Avengers Assembled

[colonel_green]

Four scans apiece from Mighty Avengers #33 and Captain America #602.

 

 

Starting with the Mighty Avengers, they're still dealing with a cosmic cube-powered Absorbing Man.  He starts throwing punches, including one at Karla:



The ball and chain has taken the form of a cosmic cube, which Osborn and Pym both race after, leaving the rest of their teams to fight Creel. Creel hits Venom, separating him into the symbiote and the old Scorpion.




Well that was unexpected.

The fight continues...



Pym emerges, wielding the cosmic cube-ball-and-chain-thingy.  They fight for a bit, Norman is despondent at how everything is falling apart, then Loki helps him save the day and save face, the point being, I suppose, to increase his dependence on Loki.  Osborn then blames the Mighty team for prolonging the battle with their interference, and strips Walker of his rank and office has USAgent.  Pym and Cho, however, have identified Loki as being behind all this. so that game's afoot.

Over in Cap, Steve and Sharon are apparently taking some time off at her palatial Virginia home, so Nick Fury (in his first appearance in these pages in a while) calls Bucky in with news that Evil 50s Cap has been spotted in Boise, Idaho, training an army of Watchdogs.  Nick also gives Bucky an upgraded prosthetic arm that looks and feels like a real one ("Now that you're public and everything.  Plus, Natasha was whining about your cold hands.").  Not wanting to have Steve confront his malevolent doppelganger, Bucky and Sam fly to Boise to investigate.  They plan to infiltrate the Watchdogs.



Ross' art here is different from how it was in the past, which I put down to Guice inking it and even more that Frank D'Armata isn't doing the colours now.

Later, we cut to Barney's Alehouse, where Sam is posing as a tweedy IRS agent demanding to perform an audit on the owner:





I just love it when a plan comes together.

Unfortunately for them, 50s Cap (whose real name is at last revealed here) recognizes Bucky from their last meeting.

 

 

char: captain america/bucky barnes, char: falcon/sam wilson, char: hercules/marvel, char: stature/cassie lang, char: vision/jonas, char: ant-man/wasp/hank pym, char: absorbing man/crusher creel, char: moonstone/ms. marvel/karla sofen, creator: ed brubaker, creator: luke ross, creator: dan slott, creator: khoi pham, title: mighty avengers, title: captain america, publisher: marvel comics

Comments

[neuhallidae]

Nice dig at the "walls of time".

[lencannon]

Captain America versus the teabaggers. This is a comicbook I can really support.

[bradhanon]

Hell yes. Sign me up to watch THAT fight. :)

[goblinthebamf]

motto!

[proteus_lives]

Herc, Juggernaut, She-Hulk, Ben Grimm, Colossus and Molly need to have a Fastball Special contest!

Would heroes with healing factors please volunteer their services!

Or better let...

[roguefankc]

If you watched "Final Fantasy: Advent Children", a CHAIN Fastball Special. =)

Start at 3:35

I would seriously think THAT would be epic in Marvel.

Juggernaut grabs Wolverine and throws him to Herc.
Herc passes Wolverine to Ben Grimm.
Ben throws Wolverine higher into the air towards She-Hulk.
She-Hulk passes Wolvie to Colossus.
Colossus passes Wolverine to Molly being flown into the sky by Karolina.
Molly finishes it and tosses Wolverine to the big bad in the sky.

^_^

Squeenix only hurts me because I deserve it.

[twigcollins]

When your team's best idea of a plan is "throw Cloud at it," it's time to look for a new team.

Ditto on the end fight.

"This is something the captain has to do on his own."
"NO IT'S NOT.

Re: Squeenix only hurts me because I deserve it.

[majingojira]

"Mr. Piccolo, shouldn't we help him?"
"No. He wants to fight this battle on his own--"
"HELP ME! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, HELP ME--"
"Like a hero!"
"Mr. Piccolo, DO SOMETHING!"

Re: Squeenix only hurts me because I deserve it.

[akodo_rokku]

But they threw him REALLY HARD!

Re: Or better let...

[proteus_lives]

I remember that scene, truly epic.

And it would so work with the Marvel crew!

High-Five!

Re: Or better let...

[roguefankc]

*gives you a high-five* =)

[theanswer]

Moonstone is apparently not familiar with Mephistovorcing.

[geoffsebesta]

I hereby declare that a word.

[theanswer]

Mephistovorcing! :D

[mugiwara]

I'm a bit of tired of Slott prising "old school" and vomiting over today's comics.
And please tell me Vision 2.0 will be back after they defeat Creel!
If Slott wants so much to write old versions of old characters and old scholl stories, he should ask Marvel for an Avengers First Class or Avengers Forever or "Everything-was-better-before-Avengers" title.

