{"id":34087,"date":"2026-07-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=34087"},"modified":"2025-06-18T23:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T03:32:17","slug":"new-avengers-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2026\/07\/11\/new-avengers-54\/","title":{"rendered":"New Avengers 54"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This month, we get started by flashing back to 10 minutes ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Eye made a big, mystical powerpoint presentation from the Ancient One explaining he gave Strange his title, and now he\u2019s given it up, and Jericho is the best choice to replace him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, he\/they took it, the Eye stopped talking to them, and Jericho\u2019s ghost brother predicted they would have a trial by fire 2 seconds before the explosions outside that brought Brother Voodoo into the fight last issue. That catches us up, so now Voodoo and Strange are fighting the thing that was the Hood on 2 fronts. The Avengers jump in, but they don\u2019t add much, given that it\u2019s a magic fight. Hellstrom tells Strange to put a defensive spell on him so he can end this, and then just stands there while the Avengers fight for a couple more pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI can\u2019t believe it was the guy I fight all the time!\u201d Voodoo does some of Bendis\u2019 really just not great magic gibberish and banishes Dormammu in 2 pages flat. Easy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, then. Seems like Clint\u2019s plan is working. Seems like we\u2019re finally done with the Hood. Except\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We will never be done with the Hood while Bendis is at the wheel. And then we see that Norman\u2019s TV appearance in Dark Avengers actually happens after all this, whoops, and Clint\u2019s plan maybe isn\u2019t working so well. Such that he is driven to say<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, we know he won\u2019t do that. But what will he do? We\u2019ll see. This month saw the beginning of Captain America: Reborn, a miniseries wherein Ed Brubaker finally brought back Steve Rogers. Couldn\u2019t keep him down for long. But, unlike all of Brubaker\u2019s run on Cap to date, Reborn was\u2026 not very good. It featured art by Bryan Hitch, and since he was known for cinematic action, Brubaker said he was driven to do a more action-oriented conclusion. So, you wound up learning Cap was shot by some kind of ridiculous time bullet that had him bouncing through his own timeline, reliving his life, until the good guys were able to bring him back JUST in time to fight a giant robot of the Red Skull. Years of \u201cgrounded,\u201d \u201crealistic\u201d comics about conspiracies, covert ops and intrigue winds up with\u2026 giant Red Skull robot. And then, Steve elects not to become Cap again, because he had a vision of the future where he was Cap and Bucky died, so he leaves Bucky in the role. This was one of the first visions of a future wherein the Earth was under attack by giant, War of the Worlds-type walkers, and despite being teased in many comics, some of which we\u2019ll see on the blog, that never happened. Which sure is awkward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s extra funny about the Cap thing to me is sometimes, Marvel and DC wind up on parallel tracks. Sometimes it has to be them copying each other, other times, it\u2019s a coincidence. But the broadest strokes of what happened with Captain America and Batman in this time are so insane. Both \u201cdied\u201d in big crossovers. Both were replaced by their old sidekick (Dick Grayson for Batman) for an extended run of comics. Both were revealed to be lost in time instead of dead and brought back. The actual comics were extremely different, but the similarities were kind of nuts. That\u2019s just how it goes sometimes. Now it\u2019s time for something of a detour. Well, several detours, in fact. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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