{"id":28922,"date":"2025-10-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=28922"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:29:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:29:16","slug":"new-avengers-17-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/10\/19\/new-avengers-17-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Avengers 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well, now it\u2019s unfortunately time for the first real clunker of a New Avengers story. Nothing\u2019s perfect, after all. Steve McNiven, Dexter Vines and Morry Hollowell return as artists\u2026 for this issue\u2026 and Hollowell suffers the indignity of not even getting on the credits page. There\u2019s no credited inker inside, but at least he got his name on the cover. Highly unusual for a colorist to get cover credit in this era, but these 3 guys are a team, so maybe they negotiated it that way. As color artists are starting to have a much more dramatic effect on the published product, a cover credit seems only fair, but it\u2019s still years away from being routine. This issue begins with a ridiculous 4 splash pages showing the energy surge released after House of M crashing down out of space and into North Pole, Alaska, followed by a 2-page splash of the devastation it wrought. Then this\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For those playing along at home, that\u2019s 7 panels in 8 pages to show us this guy getting zapped. Pretty self-indulgent. Meanwhile or later or something, Maria Hill, Director of SHIELD, takes a video call from Tony Stark. She seems mad he made the New Avengers public, but that\u2019s not what she wants to talk about. She wants to talk about the House of M. Which she calls that, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cEileen Harsaw\u201d was one I had to look up. She\u2019s one of the parade of generic, lame mutants Rob Leifeld made up on X-Force called \u201cPhantazia.\u201d Apparently not anymore, though. The red alert is what happened i Alaska. Hill gets briefed on how the entire town was wiped out, and they get eyes on the flamin\u2019 guy via some agents in the area, but he sees them from 22 miles away and the line goes dead. Hill is scrambling for someone to send out there, and remembers Canada\u2019s premiere super team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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See, even they call themselves that. I didn\u2019t even remember that was coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bendis jobbing all of Alpha Flight out to this new threat caused quite a bit of uproar. On the one hand, it\u2019s just Alpha Flight, but on the other hand, the guy who did Avengers Disassembled destroying a Claremont\/Byrne creation from the golden era of X-Men didn\u2019t go over well. But it\u2019s comics, most if not all the characters on this spread are alive now. There follows a spread where the President of the United States tells Hill to get the Avengers on this, and she tries not to because she doesn\u2019t like them, but she\u2019s overruled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This art team was meant to handle this whole story, but they got pulled to do the event we\u2019re rapidly approaching that really will Change Everything. So next issue, a familiar name returns to the blog far sooner than I\u2019d personally prefer\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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