i'm okay with Spider-Man, The Avengers, the X-Men, and the FF never interacting (especially FF/Avengers, since it'd be pretty hard for Cap and Johnny to interact without some serious weirdness), but I do wish that S.H.I.E.L.D. could at least cross the streams. I always liked Fury's interactions in the X-Men books I read. Though since they've pretty much given up on the Modern-era X-Men (and unfortunately probably the old-era too, I think, since First Class didn't do so well) I guess it's a moot point.

Balls. The guys who wrote Green Lantern (that masterpiece of screenwriting) have been hired to write Wonder Woman. Seriously? [link]

Um, I believe many of you will want this Son of Coul shirt.

unfortunately probably the old-era too

That's contradicted by the announcement of its release date in July 2014.

I think it is weird for so many of those groups to be bopping around New York and never bump into each other, especially considering it feels like every non-mutant in the universe has been an Avenger at one time or another.

I've heard mutterings about a F4 reboot, which would make the Johnny issue moot.

I'm skeptical that they'd be able to improve the Reed and Sue casting enough to counterbalance what they'd lose without Chiklis and Evans as Ben and Johnny.

I'm skeptical that they'd be able to improve the Reed and Sue casting enough

They could cast my mother as Sue and I think that would be better enough to counterbalance the losses of Evans and Chiklis.

I mean, they were good, but she was much worse.

That's contradicted by the announcement of its release date in July 2014.

Really? Awesome! I had somehow missed that announcement. X-Men: First Class was my favorite in a year filled with excellent Marvel movies last year, so that's good news for me.

Really, I wish they had just set The Avengers not in New York, which I think of as Spider-Man's zone, but it's totally possible our current Peter Parker simply wasn't super yet during this particular alien invasion. After all, that movie comes out later this summer! And possibly The Lizard simply isn't a big enough deal for The Avengers to come together, since the implication of this movie was that they only come together for really big world-saving type events. The Avengers universe clearly doesn't acknowledge the existence of mutants, so I'm okay with pretending that's a whole separate continuity - I never really found the whole mutant political mess, which is so important to the X-Men stories, to make much of an impact on the other Marvel comics anyway. Though possibly I simply didn't read the right comics.

But Stark Tower is in New York. Isn't the Avengers Mansion there too?

And the Baxter Building is in NY too.

Why does Spider-Man get dibs?

There's a cute interview quote with a couple of the Avengers saying how their sequels will be awkward, because why not just call [X] if there's a big fight to be fought?

Did Stark Tower exist in the first Iron Man movies? I thought they were set in California.

Huh. A quick Wikipedia visit tells me that was all Favreau's idea, and Iron Man is usually New York in comics.

I will admit that I know absolutely nothing about comic book canon for the Avengers and Iron Man, and only a little about Spider-Man, so in my head that's his territory. Clearly, my head is wrong. But just in movie-land, The Avengers never cam near New York until this movie.