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16:22 / 07.02.05

How do you feel about Domino's good luck power, Troy? Is that retarded also?

22:17 / 11.02.05

I'm enjoying the book. The only reason I picked it up at all , though, is that I loved the Sentry series, and the reintroduction of that character in the MU could have amazing story possibilities. I'm hoping we'll see more, and actually get an explanation of how he can possibly be a part of the team, rather than having him just come back and there be no ramifications.

05:37 / 12.02.05

Yeah, Bendis has gone on record saying the next big story arc would be all about the Sentry, so that's cool...

and in other Avengers news, the writer of the O.C. actually made Young Avengers #1 worth reading - it's old-school Marvel superhero fun, some good hooks, although "Hulkling" is a pretty bizarre name...but he makes the concept work, for the most part... pleasantly surprising. Nice art by Jim Cheung, too. Don't go in expecting any more than a nice superhero set-up and some decent writing.

05:40 / 12.02.05

oh, and Bendis also just said that no one has yet correctly guessed the mystery Avenger, so maybe the stuff with Matt Murdock/DD is misdirection. The only other guesses I've heard are Shang-Chi (since the mystery Avenger seems like a martial arts dude) or Iron Fist (but there's no reason Iron Fist would need to be incognito, I think)... or it really is Murdock and Bendis is lying cause everyone guessed it already.

16:46 / 12.02.05

Everywhere I've read they've been saying Del Toro/White Tiger for the mysteriosu member.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

04:45 / 13.02.05

OK, was issue three the worst way to resolve a cliffhanger ever?

Our heroes are in trouble, Luke Cage may kill them, the end is near and....everyone's having coffee. Oh, yeah, and the thing we spent two issues building up that will bring back the Avengers? Wrapped up in two pages.

I don't mind if there is a twist the takes care of a cliffhanger, especially if its something the writer built in to the story that we didn't see, but this almost read as if everyone got bored with the story and just wanted to end it by having Bobby wake up in the shower and it was all a dream.

It sucks because I liked the first two issues, and was ready for this to be a big, goofy beat 'em up, which comics don't seem to have much anymore.

*grumbles on for an hour like an old man*

17:26 / 15.02.05

I agree completely.

17:28 / 15.02.05

I did want a big fight to resolve the whole thing too, but I still liked issue 3.

The new White Tiger as the new mystery member...? I like it...

19:43 / 15.02.05

Isn't agent Del Torro female?

what if it's Daredevil using the white tiger amulet?

20:19 / 15.02.05

Hmmm. I reread this all the other night from #500, and really didn't much like it.

Yeah, Del Toro is female.

20:22 / 15.02.05

Yes, del Toro is female, but that big, bulky mystery Avenger armor could feasibly hide the gender of the M.A.

16:53 / 24.03.05

#4 is out -- it's ok, not too exciting but some fun stuff. I feel like now that we're seeing the team as a team, Bendis' weakenesses as a writer are more exposed.

17:18 / 24.03.05

Dull as doo doo water compared to The Guardian.

Thas the way to show up Bendis's weaknesses.

17:20 / 24.03.05

I enjoyed it myself. Thought Spidey had all the best lines (found myself chuckling several times). Finch's art is growing on me.

The story seems to be built on past continuity with-out leaning on it. The revealing of the mystery villian was cool; a throwback to those MARVEL FAN FARE comics of the 80's. It also helps establish some of the rational on choice of membership.

19:06 / 24.03.05

Yeah, Spidey's lines made me lolalot.

20:47 / 28.03.05

"You don't go to the Savage Land without crashing."

The tension with SHIELD is interesting - why is there an acting director? Guess Fury is off on some craaaazy mission.

00:53 / 29.03.05

This one was nice, if utterly disposable.

Daredevil, otoh; it occurs that nothing has actually happened in the book for two years.

14:15 / 15.04.05

I think we had a few comments on Young Avengers in this thread...not sure of YA really deserves its own thread. But YA has been fun so far, and newsaram reports that the team may get a female Hawkeye. And there are other possible spoilers about the Iron Lad/Kang character...

Regrettable Juvenilia

14:18 / 15.04.05

I really, really enjoyed New Avengers #4, especially the Spiderman/Luke Cage dynamic.

"They don't come off."

"What?"

"About an hour."

"WHAT?"

"You *said* web you up..."

Stupid cover though.

14:25 / 15.04.05

You're just annoyed 'cos they took the nippleage out, Flyboy. (Honest.)

I know you.

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

14:59 / 15.04.05

Wish Bendis would hurry it up, esp if the wait between issues is gonna be so long...

rabideyemovement

02:02 / 17.04.05

I think the latest issue of Marvel Knights Spider-Man has the Sentry in it. Huge blonde guy working for the Bugle. Shades of Superman? He alarms Peter's spidey-sense. It has to be him.