[colonel_green]

Creel's loss resets everything.

[autolychus2]

Damn, I was hoping old-school Viz was back. Oh well, I can still dream, can't I?

[colonel_green]

While Slott is clearly a fan of the older stuff, he's written the newer characters very well in general, I've thought.

[majingojira]

I'm with you there.

[ian_karkull]

How is he vomiting over today's comics? The Vision scene illustrates the herosim and bravery of Iron Lad, an ostensibly new character. Who himself states outright that Vision 2.0 will be back and yet fights on, even though it means his own demise.

[mugiwara]

He has Stature saying that Sentry's concept is lame, Moonstone saying that "punching reality" is stupid (sure there were not stupid stuff like that back in the day). And it's not only in MA: in GLA, he has Squirrel Girl saying "remember, when comics were a place to escape, yaddah, yaddah..." (and despite that I loved GLA).

[neuhallidae]

People have been taking potshots at the whole "punching time/reality" concept ever since it was introduced. I'm not seeing the problem with that on in particular.

[kainnived.livejournal.com]

Hell Geoff Johns himself took a potshot at his own concept of time punching in Booster Gold when Rip Hunter called it the stupidest thing he ever heard.

[geoffsebesta]

but the funny thing is that the Silver Age Superman really could do it!

[okkult3000]

Sentry IS lame, and punching reality IS stupid. Science has proved these things.

[geoffsebesta]

I want to see your data.

[ian_karkull]

All of those are complaints coming from fandom itself. Heck, you can probably find them all here on one page.

Screw you!!!!

[jessebaker.livejournal.com]

Restoring OG Vision is quite frankly something that should have been done AGES AGO and quite a bit of redemption on Slott's fault, given that he was the one who helped Heinberg give the middle finger to Vision fans by telling them that OG Vision was dead and buried and never coming back (something even BENDIS refused to do, as far as writing YA Vision like he was original gangster Vision).

And quite frankly, this puts us one step closer of purging Young Avengers from existence, like the abortion that it always was... Bring on turning Wiccan and Lil' Quicksilver back into babies, depowering Cassie, and killing Hulkling and the newly reconstituted Lil' Iron Man off in graphic fashion so as to leave Patriot and Kate Bishop (the only GOOD characters to come out of the farce) as the last heroes standing and folded into one of the many Avengers books.

Re: Screw you!!!!

[icon_uk]

There's hardly the need for bad language, especially directed at a fellow poster.

Re: Screw you!!!!

[okkult3000]

... when the frog asked the scorpion why it stung him, even though it meant they would both drown, the scorpion replied "It's what I do."

Re: Screw you!!!!

[halloweenjack]

I take it that I'm not the only one here that's already familiar with the wit and wisdom of Jesse Baker.

Re: Screw you!!!!

[colonel_green]

The split wasn't permanent; it, like all the others, was reversed when the Absorbing Man was defeated.

[sailorlibra]

I so love Herc here.

[autolychus2]

I can't believe I'm nine posts in and no one has mentioned, "I've been 'reality punched?' That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of."

Well, it made me chuckle.

[skund]

I was also amused.

[yaseen101]

I was also similarly amused.

[glprime]

Cripes but I hate whiners about taxes. All that crap about there not being an actual Constitutional basis and it's not a real law. Yes, it is. Sixteenth Amendment. Yes, it was properly ratified. In 1913. Even if it wasn't, there would still be income taxes levied by the states.

There's been an income tax since 1862. It is a hella old concept; NO you can't stop paying it!

[lonewolf23k]

Can we object to getting TOO much of our income taken by taxes, and then spent any which way the Government wants? I'm from Quebec, and in my province we're amongst the most heavily taxed people in North America, with nearly up to half of our income collected by income tax, and then what's left also has to get eaten up by Sales and Good taxes on both the National and Provincial level...

But honestly, what annoys me of that panel is that it suggests that Teabaggers are made up entirely of "Angry White Racist Rednecks". There are plenty of Black Teabaggers, ( http://wakeupblackamerica.blogspot.com/2010/01/mr-tingles-stuck-his-foot-in-his-mouth.html )

[neuhallidae]

Did you happen to look where the rally was being held in the comic? Boise isn't exactly the biggest population 'o black people in the entire country. I think the last census had the black population at being less than one percent of the entire state, and that held true for the Boise population as well.

[glprime]

Of course a citizen can object to how much they're taxed and where the taxes go, but I've got local yokels (I'm in North Texas) trying to claim they shouldn't have to pay ANY taxes.

And I'm like, "sure, so all our highways will turn to pothole minefields and our schools can be even further down the national average thanks to less money injected."

