I will freely admit that much of this is attributable to
nostalgia, that this was the first time I had been buying comics on my own and this was the first "
the old order changeth" of that period.
But, in my opinion, this is the
best Avengers line-up
EVER:
Of course, that line-up lasted
exactly 4 panels, as by the end of the issue...
...
Zombie Wonder Man showed up!!
Seriously, he should go back to being
Zombie Wonder Man!!
Anyway, then the
Whizzer started hanging around for awhile..
...and whenever the team ran up against someone too tough...
...the
Collector would pull
Thor out of time to come and help them!
Then the
real Guardians Of The Galaxy showed up...
...and
Jocasta started
hangin' with them...
...and
Ms. Marvel turned up and stuck around...
...and the return of
Hawkeye merited it's own (gorgeous) cover...
...and a bunch of
other former Avengers showed up, like
Hercules and
Natasha and
T'Challa and
Moondragon (boo!)...
...
AND THEY ALL DIED!!
Don't worry, they all got better...
...and then the government showed up, and fired all of them except 7, and
that line-up changed before the end of the issue, and...
I'm just saying, today's line-ups are
too stable. The best Avengers line-ups are the flexible ones, with lots of churning and changes and growing and adapting and leaving and...
From various issues Avengers #151-181 (1976-1979)
Geez, I don't know who David Wenzel is, but it's got to be a hard gig being penciller on the Avengers between George Perez and John Byrne.
ReplyDeleteWas that the story about that guy Michael who kills them all? And Vancde Astro sees himself as a little kid?
ReplyDeleteWayne--yup.
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