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.

[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!

[theanswer]

Moonstone is apparently not familiar with Mephistovorcing.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[autolychus2]

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

[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 )

[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.

[bradhanon]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

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!!!!

[colonel_green]

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

[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!"

[skund]

I was also amused.

[okkult3000]

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