14:49 / 18.04.05

Nope, that's definintely not the sentry in MK Spidey #13 - it's a new hero (name is Ethan Embry or something, not sure what the superhero name for this new guy is) created by writer Reggie Hudlin to serve as a foil for Spidey.

it's sort of like when Karl Kesel created a superhero character called the Alpha Centurion as a rival hero/foil in the Superman comics years back (if anyone remembers that besides me).

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

21:05 / 18.04.05

I don't think it's Bendis delaying the issues. His working technique is to write a complete story arc at once, then move on to a different book, write a story arc, and so on.

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

07:24 / 19.04.05

Nah, I mean I wish he'd do these arcs in three or four issues. His totally fucking rad dialouge isn't worth the book dragging this much.

13:58 / 29.04.05

Some more laughs and fun bits in the new ish (#5).

I really like the Iron Man suit operating remotely idea.

I always loved it when Stan Lee and the Marvel editors would say "Ish", appropo of nothing.

18:40 / 29.04.05

Who's the big-head/brained villain supposed to be? Looks like Mindworm, an old Spider-Man villain. Or I guess Bendis could just say 'oh, he's a new Savage Land mutate' if fans ask 'who is this? why didn't you identify him in the book'?

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

18:54 / 29.04.05

Brainchild. Leader of the, interestingly enough, Savage Land Mutates.

And I loved the circle of nekked Avengers.

22:30 / 29.04.05

Recently I brought and read the tpb collecting THE SENTRY series by Paul Jenkins. I was expecting it to end up with him in prison for killing his wife as he is in New Avengers #1, but err.. it didn't.

Can anyone tell me what happens and where to read it to fill in the gap between the Sentry seires and TNA?

Cheers.

rabideyemovement

02:48 / 30.04.05

Sorry, nothing fills that gap. That story was told out of continuity, but Bendis thought him too cool a character to write off. His first appearance since then was a few months ago. I've heard that when it's over and done, the Sentry will have been present in the Marvel U for a long time, but for some reason noone remembers him. Oh, and that mystery Avenger in a mask looks like Iron Fist to me. Same colors and a variation on the collar. Good time to reboot Heroes for Hire, I say.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

04:10 / 30.04.05

From my reading of Sentry, that mini-series WAS in continuity, and it explained why the rest of the Marvel Heores didn't remember him. OIf course, it was quite a while ago, and other than the "he was created by Stan before the FF" gimmick, it just wasn't all that memorable.

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

13:29 / 30.04.05

Apparently the next arc is going to explain WTF has been up with the Sentry and will launch Paul Jenkins' new Sentry series. Which, knowing Jenkins, could be ace or it could be crap.

I was never that big a fan of the original Sentry concept but with the right spin, it could be interesting.

17:39 / 03.05.05

Thanks for the info. So the whole "killed his wife" thing was new in the Avengers pages, eh? My reading of the mini-series was that it was indeed in the Marvel Universe. Except, of course it like many mini-series in that no one really refers to it or takes it on board in the regular books.

ONLY NICE THINGS

07:45 / 04.05.05

Well, why would you? The whole point was that nobody remembered the Sentry again. That's the first thing Bendis has to explain, along with the part where the Sentry knowing who he is releases the Void, which would make him a bit of a liability...

Still enjoying this, although this may be because it is Bendis being an unashamed early-80s fanboy - Jessica Drew and Luke Cage in the Avengers? Whatevah. I can see how the dialogue-heavy style may get draggy, but it's not quite the same as the "decompressed", mangaish approach. A reasonable amount happens in this issue - Wolverine pops up, scraps and is integrated into the team, Lycos is found and disposed of, bit more on the shadowy SHIELD conspiracy and a cliffhanger.

Except.. it's not much of a cliffhanger, really, since even the dumbest SHIELD agent must have studied the form book and worked out at that they are not going to be able to beat even this bunch of Avengers. Further, this whole SHIELD conspiracy stuff feels like Bendis is trying to create a kind of Bendis pocket of Marvel where SHIELD are all ambiguous and scary and ooooooh (Secret War, The Pulse), which is just not all that interesting to me.

At the moment, this is mainly holding my attention by being fun, and the dialogue is a major part of that. On the other hand, sometimes it feels like the dialogue is independent from the characters. The pants excange was funny, but it could have taken place between any pair of Bendis heroes, I think...

13:43 / 23.05.05

Just wanted to give YOUNG AVENGERS a shout-out -- issue 4 was well-done; this book is much better and more fun than anyone expected. Give it a shot for some old/new school Marvel fun.

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