{"id":12409,"date":"2022-03-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=12409"},"modified":"2021-02-07T21:05:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T01:05:59","slug":"avengers-236","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/03\/18\/avengers-236\/","title":{"rendered":"Avengers 236"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome back to 1983! One last time! The end of this block will also mean the end of Roger Stern & John Romita, Jr.\u2019s time on ASM. A sad era to run out of. But here\u2019s the thing: While Rollickin\u2019 Rog was setting the ship right on ASM, he was also doing a much-beloved run on The Avengers. I know! This run would put some pretty unusual people on the team and include, among other things, the very famous \u201cUnder Siege\u201d storyline. And also this story, where our pal Spider-Man guest stars. His co-conspirators on Avengers right now are Al Milgrom on breakdowns, Joe Sinnott on finishes and Carl Gafford on colors. As the cover suggests, right now The Avengers are team leader The Wasp, Captain America, the newly minted Captain Marvel, She-Hulk, Starfox, and Scarlet Witch. Vision is technically also on the team, but he\u2019s stuck in a comatose state in their basement after some superheroing. Hawkeye is also technically on the team, but currently on sick leave. As the story opens, the various Avengers are doing their thing around the mansion, including She-Hulk, who\u2019s taking a bath while looking for an apartment\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We\u2019ll recall this isn\u2019t Spidey\u2019s first time trying to join The Avengers (We saw that in ASM Annual 3). Won\u2019t be the last, either. She-Hulk in particular is very annoyed by the intrusion. Spidey mentions Thor said he should come join in Avengers 221, but Captain America says it\u2019s not that easy, and when Hawkeye gets back, they\u2019ll be at full strength. He suggests Spider-Man could become a trainee like Starfox, which Spidey balks out, but before they can start arguing, the priority alert goes off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nice of Spider-Man to give us the recap since it\u2019s been a long time since we saw comics from this era. As The Avengers take off in their Quinjet, Spidey makes the rash decision to jump on the bottom and hitch a ride to prove he can be helpful. Captain America, Starfox and She-Hulk are on their way to Project Pegasus, the high tech government research facility. Cap says their request for help was \u201clow-grade,\u201d which is why only 3 of them went, but he\u2019s worried things may not be what they seem. And as they land at the project, ground crew inform them there\u2019s something stuck to their jet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After a brief earthquake, Cap wants to know how Spidey knew what was going to happen, and he tells him about his Spider Sense. He also mentions he\u2019s helped The Project before (As seen in MTU Annual 5), so it\u2019s not that much of a security violation. Cap decides to take responsibility for him and let him come along. Spider-Man is informed Quasar is no longer their head of security, and everyone is told his successor went down to \u201cthermal research\u201d just before sending the alert to The Avengers, and that that\u2019s where the quakes are coming from. As the heroes and the security guard giving them the exposition head down there, they pass a lab where 2 guys say the quake \u201chas done something to the vibratory pitch of the Croit Stabilizer\u2026 a lucky accident!\u201d I bet! I bet that won\u2019t come back into the story later at all! When the heroes reach their destination, which they\u2019re told new bossman O\u2019Brien sealed behind him, Spidey lets them know he\u2019s not getting a danger buzz, so She-Hulk and Stardfox rip the doors off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh, no, it\u2019s the same dopey lava men from Treasury Edition 25! I\u2019m still scarred from reading that! I think Spider-Man has it worse, tho, he seems to have blocked out the whole experience:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s funny. Roger Stern is usually a stickler for continuity, too. Our old pal Monica Rambeau finishes getting her loan and then radios in to Wasp & Scarlet Witch, already en route to Pegasus. With her light powers, Monica is able to catch up to them instantly. When they arrive, they\u2019re told the staf hasn\u2019t been in contact with the other Avengers since they went down to level F. As Monica zips off to see if they\u2019re ok faster than the rest, the previously mentioned Croit Stabilizer opens up to let out a mysterious figure seemingly made of energy! Whoops! But what\u2019s happening down on Level F?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cap tells Spider-Man to web up some barriers, but he chooses to web up the lava men instead. They burn right through the webbing, and Cap is mad both that Spidey didn\u2019t follow orders and that now the lava men know they don\u2019t have to worry about his webbing. As a crestfallen Spider-Man presses on with the battle, we learn the mystery figure now loose in the project is Blackout. I feel like we shoulda seen him somewhere, but if we did, I didn\u2019t tag the post correctly. Ah, well, he\u2019s a goofy looking guy who can, you guessed it, cause blackouts, last seen in Nova 19. Which makes his design looking like an off-brand Electro even more suspicious, since they were trying so hard to make Nova a new Spider-Man. But he soon learns he\u2019s not the only villain on the premises\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moonstone! Last seen around here in TAC 61<\/a>! I assume Spider-Man will actually remember her. Speaking of whom, he and The Avengers are having no luck stopping the lava men from advancing on the nuclear reactor, but as they burn through another doorway, they\u2019re faced with Captain Marvel, whose shining light form has a surprising effect:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is there room enough in the next issue of Avengers for TWO lightning-faced guys?? I guess we\u2019ll find out as this tale reaches its conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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