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Fan Expo Canada<\/a> ran this past weekend in Toronto, Canada. While it wasn’t as dynamic a weekend for news as San Diego Comic Con<\/a>, there were at least 5 big news nuggets that you have got to know about. <\/p>\n

Interesting times ahead as we march to toward the Baltimore Comic Con<\/a> on September 8 and 9th, plus the New York Comic Con<\/a> on October 11th through the 14th. <\/p>\n

Check out the Fan Expo Canada 5 big news stories with a bit of analysis below. <\/p>\n

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5. Dark Avengers Gets Marvel Now’d (Marvel Comics)<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Marvel Now!<\/a> appears to be Marvel Comics answer to DC Comics’ successful New 52 relaunch<\/a>. While the DC New 52 was a hard reboot of its in-story continuity and its publishing line, Marvel’s efforts are more of a rebranding and relaunch of retooled characters and familiar team names.<\/p>\n

With that, we get a brand new team and take for Dark Avengers with December’s #184. This follows the recent morphing of the Thunderbolts series into Dark Avengers at the recent milestone #175 issue. <\/p>\n

<\/a>I was quite a huge fan of the Thunderbolts back in the day as Marvel’s answer to DC Comics’ classic Suicide Squad (one of my all time favorite 1980s series). It was a cool concept of villains masquerading as heroes and eventually becoming anti-heroes in their own right. Citizen V was a compelling leader followed later by Hawkeye, Marvel’s classic reformed villain as hero. <\/p>\n

USAgent joins Dark Avengers in December 2012’s #184. I’ve been a huge fan of the character, if not the name “USAgent”, since his part in the classic “Captain” arc of Captain America. If I can’t have Hawkeye, in his classic costume, or Citizen V back on a anti-hero team like Thunderbolts-turned-Dark-Avengers, then I’ll gladly take USAgent.<\/p>\n

Who will be on the team? Moonstone appears to be on the team with a variation of the current Captain Marvel costume, but we’ll have to wait to find out more about the next new chapter in the Jeff Parker written and Neil Edwards drawn Dark Avengers.<\/p>\n

Who do you want on the Dark Avengers? My picks would be: USAgent, the trio of Marvel’s original reformed villains in Hawkeye, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, alongside Moonstone, Atlas and Fixer, with Ares, Mister Hyde, Venom (Flash Thompson), with maybe Spidey villains Chameleon or Mysterio. However, many of these character are already spoken for in Marvel Now, so we’ll just have to wait and see.<\/p>\n

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4. Justice League’s Shazam and Super-Love (DC Comics)<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

<\/a>The Power of Shazam:<\/span><\/strong> I know this is kind of cheating, but I LOVED this Shazam-related variant cover reveal for Justice League #0 earlier last week (just one day before the Fan Expo opened its doors). <\/p>\n

Writer Geoff Johns has been spinning an intriguing yarn<\/a> in the back-half co-feature of his chart topping Justice League series with Shazam. The Shazam puzzle pieces were also peppered about<\/a> in DC Comics’ recent Free Comic BooK Day (FCBD) 2012 issue. Gary Frank’s art has been top notch too! (As an aside, I recently picked up the trade paperback collection of JMS and Gary Frank’s Midnight Nation from Image Comics’ Top Cow. I read a few issues back in the day, but can’t wait to read the whole thing now.)<\/p>\n

Justice League #0 focuses on Billy Batson and the Power of Shazam. The variant cover by Ivan Reis and Joe Prado is a great image that pulls together the story so far and what I expect will be in the zero month issue. I’m really looking forward to see what happens next!<\/p>\n

It was also cool to get a better look at Black Adam in the recent Justice League #11 co-feature since he’s to play a leading role it seems in the upcoming DC Comics event: Trinity War.<\/p>\n

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<\/center>The Power of Love:<\/span><\/strong> It was also right before Fan Expo last week that DC Comics revealed that this week’s Justice League #12 will unveil the budding romance of Superman and Wonder Woman. That might make things awkward for Wonder Woman’s ex and current storytline captive Steve Trevor and for Superman’s current squeeze in his own Superman series: Lois Lane’s sister Lucy. Superman = Super Playa?<\/p>\n

<\/a>This is not a gimmick, writer Geoff Johns notes, but the new status quo for these two characters, well at least for 2013.<\/p>\n

Entertainment Weekly even had an excerpt from Lois Lane’s diary<\/a> to describe how she feels about this. That passage includes the following:<\/p>\n