Week of 11/25/09 – New Avengers #59
November 27th, 2009
What does Luke Cage look like?!?! Ok, that was my first and last Pulp Fiction reference. Promise. In the land of the Marvel U there are three Avengers teams. By all accounts the new avengers are probably ranked three of three. But when it’s clubhouse leader Luke Cage gets captured by Mister Norman Osborne the call goes out for a rescue team. Look who answers.
When the New Avengers launched 59 issues ago I was down with it. I was on board with the soft reboot of the franchise. Adding Spidey and Wolverine? I’m down. Attempting to recruit Daredevil and getting rejected? I love it. Who remembers 40 issues ago when Luke Cage insisted on taking the effing Avengers to bad hoods in urban areas and just cleaning ‘em up? I was so behind that writing I couldn’t believe it.
But then Civil War happened. And Secret Invasion. Now it feels like every three issues the underground New Avengers team up with someone government sanctioned and when the dust settles it’s all “We’ll let you guys walk… THIS time.” I’m just so ready for there to be one Avengers team again.
And it’s not just because I hate Deodato on Dark Avengers or I can’t take Pym seriously as a leader in Mighty. To me the avengers are Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, and Thor. End of story. I think Marvel knows it too. Thus, Siege. Y’know?
Screw it, let’s talk my all time pro-bowl Avengers line-up. Cap, Iron Man, Thor, Luke Cage (for a moral center), Iron Fist, Puck (retcon him back to life somehow), and let’s say Canonball. Yeah. You like that? It’s got gods, super soldiers, kung fu masters, mystical connections, and a link to the mutant community. Total package.
Honorable Mentions
Now this panel here. This panel. This panel didn’t make Panel of the Week mostly because the sizing didn’t fit the format too well. But for those who didn’t pick up Ultimate Comics Avengers #4 this is Nerd Hulk. A clone of Bruce Banner who can hulk out but remain intelligent. When he’s tasked to take down Captain America this is what happens. Cap kicks him in the junk. God bless you Mark Millar.
Mirage Studios is 25 years old this year. One of the things they did to celebrate is to re-release TMNT #1 but this time in color. Here are the boys after taking down the Shredder. Yeah, in issue one.
DC is doing a great job retelling Superman’s origin in Superman: Secret Origin. In the third issue Clark Kent gets introduced to Metropolis, the Daily Planet, and of course, Lois Lane.
Finally, in Wolverine #80 Woverine’s son, Daken, engineers his own return to media grace by saving a baby from an explosion that he caused. Diabolical. In a related note, NO ONE CARES ABOUT THE CHARACTER DAKEN. Please make him casulaty of Osborn’s downfall. Please. But Stephen Segovia does a pretty good job on the pencils.
