Premise: H.A.M.M.E.R. has been toppeled and the U.N. finally stands up and reestablishes S.H.I.E.L.D as the premier espionage in the world. Tired of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s actions being determind by the U.S. government. For along time this series will be taking place outside of the U.S. taking down threats to humanity world wide. The team will be customized for each mission you will only ever see half the team active in the field at a time, personell selections will be made for highest suitability for the individual missions.
G.W. Bridge (directer not on the team)
S.H.I.E.L.D. needs a head director, with Osborn, Stark, Hill, and Fury all on the oust, and all of the major S.H.I.E.L.D. bigwigs gone awol, The U.N. turns to Bridge. He is one of the most persistent and relentless men in the MU making him a perfect fit for the job. Not to mention he already has experience being the Director. He signs on because he needs something to do with his life, the man is a hunter with nothing to hunt, taking this position again gives him something to hunt.
Clay Quartermain (handler)
One of very few senior S.H.I.E.L.D. agents willing to re en-list, this is a man who has constantly been living in Fury's shadow, and with Fury out of the picture Quartermain will finally get his chance to shine
Ant-Man (stealth expert)
everyone was pleasently surprised how Eric turned out despite his enrollment in the Thunderbolts. He's gained enough confidence and experience to be a stealth expert to be reckoned with, using a left over Iron-Spider costume the S.H.I.E.L.D. tech devision gives his suit an update giving him camoflauge and invisibility capabilities further adding to his adeptness at being a sneaky son of a *****. Oh and yes, he's still an Irredeemable douchebag
Deathlok (demolitions expert)
One of those classic trying to reclaim his humanity type characters. S.H.I.E.L.D. gives him some reconstructive surgery too atleast give him his old face back. But he's still a cyborg he feels he can't fit in with humanity, so he joins up with S.H.I.E.L.D. to aleast make himself useful to the humanity he strives for. Plus if you need a room cleared if any and all Hydra/Aim/Hand goons this is the guy you want to do it in MIchael-Bay-ian fashion
Robbie Rider (communications expert)
After being scared out of the Nova Corp's in the fallout of the War of Kings, Robbie returns home in hopes to regain his old life. Only to find P.E.G.A.S.U.S. dismantled, so after reaching out to his old contact's he gets set-up with a desk-job with S.H.I.E.L.D. in his initiation interview he displays vast knowledge in military warfare, technology, extra-human relations, combat strategies, and even a surprisingly adept display of physical prowess all courtesy of his prolonged exposure to the Xandarian worldmind. Not wanting to waste such a resource they recruit him into their premier team to be the lead strategist. S.W.O.R.D. is going to be constantly trying to cherry pick him from S.H.I.E.L.D. and he find's it very tempting, but he's got some anxieties about space now after being involved in a major cosmic war causing him to stay grounded.
Hellcat (Femme Fatale)
feelin stilted after being ditched in Alaska by the initiative and hearing that they're restarting S.H.I.E.L.D. So she decides to do what she does best to get herself a position she feels she deserves. She does everything she can to annoy the S.H.I.E.L.D. bigwigs into giving her a job. Naturally it doesn't work so she reaches out to Daimon Hellstorm her ex-husband to scare the **** out of her recruiter and force them to hire her. Nobody is happy about her being here except Patsy, but Bridge is going to make damn sure she earns it.
Devil-Slayer (MAX version wedged into continuity military expert)
The teams grizzled war veteran, he's here because alot of people see some shades of Nick Fury in him from when he was a soldier in WW2. He brings in the mysterious bad-*** angle a great visual and the oppurtunity to mix spies and demons.
Jennifer Kale (Mystic expert)
The cost of having someone like Devil-Slayer on the team comes with the heightened chance that they'll have to deal with some serious mystical mojo, and the Devil-Slayer is great in a pinch, but they'll need some back up, and in her first useful act Hellcat uses her old Defenders connections and gets Jennifer to join up as a divisional ambassador from A.R.M.O.R.
Union Jack (proper spy)
Quartermain gets this guy on loan from MI6 in britain, he's not exactly happy to be here, but he'll be damned if he's not going to get the job done. This guy brings the in a more traditional super-spy flavour. His involvement will inevitably lead to a run-in with MI13 and Pete Wisdom's crew
Black Widow (assasination expert)
Yelena Belova, quite possibly the deadliest woman in the world. Seeing her as much more valuable on the side of angels than as a rogue agent, S.H.I.E.L.D. retains her sevices from her service as Thunderbolts leader. She's a force to be reckoned with and you don't want to get on her bad-side.
First Arc: Espionage 101 (in 4-parts) the first arc will be a very "let's get the team together" kinda story. Moving the chess pieces around and introducing the readers to the individual characters. Introduce The Son of the Mandarin as the big bad for the foreseeable future of the book by having him seize control of Madripoor. Plus a quick mission to the Savage Land to retrieve the Rock of Life from Stegron and his dinosaur horde.
Second arc: The Heir to the Mandarin's Throne (a.k.a The New Secret War) (in 12 parts)
Eventually every son must step out of the shadow of his father and strike out to make a name for himself. After studying his fathers actions in his wars against Tony Stark Temugin finally feels that now is the time to strike at the world and make his mark. After seizing control of Madripoor Tem quickly goes about drastically expanding his empire, but he has no generals or underlings, no one to betray him, and the thing is the people in the regions he's conquering adore him. A world super-power has sprung-up seemingly over night, and he is strictly not on the side of angels, providing weapons and safe havens to tyrants asnd terrorists alike. There is nothing legally that the U.S. or U.N. can do. So S.H.I.E.L.D. dispatches their premier team silently off the coast of Madripoor and provides them with a reverse engineered Shockwave Rider with invisibility capabilities. The teams mission should they choose to follow it is too overthrow this new world power by any means necessary, but it can in absolutley no-way lead back to S.H.I.E.L.D.
Death, Intrigue, Love, Betrayal, Action, Seduction, Explosions, and a scene where Ant-Man unshrinks himself from inside a corrupt politician.
All will be found in the pages of "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
written by Paul Cornell
art by Michael Lark
Except when it's not.
