{"id":29243,"date":"2025-10-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=29243"},"modified":"2024-02-18T17:45:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T21:45:13","slug":"new-avengers-annual-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/10\/24\/new-avengers-annual-01\/","title":{"rendered":"New Avengers Annual 01"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Let\u2019s close out this block with a good comic. Look at that lovely cover. It\u2019s the wedding event of the century from your pals Brian Michael Bendis, Olivier Coipel, uh, 8 inkers and 3 colorists, wow. I guess that\u2019s what it takes to get an oversized issue by Olivier Coipel to market on time. Couldn\u2019t do it at all today, as complicated as his art\u2019s gotten. The inkers are Drew Geraci, Drew Hennessey, Livesay, Rick Magyar, Danny Mikki, Mark Morales, Mike Perkins & Tim Townsend. The colorists are June Chung, Richard Isanove and Jose Villarrubia. I remember liking this comic, but now I\u2019m just wondering how drastically the art will shift with each change of personnel. But we don\u2019t open with the wedding, with the couple, or with the Avengers, we open on an awkwardly cropped reprint of the cover to 1967\u2019s Avengers #45 by John Buscema and Vince Colletta. The weird crop is clearly to remove the logo and cover copy of the first appearance of the Super Adaptoid, which a floating word balloon names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Man, I read a brand-new Super Adaptoid riff in a comic earlier today, funny how these things happen. Ok, now we can go see the happy couple and the Avengers. The\u2026 happy couple?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MJ on babies: Very consistent with her stance from ASM 265<\/a>. Man, remember those days? I won\u2019t lie, I miss the Vol. 1 era. It was just more fun to cover, in a lot of ways, for a lot of reasons. Also, Jessica Drew has since become a mom, which is kinda funny. A friend of mine was just like that about kids, and also became a mom, and loves it. That\u2019s just how it goes sometimes. We\u2019re just not gonna bring up the \u201cFor sale baby shoes, never worn\u201d elephant in the room.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think it\u2019s worth noting, for historical purposes, that Olivier Coipel is black. One of a still far too few black artists in comics, then and now (Shout out to Keith Pollard for the purposes of this blog). And I think a good artist can draw anything, but I just think you can tell Coipel is more comfortable with Cage than\u2026 every other artist. He\u2019s a real guy! He\u2019s not a cliche of a black man, he doesn\u2019t have rote cliche features. Well, Tony, Steve & Bob are off to meet the mayor, visibly Bloomberg, who has concerns about Avengers Tower. And they probably won\u2019t be assuaged by Yelena Belova showing up right as he arrives to start a ruckus, which she does. But we cut back upstairs before we see said ruckus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coipel really seems to be having fun with that baby. His work has become so fussy in the last 20 years. I miss this cartooning. Carol wallops Yelena, who just gets back up and seems to adapt into her. Then she sends all the Avengers flying like Sentry, saying she really wants to get her hands on Captain America. But Cap has bundled the mayor into the back of a car and is fleeing the scene, assuming the attack is on him, not the Avengers. Yelena pursues, thanks to her batwings, which, like, which Avenger is that from? But then she gets smashed into a building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Really like that Spider-Man joke. Yelena punches Bob like a missile again, but Carol catches him, throws him to Spider-Woman, who throws him to Cage, who lands in a spider web while giving Spidey a thumbs up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coipel nailin\u2019 the Iron Man suit. Just keeping track. If that seems mean, I can\u2019t draw it, either, as I have already offered evidence of. It\u2019s hard!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also very much like that \u201cI wasn\u2019t done stalling yet!\u201d joke. Bendis\u2019 Spider-Man actually being funny was so refreshing in this era where so many people suck at it. I also note no one is drawing the webbing coming out of the back of the hand in this suit except Ron Garney. Spider-Man kicks Yelena in the butt to wake her up, then hops off the roof they crashed on just in time for her to get a Captain America shield to the face. He\u2019s just bait, tho, running to get her in position to get zapped by Spider-Woman, and then Wolverine says \u201cNow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think it\u2019s funny that throwing Wolverine has become such a go-to gag when he weighs so much more than a regular person due to being full of unbreakable metal. I mean, nothing Colossus or Ms. Marvel can\u2019t handle, but still. Throwing anyone else would be easier. Cool roll action at the bottom there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Can\u2019t go wrong with the ol\u2019 \u201carmy of armors\u201d gag. Clearly differentiating between the 1st Adi Granov suit and the Extremis suit feels like showing off when Mike Deodato and Dave Finch couldn\u2019t even draw one of them or keep them straight, but Coipel is top tier. Tony\u2019s not in any of the suits, he\u2019s on a nearby roof coordinating them all. But Yelena manages to even start turning the tide under this onslaught, noting she has Wolverine\u2019s healing factor and Cage\u2019s unbreakable skin.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Using the Void against her is a very novel application of Bob\u2019s whole deal. Good call, Bendis! As Sentry\/Void keeps turning the screw, we cut to the Hydra guy who\u2019s controlling Spider-Woman, who tells AIM to pull the plug. Yelena feels it happening, tries to ask for help, and explodes. Everyone thinks Sentry killed her, but Iron Man knows she was destroyed precisely so he couldn\u2019t study her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Grim! I don\u2019t rightly recall how Yelena went from a puddle to a regular Black Widow with no powers again, but it\u2019s comics, of course she did. But we got a wedding to attend, finally!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A nice moment of happiness before it all turns to crap. Because up next is Civil War, and after Civil War\u2026 everything changes\u2026 That\u2019s technically the end of this block, but we roll right into Civil War next time. Also shout out to my old internet pal and fellow Bendis Boarder Michael Lapinski for having a question printed in the new \u201cHotspot\u201d page, which is sort of a modern take on the Bullpen Bulletins page. Michael drew a guest installment of Comics From Space! for me once, aeons ago, and it was maybe the best looking strip I ever posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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