I mean, haven’t enough of them died already? Jack of Hearts came back and re-died, Ant-Man died, Vision died as much as an android can. And a few of the non-dead ones are in critical condition. The carnage! Well, inside, the 2-page splash at the end of last issue is now a big panel in a 2-page spread where Nick Fury tells the assembled Avengers and former Avengers that they’re tainting a crime scene and they need to leave immediately.
Carol and Scott were close.
Bendis with a VERY in-character Hawkeye. There’s so much stuff randomly happening in these issues that you don’t get much of a sense of his take on most of the characters, but he knows Clint.
Hey, Spider-Man got a line. That is the first fighter in a Kree battle fleet, which begins attacking immediately without preamble. What a day, huh? Whoever Fury’s on the phone with still sees no evidence of these ships as the Avengers scramble to fight off an alien invasion on top of the rest of their day. As battle is joined, Spider-Man finds himself teamed up with his old kind of pal, Hercules, longtime Avenger, last seen around here I guess in Juggernaut: The Eighth Day, maybe? Or that Spider-Man Team-Up story, one or the other.
By the way, all props to Dave Finch for his regular and Ultimate Spider-Men having different eyes on the mask. Like I said, most people don’t even think about it, but he did, and that’s cool.
A ton of Kree soldiers beam down, and between zaps, Fury points out that the Kree fleet has them at a complete tactical disadvantage, and it doesn’t make any sense for them to deploy ground troops. Then Hawkeye gets a big heroic re-entrance.
Well, I guess Bendis’ great take on Hawkeye isn’t gonna come in handy. “Not like this!” became a pretty inescapable punchline on the comics internet after this. Cap rallies the troops, but, having killed Hawkeye, the Kree immediately turn around and leave. Just like that. Everyone’s still in shock when someone off-panel says he tried to get there sooner…
And still, B said, no one had guessed the villain, despite almost everyone saying it was Wanda. But then, who is it? This month, Spider-Man also appeared in Daredevil 65, another of Bendis’ beloved “jam issues” where a ton of artists draw the book, like USM Super Special. But the Spider-Man section is just Peter telling MJ what happened in DD 25, with very little additional incident and worse art. I didn’t feel like that warranted a post, but I did want to at least mention it.