Avengers v3 #1 discussion post

[elspethdixon]

Avengers #1 - Once an Avenger...



Writer: Kurt Busiek
Penciler: George Perez

The Avengers return from being temporarily dead something something handwave let's never talk about that last storyline again, guys; we relaunched this title for a reason and discover that random villains all over the world are attacking former Avengers. The only solution is to reassemble!

And drink tea with Jarvis. Lots of tea. And bring Thor some mead and that cold mutton from the refrigerator.

Comments

[marinarusalka]

I kind of love the fact that Tony's tea service includes a giant-sized cup for Hank. Though why Hank can't just turn back to normal size to drink his tea, I don't know. Jan is at normal size and not drinking out of a thimble, but no, Hank has to stand there leaning on the chandelier.

Also, damn, that's a whole lot of Avengers. I always forget how much turnover the team has had over the decades. Is there anyone in the Marvel Universe who hasn't been an Avenger by now? Aside from, like, the supervillains.

(Actually, if you count the Dark Avengers, some of the supervillains have bee in too.)

[elspethdixon]

Tony's tea service probably includes a teeny-tiny Wasp-sized cup as well, if Jan wanted it. She's just not as much of a drama queen as Hank.

Is there anyone in the Marvel Universe who hasn't been an Avenger by now?

No. No there isn't. (I swear there's actually a joke about that in one of the next couple of issues).

[dorothy1901]

Aside from, like, the supervillains

Technically, a decent number of (former) supervillains have made it into the Avengers: the Black Widow, Hawkeye, Quicksilver, the Sandman, the Scarlet Witch, etc.

[marinarusalka]

Good point. Though I'm not sure Hawkeye counts, I think he was a villain for, like, a week and a half before he decided he didn't like it. :-P

At least the characters you mention all took the trouble to reform before joining up, as opposed to the Dark Avengers. Then again, once you've put "Dark" in your name, you kind of have to live up to it, I guess.

And on that note, I love that Mordred actually refers to himself as "Mordred the Evil."