{"id":27220,"date":"2025-06-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=27220"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:38:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:38:44","slug":"new-avengers-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/06\/20\/new-avengers-05\/","title":{"rendered":"New Avengers 05"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The way Jim Lee and his followers insist muscular men have these deformed, huge wrists is very funny to me. Like it\u2019s Lee making a peculiar drawing choice, and then a literal generation of people copying it. There\u2019s not a whole lot of muscle to build there, guys, buff or not. Wolverine\u2019s wrists look like he\u2019d have trouble moving his thumbs here. But that\u2019s exactly what Jim would have done. Well, at any rate, we\u2019re back where we left off, many of the New Avengers running from a dinosaur, until Iron Man gets chomped and blows up its head. That feels kinda uncalled for. Not the dinosaur\u2019s fault you showed up here. Spider-Man then stops to wonder where Luke and Spider-Woman went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bendis rule #1 is torture Wolverine because he can take it. Luke and Jess bring him back to the others, and they argue about whose fault all that was, and then Logan gets around to saying why he\u2019s here. He\u2019s being hunted and couldn\u2019t take any chances, hence the aggressive entrance. To begin explaining what\u2019s going on, he asks if any of them know who Karl Lykos is. Hey, what luck!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have always wondered what happened with Wolverine\u2019s webbed hand down at the bottom. Clearly not on purpose, but how\u2019d it happen? I still can\u2019t tell if it\u2019s inking or coloring where it was added. Well, now\u2019s the perfect time for them to all get jumped by the mutants, and one of them has a power dampening ability (Which, unfortunately includes Spider-Mans \u201cnew creepy organic webshooters,\u201d as he calls them). Everyone passes out. And then they wake up in a real classic X-Men-style trap, all hung from the ceiling, only unlike a classic X-Men-style trap, they\u2019ve all be stripped nude first. Rather incredibly, Brainchild, the genius mutate, is there, and says he looks forward to continuing his experiments on Spider-Man. That\u2019s a reference to Marvel Fanfare 1<\/a> & 2<\/a>! That\u2019s a deeeeep pull in this continuity-averse era! Cap says he demands to speak to Karl Lykos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brainchild and Lykos start squabbling, and Tony asks Steve if he\u2019s heard enough. Then he remotely activates his armor, which converts into a sort of flying tank mode. He tells it to attack Lykos. In the process, it blows up Branchild\u2019s big computer console and happens to free our heroes. As the armor makes the mutates flee, they get their kit back on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First time for the new team. As they all do their thing, Wolverine goes after Lukos, and just stabs him in the gut. But, as the horrified Avengers look on, he turns into his other form. I mean, he had to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There\u2019s no one on this team who should know better than to let a mutant near Sauron than Wolverine. That didn\u2019t make a lot of sense. Well, it\u2019s Yelena Belova, the random new Black Widow Devon Grayson and JG Jones created a couple years before this. Things don\u2019t look good for the good guys. This month\u2019s letters are getting more and more positive. It\u2019s funny, the topic of this book being a \u201cripoff of Justice League\u201d because Spider-Man and Wolverine are on the team comes up. This was a hot debate on the comics internet from the moment the team was announced. The lore has it that, at one of Marvel\u2019s writer\u2019s retreats where various writers reveal their plans for the future, event stories are kicked around, and so on, Bendis said Spider-Man and Wolverine should join the Avengers, that Marvel\u2019s most popular characters should be on their premiere superteam, and the room exploded into a heated argument. At which point Joe Quesada, they say, knew they had to do it. If it could inspire such passion in the guys who do this for a living, imagine the fan reaction. But, also\u2026 why wouldn\u2019t the company\u2019s premiere superteam have its premiere characters on it? Not all the time of course, you want line-ups to change over the years\u2026 Justice League doesn\u2019t always feature Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman\u2026 But why not? People acting like this was some kind of cop out, cash grab or gross betrayal were very strange. It\u2019s common sense, and yet it still somehow took all this time to happen. Well, start happening. Wolverine hasn\u2019t been offered a slot yet. But\u2026 he was on the cover to #1, so\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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