{"id":30669,"date":"2026-01-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=30669"},"modified":"2024-03-11T18:26:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T22:26:03","slug":"new-avengers-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2026\/01\/06\/new-avengers-35\/","title":{"rendered":"New Avengers 35"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So now the recap page of NA 35, which comes out 3 months before MA 7, has to tell you a virus fell out of a satellite and turned regular people into Venoms so you\u2019ll know what\u2019s going on in this book. MESSY! But, now we have 2 different comics cliffhanger-ing into a symbiote invasion, so naturally\u2026 this comic isn\u2019t about that at all. My increasingly spotty recollection is this issue\u2019s contents were changed when it became clear Cho was going to screw up Mighty Avengers\u2019 timeline, this story moved up and slightly modified to fit here and put off the actual symbiote action one more month. But even that wouldn\u2019t be enough to fix things. To get things started, we find Jigsaw trying and failing to rob a place \u201cseveral days ago\u201d when Tigra finds him in the act and stops him. Then the cops bust in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now those are some realistic cops! Assume the worst, shoot first, ask questions never, make things worse. Nailed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The despairing Jigsaw then finds a note left for him, saying if he wants to make real money, to attend a meeting. And then he\u2019s at said meeting. The unseen host of him and several villains says he\u2019s proud of them for showing up, and knows their frustrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leinil Yu grew up learning from Whilce Portacio, and it\u2019s crazy, because their art is so different, but once in a while, just once in a while, something really Portacio-esque comes out of Yu\u2019s pencil, like the Hood at bottom of this page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, let\u2019s see, we got Jigsaw, Griffin, some guy (Chameleon?), Cutthroat, maybe Tiger Shark in the back there, some lady, Mr. Hyde, Mr. Fear, Mandrill (The amount of Mandrill appearances on this blog is beyond comprehension), Purple Man, Grey Gargoyle, The Answer (!), is that Blackout?, some guy, some guy, and 3 more some guys. Hey, I don\u2019t know everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that\u2019s not Chameleon, it\u2019s just some bald guy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So\u2026 a lot of thoughts here. One, this is very similar to Mark Grunewald\u2019s Serpent Society, wherein King Cobra organized all Marvel\u2019s snake-themed villains into a union, with insurance and everything. Just less specific. Two, the thing about Bendis bringing all these new characters to a wider audience is\u2026 they rarely seem themselves anymore. The Sentry wasn\u2019t such a basketcase in his miniseries. Echo was pretty different in her prior appearances. And Parker Robbins was just some shmoe in a found cloak. Last we saw him before New Avengers, he had faked the Hood\u2019s death to try to get back to his life of small time crime. He had a pregnant girlfriend and a mom in the hospital, who he promised he was only going to do good things from now on, tho he was totally unreliable in that regard. Now he\u2019s a criminal mastermind able to hand out $25,000 each to a couple dozen supercrooks. Who is this guy? Not the guy from the miniseries. Well, he tells Blackout there that this money is nothing compared to what they\u2019ll acquire together, and says their organization will be like Murder, Inc. Bendis will later do a crime comic with his good buddy Mike Oeming called The United States of Murder, Inc., about an alternate reality where the mob runs America or something like that. I never read it, actually, it\u2019s one of the few things B did that I didn\u2019t check out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John King was Parker\u2019s cousin or brother or something, I don\u2019t quite recall. Well, the next several pages of this book are tremendously unpleasant and were met with strong condemnation at release, as it finds the Hood catching Tigra at home and brutalizing her to send a message to the superheroes of the world. Beaten, shot, beaten some more, while she screams and begs, all while Jigsaw films the incident. And while her shirt magically pops open so her boobs can flop around. Not a superhero fight, but a grim assault, approaching the level of the still-infamous assault on Barbara Gordon in Batman: The Killing Joke. Which, I might add, was considered tasteless and gross by an ever-growing segment of comics readers at this time, almost 20 years after publication, and B drops this on us. I can see what Bendis is doing. This is the criminals sending a message. I get it. And it feels at home with his history in hardboiled crime stuff. But the optics are just gross. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So that\u2019s how things got to the Owl being summarily dispatched, and now we hop to today, as the baddies are deciding what to do with Deathlok. For one, they\u2019re not going to send it at the Avengers, because Parker is pretty sure Wolverine heard about that. Instead, Deathlok, aided by the Wrecking Crew, attacks a New Jersey branch of Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co, identified as \u201cthe oldest and largest partnership bank in the United States\u201d with \u201c$4.2 billion in assets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Man, no justice for Luther Manning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thunderball, we will recall from previous blog appearances, is the supersmart member of the Wrecking Crew, but modern writers tend to forget that. Well, now we\u2019ve had no less than THREE stories end on the same cliffhanger. Maybe we ought to go see this symbiote invasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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