[darkblade]

Considering that Quebec has pretty much the highest standard of living out of all the Canadian provinces thanks to Provincial Government services paid for by those taxes. Yes you can but I will glare at you for it.

[lonewolf23k]

Oh yeah, we Quebecois just have it peachy.. ...Our hospitals are understaffed and overcrowded, our public schools focus more on teaching kids how to be politically drones then learning Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, our highways are full of potholes, our viaducts are crumbling all over the place, our provincial debt is going through the rough and the province's budget is through the roof...

But according to national polls, we have the highest standard of living of all the Canadian provinces apparently.

Jesus Christ, what's going on in those other Provinces?!

[darkblade]

1) Hosiptals everywhere in the world are understaffed and overcrowded. It's a simple matter that there are not enough nurses and Doctors per sick person.

2) From what I have seen of the Quebec cuicrulem at a High School level and what I have gathered from a college aged family based on their courses. There is nothing drone like at all about Quebec schools. It honestly encourages free thinking.

3) I have no idea about your roads or viaducts so no comment there.

[lonewolf23k]

"Encourages Free Thinking"? Hardly. It pushes a belief system based on lack of discipline and direction, where actually useful skills, like orthograph and mathematics, are neglected in favor of teaching happy little aesops about acceptance and tolerance, and about "learning for one's self".

As a result, ever since the reform was put into place in the early 2000s, school test results have been plummeting like rocks, while drop-out rates have risen. And those kids who DO complete their gradeschool and high school education seldom have the skills they need to move on to college or university.

[kenn_el]

Not every old concept is worth keeping. Slavery, for example. Still, I'm happy to pay my taxes. And since Ed's decided to use the Captain America comic as his propaganda venue, the money I used to spend on the book will go to the Government, while I work to change who that Government is. Another hella concept for you: change by way of elections.

[ian_karkull]

Realitypunched? Poor Karla, this stint with the Fake Avengers is turning out worse than anything that happened when she was with The Masters Of Evil.

[alcimines.livejournal.com]

*Reads the Captain American stuff*

Well, I'm glad to see that in a world filled with terrorism, organized crime, street gangs, serial killers, and massive disasters, the writers at Marvel are actually taking a stand against those citizens who disagree with the government's fiscal policy.

[icon_uk]

Calvin: "I've noticed that comic book superheroes usually fight evil maniacs with grandiose plans to destroy the world. Why don't superheroes go after more subtle, realistic bad guys?"
Hobbes "Yeah, the superhero could attend council meetings and write letters to the editor, and stuff."
Calvin "Hmmm... I think I see the problem."
Hobbes "Quick! To the Bat-Fax!"

As boring as it may be...

[roguefankc]

I would actually prefer reading that sort of scenario as opposed to BND/OMD for Spider-Man.

[okkult3000]

Yes, the writers at Marvel really should worry more about all those fictional problems in their fictional universe before they turn their attention to fictional fiscal irresponsibility in a fictional government.

[alcimines.livejournal.com]

Next issue: Cap takes on the awesome threat of tooth decay!

[darkblade]

Actually I think there was a mini-comic exactly like that licensed by some dental organization a while back.

[alcimines.livejournal.com]

You know, now that I think about it, I do vaguely remember something along those lines...

[kainnived.livejournal.com]

I haven't been t the comicbook store this week, but John Walker's had his USAgency... yeah that works.... revoked? Man, he can't be taking that well.

[freezer]

How does Osborn even have the authority to do that? Isn't Walker under direct command of the Armed Forces? Or does Osborn's authority span the entire Department of Defense?

[kainnived.livejournal.com]

HAMMER's authority is ill defined. Last time I checked (Which was in Civil War) Walker anwsered to the Commission on Superhuman Activities... which I believe was a branch of the Department of Defense (probably the Department of Homeland Security post 9/11) HAMMER seems to have taken the place of both SHIELD (which was technically a United Nations organization) and the Department of Homeland Security. With practically no oversight.

Last I knew the CoSA put Walker on Omega Flight in Canada as a sort of Liaison Officer between the Canada's Department H and the CoSA because he wasn't comfortable opposing Captain America in the Civil War even if he did want to abide by the Superhuman Registration Act

Of course he had no problem politly resigning from Omega Flight when the Avengers came calling

[darkblade]

No one wants to be on Omega Flight it was a bad idea from start to finish.

If anything...

[roguefankc]

Maybe this will break him out of his "hero-worship" for Osborn.

Which didn't make much sense to begin with, but hey, maybe this dose of reality will have him wake up and realize, "You know what? Osborn is evil!"

[autumn_lily]

I like how random the whole 'tea-bag' sign is!

[neuhallidae]