{"id":28974,"date":"2025-10-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=28974"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:28:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:28:19","slug":"new-avengers-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/10\/23\/new-avengers-20\/","title":{"rendered":"New Avengers 20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alright, big finish. I am running this page for a single reason:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And that is to make fun of someone who holds a pencil for a living doing such a bad job of drawing someone holding a pencil. I am petty, I suppose, but look at that. Sheesh. Well, anyway, Mikey is there, and he\u2019s expelling all the energy he absorbed, and the President is urging Maria Hill to nuke Genosha, and here I must stop to wonder\u2026 what\u2019s the deal with SHIELD? They\u2019re often positioned as an international organization, but they\u2019ve always answered to the US President. And that is a suitably self-absorbed portrayal of the US, I guess, but, like, for real, how can George W. Bush authorize the destruction of land he doesn\u2019t own? Not that he wouldn\u2019t, gleefully, and then paint about it 20 years later, but you know what I mean. Anyway, the Avengers are there, and sort of recapping at each other, which you don\u2019t see much anymore. Carol says Genosha is a tomb, no one\u2019s alive there, but Wolverine says there\u2019s one person there, as he well knows from coming and beating him up in House of M 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aw, jeez, how did I forget this particular twist? So\u2026 So in Grant Morrison\u2019s X-Men, the team rescued a mutant named Xorn from some bad guys, and his rather absurd mutant power was he had a star in his brain, so he wore this special helmet to keep his head together. And then, years later, he was revealed to be Magneto in disguise, which was really silly and disappointing. And then Wolverine killed Magneto, but of course he wasn\u2019t really dead, and then a different writer introduced Zorn, the brother of Xorn, who was, like, a totally real guy who Magneto took the place of, and now Xorn, who was real or not real or WHO REALLY CARES is the one driving the Collective energy cloud. The general absurdities around Xorn left\u00a0 many readers feeling burned by the whole thing and preferring to just get on with their lives, and now this happens. Well, anyway, as the Avengers react and try to decide what to do, the Collective raises Magneto an army of mutant zombies. Which is\u2026 something. So the Avenger start fightin\u2019 the zombies, and Magneto is visibly not on board with any of this, and Sentry offers to throw him into the sun, which by now is a running gag in comics after he did it to Carnage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hard for me to imagine that was Cap\u2019s reason for calling in Daisy to begin with. Seems out of character. But, then, this story is kind of a mess. So Sentry gets ahold of Magneto, who begs Sentry to kill him, saying they can\u2019t let this happen to him, and then Daisy does her thing, maybe killing Magneto, maybe not, hard to tell, and then Iron Man makes a big blue ball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So Bob flies the ball into the sun, and he watches as it percolates and stuff, and it\u2019s honestly hard to tell what we\u2019re meant to be seeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Iron Man tells Michael it wasn\u2019t his fault, which Wolverine is super-keen on not agreeing with that. We quickly, like super quickly, learn Michael has retained some of the energy, SHIELD says they\u2019re going to start training him, and Cage says maybe they just got a new superhero out of all this. And that hurried page is a breadcrumb trail to OMEGA FLIGHT, coming soon, written by Bendis\u2019 good friend Michael Avon Oeming, revealing that two members of Alpha Flight didn\u2019t die, and starring Michael there as the new Guardian. Yes. It’s Alpha Flight Disassembled. Whomp whomp.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Make a mental note of Hill saying \u201cDid you ever see\u2013?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And that\u2019s the unsatisfying end of that unsatisfying story. I love that last page acting like something profound was in Magneto\u2019s book. He wrote one page! We saw him doing it! It happened 20 minutes ago!\u00a0 Well, anyway, there you go. A messy story with messy art and a messy non-resolution. Not New Avengers\u2019 finest hour. But by the time this issue saw print, the whole Marvel Universe was onto something else, which we are now barreling toward at top speed. 6 posts away, in fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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