{"id":31975,"date":"2026-05-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=31975"},"modified":"2024-07-09T09:59:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T13:59:46","slug":"mighty-avengers-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2026\/05\/19\/mighty-avengers-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Mighty Avengers 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tie-ins kept on rollin\u2019 this month. In addition to the other ones, a 3-issue Thor tie-in began, featuring Thor and Beta Ray Bill vs. a Skrull invasion of Asgard and written by Matt Fraction. Matt had been doing these great Thor side gigs around Straczynski\u2019s main series, and he had me and others wishing he would get the main series. He did eventually, but it took a long time. This month\u2019s New Avengers cover spotlights one of the most interesting bits of Marvel lore to me. From the 50s through the early 60s, Marvel\u2019s bread & butter was generic monster and scifi comics. The FF debuted in 1961, but it was a slow roll out for their return to superheroes, so the FF, then Hulk and Spider-Man and Thor and so on, were being published alongside the generic monster and scifi comics (And even in their series, in the case of Spidey and Thor). So in 1962, 8 months before Spider-Man\u2019s debut, there was a scifi short story about a scientist who shrunk down and got trapped in an anthill. And by 1963, someone remembered him and decided to make him Ant-Man. Hank Pym wasn\u2019t really part of the Marvel U in his first appearance in Tales to Astonish 27, and I think that\u2019s kinda fun. Andy Lanning assists Danny Miki on inks, but this is otherwise the team that did the Sentry and Elektra issues. And that means it\u2019s time for weird, weird Khoi Pham faces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hankskrull wants to tell the Queen their invasion is going to fail, that the human race is smarter and more resilient than they\u2019ve given it credit for. Dum Dum Skrull says this is Hank Pym talking, not the Skrull pretending to be him, but Hank Skrull insists their current best bet is a \u201cviolent stalemate,\u201d noting rumor has it Thor is alive again, that Nick Fury is still at large, and that no one knows where Scarlet Witch is. Also there are some truly baffling faces along the way. Dum Dum escorts Hank outside, then they blow up the diner. Then Hank tries to go AWOL.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Skrulls keep after him, some of them reverting to their normal forms to use their shapeshifting power against him to Dum Dum\u2019s consternation, and eventually they trap him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This confuses me because the Hank they killed was identified as Criti Noll. Is that not his name? Is that a title or something? The idea that Hank Pym\u2019s unstable psyche is making the Skrulls who become him betray the cause repeatedly is a pretty complex and fun concept. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Slowly but surely catching up to the present. But that Thor book I mentioned wasn\u2019t the only tie-in to spin up this month, and our next 3 posts are going to be about another one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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