{"id":28937,"date":"2025-10-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=28937"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:29:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:29:08","slug":"new-avengers-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/10\/20\/new-avengers-17\/","title":{"rendered":"New Avengers 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As Steve McNiven and Co are called away to greener pastures, enter Mike Deodato, Jr. and his trusty inker, Joe Pimentel. With Dave Stewart on colors, they\u2019ll complete this storyline. Sadly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You think those kids were really meant to be that young? With dialogue like that? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Swipe Deodato, Jr. hits the ground running with a pretty widely distributed John Romita, Sr. Captain America. Over 2 pages, we see the Avengers just helping a community. Luke runs off some drug dealers, Spider-Man helps a lady get into her car, some school kids gawk at Captain America, a bunch of things. Then a news van shows up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Deodato copying Finch\u2019s wildly incorrect Iron Man mask is very funny to me. This sequence, I think, hasn\u2019t aged well. The concept of Luke Cage wanting to clean up his community is nice and all, but I think a man like Cage would understand that improving your community is about more than scaring people. People don\u2019t just rob each other and \u201cprostitute themselves\u201d and sell drugs and whatnot for fun. Cage, more than most superheroes, would be well acquainted with the underlying socio-economic conditions. In a way that, frankly, Bendis probably was not. But I think this book is a snapshot of the final years when \u201cgood people\u201d could pretend crime was caused by \u201cbad people\u201d and not by low wages, lack of opportunity and urban decay. Also, unrelated, it\u2019s weird how much more solid Deodato & Pimentel\u2019s art looks here than it did just the month before in ASM. In addition to the swiping and the celebrity tracing, his work put me off due to how sketchy and unfinished it looked, but this feels more complete. Which seems really counterintuitive given he wasn\u2019t even planning to draw this book and this must\u2019ve been a rush job. Anyway! The heroes are briefed by Hill in their plane, and she shows them footage of Alpha Flight getting wrecked by the mystery villain. We see said villain has already reached a human population, and it\u2019s too late to evacuate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This notion of a superhero who can\u2019t get out of bed some days could be interesting, but it doesn\u2019t end up feeling terribly good. But, hey, Spider-Man gets to go do the Reed Richards part of the story. Iron Man lets us know we\u2019re in Cleveland, Ohio, where Bendis is from, as he tells Hill he\u2019s cross referenced the guy against all known energy signatures in he & Reed\u2019s data, and got nothing. With people on the line, he decides to try to make peaceful contact alone. Tony actually gets the baddie to stop, which hasn\u2019t happened since he touched down, and gets him to laboriously say his name is Michael. Tony asks why he\u2019s hurting people and where he\u2019s going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ain\u2019t that always the way?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carol is shot out of that big energy surge and into a warehouse somewheres, barely avoiding Iron Man. But\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once upon a time, in X-Men, Carol went to space, developed a bunch of new powers and hung out with some space pirates with her head constantly on fire under the codename \u201cBinary\u201d for awhile. Kinda looks like that may be coming back\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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