{"id":31840,"date":"2026-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=31840"},"modified":"2024-07-09T09:57:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T13:57:26","slug":"new-avengers-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2026\/05\/12\/new-avengers-42\/","title":{"rendered":"New Avengers 42"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This one\u2019s a slightly skewed version of Avengers #221, wherein a diminished team had to pick 2 new members, and the cover invited you to guess who it would be. Quite funny how 5 of the original 7 members of New Avengers are among the choices, but none of them made the cut. It was Hawkeye and She-Hulk who joined the team, for the record. Inside, we have art by Jim Cheung, John Dell and Justin Ponsor again. Ya never know who it\u2019ll be. This one starts with a reprise of Nick Fury telling Spider-Woman to be a double agent for Hydra, like he did in NA 14<\/a>, and then a faithful recreation of her going under the knife, Frank Cho\u2019s juvenile breast implants and all. And then\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So that\u2019s how it works. I mean, insofar as that is anything. They put a thing on her face and say alakazam and she\u2019s Jessica Drew. But there we have it. Spider-Woman has been a Skrull literally the entire time. That\u2019s pretty wild. We jump ahead a few weeks to the Skrulls figuring out how to get Jessica back on at SHIELD. They\u2019ve managed to replace one of the people who gives the entrance exams, and can get him to make sure she\u2019s back in. Once that\u2019s done, they plan to replace a whole buncha SHIELD personnel. And that\u2019s just the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The corruption the Avengers have been trying to root out of SHIELD? Why, it\u2019s this event. And yet again, it\u2019s been there the whole time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And that takes us to New Avengers #1<\/a>, and through the prison break in a series of panels with narration confirming the Skrulls hired Electro to blow up the Raft. Sauron going to the Savage Land and SIlver Samurai going back to Japan were their true goals. What they didn\u2019t count on was the Avengers reforming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, we revisit \u201cJessica\u201d meeting with Madame Hydra and negotiating a new deal to spy on the Avengers, then revisit Spider-Woman officially joining the team. Then we get to a bit we didn\u2019t see the first time, Tony telling a story about the old days involving Wanda, Spider-Woman asking where she is, anyway, and an awkward silence.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So stupid that she\u2019s not even Magneto\u2019s daughter anymore. This leads to a confrontation between Spider-Woman and Maria Hill, who does not trust her and doesn\u2019t like her being in SHIELD, let alone an Avenger. Then \u201cJessica\u201d is advised by Hank Pym that the Avengers and X-Men are meeting to decide what to do about the Scarlet Witch. They decide they will kill her no matter what, and say Hank snapped and let him take the fall. But, of course, instead, House of M happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We\u2019ll check back in on the Skrull Queen\u2019s reaction to all that later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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