Very touchy this month. This issue gets rolling with Spider-Man tricking the Corruptor into crashing into a water tower. Ok, I had to look it up. I knew that guy’s name was…
Tag: Iron Man
New Avengers 06
Time to wrap up this team’s first adventure. We open on Spider-Woman yelling at Yelena from the distance that she’s really messing up, that Spider-Woman is a Level 7 SHIELD agent, that…
New Avengers 05
The way Jim Lee and his followers insist muscular men have these deformed, huge wrists is very funny to me. Like it’s Lee making a peculiar drawing choice, and then a literal…
New Avengers 04
“Why don’t women read comics? We just don’t know!” This month begins with Jessica Drew arriving at Stark Tower as Tony is talking to Maria Hill, acting head of SHIELD after what…
New Avengers 03
There he is, Marvel’s Superman. Or as close as he’s ever gonna get to it, at least. Well, we open on the SHIELD helicarrier early the next morning. Cap and Iron Man…
New Avengers 02
That’s a strong composition on that cover. Well. We’re right at the end of last issue. Spidey and Cap see Electro take his still-unseen passenger out of the prison on a wave…
TAC V2 20
Is it just me or does the Spectacular Spider-Spider have at least 10 legs in this cover drawing? Paco Medina has drawn the short straw and must bring this absolutely insane story…
TAC V2 19
So, like, with the “prologue” part, this is a 6-issue story. Pretty typical of its day, and most days to follow. So why does it have 3 different artists? That doesn’t feel…
Avengers 503 & Finale
Big finish! Yes, really, this story is only 4 issues. Just maximum carnage in minimal space. It opens with a flashback drawn by Olivier Coipel. Real “pre-2012 depictions of women in comics”…
Avengers 502
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…