Time for some Avenging, in a darker style. Maybe. It might be time for a big detour that doesn’t seem like it should be this, or any, team’s first outing. We begin…
Tag: Moonstone
New Avengers 50
Some tiny heads in there. How’s the back cover look? Not too good! As with any anniversary numbered issue, Bendis makes this a jam comic, which means 2 things: 1. In addition…
Dark Avengers 1/Invincible Iron Man 8&9
We’re back to Avengers land. And just in time for Dark Reign, the story of Norman Osborn given near absolute power by the US government. Which is… a lot more messed up…
Secret Invasion 2
Ok, we’re back in the Savage Land, and over a series of 2-pagers, the heroes who just poured out of that ship and the 2 Avengers teams size each other up. And…
Secret Invasion 1
We’re finally here. There are a lot of covers during this event that are classic covers with the characters replaced with Skrulls, starting with this one, obviously New Avengers 1. As I…
Civil War: Epilogue
Yeah, I made my own epilogue out of 4 comics. What an industrious block of posts for me. Now that the smoke has cleared, there’s a few more things to see. To…
Trial of Venom
The Trial of Venom! I’ve never read it, but I used to wonder about it a lot! This comic was a mail order exclusive to benefit UNICEF. I don’t think it ever…
SMTU 7
The Thunderbolts! This was a fun gimmick with an extremely short shelf-life. When the Avengers and the FF seemed to die at the end of Onslaught (To go star in rebooted series…
Avengers 237
Christie Scheele tags in on colors this month. That is one funny looking Rhino. Not as funny as he looked on the 60s cartoon, but close! This splash is also very funny:…
Avengers 236
Welcome back to 1983! One last time! The end of this block will also mean the end of Roger Stern & John Romita, Jr.’s time on ASM. A sad era to run…