Agent Coulson to be in Avengers TV series!

Good.

Clark Gregg, who played the dutiful S.H.I.E.L.D. agent in summer blockbuster “The Avengers,” will appear in Joss Whedon’s upcoming ABC TV pilot about the secret government agency.

I know what some of you are thinking (but will not write, because of SPOILERS); to which I reply, Screw that.  Nodwick’s right: this is why Coulson’s the dude.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QAMgkpQYOSQ#!

This is not going to be the most egregious thing ever explained away in comic book-land, frankly.  It’s not even going to be in the top thousand, so there.