{"id":32066,"date":"2026-05-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=32066"},"modified":"2024-07-09T10:00:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T14:00:30","slug":"new-avengers-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2026\/05\/27\/new-avengers-46\/","title":{"rendered":"New Avengers 46"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This cover is a bit unusual, as it\u2019s the cover to the trade paperback Bring On The Bad Guys from the 70s, a collection of comics spotlighting the major Marvel villains. The only cover in this event not referencing a single issue of a comic. Tan\/Banning\/Ponsor back this issue. Matt Banning used to sign his work \u201cBATT,\u201d which is pretty fun. More fun than this guy is having\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We rewind from there to \u201cone month and one day ago\u201d to find Madame Masque unsuccessfully trying to escape SHIELD custody on her way to be interrogated. The agents questioning her are real jerks, and, as it turns out, Skrulls, which she and the Hood learn when he shows up and shoots them all to free her. So then we jump forward a day to just \u201cone month ago,\u201d and that\u2019s where we started. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Masque started shooting the agent in various non-lethal places and threatened to finish him until he revealed he was a Skrull. Hood demands to know how many Skrulls are on Earth, and isn\u2019t getting anywhere, and then the Skrull finally says Earth \u201cis ours.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Bendis and his 2-page spreads) Everyone starts thinking about what\u2019s going on. They agree Tony Stark is a Skrull. They suspect Madame Masque is, which is kind of funny, since Veranke bringing a Skrull corpse to Tony is how she got so deep into the heroes\u2019 council. Then one of the jobbers reminds the Hood he could see through illusions at Dr. Strange\u2019s house, and says he should try that again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bendis really got so much mileage out of \u201cEveryone knows about Skrulls and is paranoid now.\u201d It just kept working. It\u2019s a great setup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, this revelation falls totally flat. A real dud. The Hood\u2019s power was demonic in nature, like, fire\u2019n\u2019brimstone, Mephisto-type demonic. Further, it seemed that the demon lived in the cape, and was threatening to take over. Now it\u2019s Dormammu, which is left-field and disappointing, and also there\u2019s no way Dr. Strange\u2019s #1 guy has been living in a cape all this time. As with the Sentry, Bendis\u2019 eagerness to keep this character alive has somehow resulted in him kinda ruining the character. Pretty confusing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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