To read Avengerous Tales 2.19, go here!
Today we begin with Thor summoning everyone to the meeting room, where Pietro and Crystal have called via Skype.
He explains all
about how Crystal found and nursed him back to health (I went through all this
in the previous Avengerous Tale, if you want a more detailed version), and in
the few days that they’ve known each other, they’ve fallen so in love that they
plan to marry.
Wanda’s really
happy for him, but she then makes the mistake of telling Pietro about how she
and the Vision are now a couple. Pietro yells
at her, saying that he won’t allow his sister to be involved with “a robot” and
ends the call by declaring that he won’t call her again until she “comes to her
senses.” You’d think he’d know better
than to judge others like this, considering how much it upsets him when people
make judgments about mutants, but nobody said that being oppressed
exempts you from being a hypocrite.
While Wanda
cries, the viewscreen pops back on, and the Avengers get a super creepy video
message that just consists of the cameraman showing them a thoroughly wrecked
mansion with an injured but defiant Professor X inside.
Okay, well,
what’s he up to? He’s gone to San
Francisco, where the Black Widow and Daredevil have been fighting crime
together. She’s not home though, so
Hawkeye politely leaves with the intention of coming back later when she’s
available. At least, that’s what he’s
doing in some alternate universe when he’s actually a decent person, but in
this one, he hides in her yard to wait for her.
Back with the
real Avengers, they arrive at the X-Mansion (is that what it’s called?) to find
all the X-Men in comas and the Professor’s mutant-finding computer, Cerebro,
transformed into a giant spider thing that wants to stab everyone a lot. They manage to escape both that and the
random shower of boulders outside, and Wanda is (appropriately enough) the
first to cotton onto what’s going on.
This isn’t as
random as it seems once you remember that Magneto’s last plot involved turning
the natives of the dinosaur-riddled Savage Land into mutants. And indeed, one of Magneto’s former
associates, a guy with a hypnotic flute, is the one controlling the dinosaurs.
Before they can
take down the Piper, the boulders spring back to life in a protective cocoon
that not even Thor can smash through.
Magneto
disguised himself as Angel so the Avengers would rescue him from the mansion
with the other X-Men, on whom he used his heretofore unheard-of mind control
powers to put them in comas. Okay????
(Actually they
explain it like this: the blood contains iron, which is a metal, and since
Magneto can control metal, he can therefore control humans. Even though that’s BS, but screw it,
it’s comics.)
So Magneto
kidnaps Captain America, Iron Man, and Scarlet Witch, leaving Black Panther,
Thor, and Vision to put together a rescue mission. Now, this story arc actually continues in the
pages of Daredevil #99 instead of The Avengers, and since Daredevil is not an Avengers comic, I’m
not going to be giving a full review of it.
Even if I did feel like reviewing it, I don’t have access to that issue at the moment,
so it sucks for all of us, really.
From what I read
on Wikipedia, it seems to revolve around Hawkeye and Daredevil fighting over
Black Widow and only afterwards thinking, oh yeah, maybe we should just ASK
NATASHA WHO SHE LIKES INSTEAD OF FIGHTING OVER HER LIKE SHE’S A GODDAMN FOOTBALL
TROPHY. Before they can ask her
anything, however, the Avengers arrive to ask Daredevil for help in saving the
X-Men and their own missing teammates.
And that brings
us to Avengers #111.
2. Why didn’t
they just call them instead of wasting all that time flying all the way across
the country? Hawkeye knew Black Widow’s address,
so their personal info isn’t exactly secret. And I know you people have a viewscreen to Skype
with, if not an actual dang telephone.
3. If
‘beauteous’ is the best word you can come up with to describe Black Widow, you
need a new thesaurus and to be shot with her widow’s bite.
The Avengers and
their new allies convene to discuss the matter.
Daredevil reads a newspaper article (with his magic glove-covered
fingers, what the heck) about an atomic scientists’ convention being held close
by, and it’s a pretty safe bet that Magneto will be interested in such a
gathering, since mutants are caused by atomic energy.
Sure enough…
The Avengers try
to stop them while in engaging in terrible banter.
Thor pursues
Magneto’s plane, but he has to retreat when Magneto mind-controls Iron Man into
dangling Cap from the plane (by his feet no less) and threatens to make Iron
Man drop him if Thor continues to follow.
So instead, the Avengers decide to figure out where those dinosaurs
popped out from… all except the Vision, who has vanished. Again.
Look, you guys
know I like Vision, but his habit of “mysteriously” disappearing only to turn
up at the last second to save the day is getting repetitive. At least he’s had some interesting arcs on a
personal level as he figures out how his feels work.
So while Magneto
tries to get the secret of atomic energy from the scientists for purposes of
world domination, the Avengers, again thanks to Daredevil’s super-senses,
manage to find the cave where they’re all holed up.
Anyway, the
Vision saves the day because of course he does—he possessed the body of
Magneto’s piper earlier and waited until just the right moment to knock out the
master of magnetism.
The Avengers
revive Professor X, who in turn revives the X-Men and the possessed
Avengers. While the X-Men realize that
the real Angel is still missing and that they must find him, the Avengers are looking
to expand. Cap offers Daredevil and
Black Widow a place on the team, and while Matt refuses, Natasha accepts in the
hopes that being away from Matt for a while will help her sort out her feelings
for him.
She doesn’t say
that, of course, and Matt gets a bit passive-aggressive about the idea of his
lady love having a life and mind of her own, but she doesn’t care enough to
change her mind. And hey, I can
personally guarantee you right now that Black Widow will be a better (and
certainly a less cranky) Avenger than Hawkeye and Quicksilver combined. Good riddance, fellas! Please forget to write!
To read Avengerous Tales 2.21, go here!
Images from Avengers #110 and Avengers #111
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