The Avenging Hour

Ugh.  Bad news:  Its more of the Sentry storyline.  Good news:  The storyline ends this issue.  Woo hoo!

We're back with the New Avengers with the first two parts of a story that focuses on The Sentry!  Woooo!  Imagine our excitement!

We're back to the Young Avengers, where we find out an important secret about Patriot and the team faces off against Mr. Hyde!

The team is in the Savage Land, where they induct the oddest member to ever join....Wolverine!  It makes no sense, but we don't need logic when we have momentum!  Also, evil SHIELD agents and more mysterious figures lurking in shadow!

SPOILER WARNING: About 8 minutes in, Jason spoils a plot point from the first trade of Matt Fraction's Batman run.  Just FYI!  I know we spoil comics all the time (its kind of what we do) but they're usually MUCH older than that. We continue with New Avengers, continuing to agree that Bendis is doing a better job than we thought, but not as good as we'd hoped after reading the first...

We're finally here!  We begin Bendis' run on New Avengers and we have Mike from the Nerdcave with us again to help us through them!  There's two good issues here as the heroes try to stop the villains from breaking out of the Raft!   And be sure to check out Mike's amazing work at TheNerdCaveVideos (@thenerdcavevideos) | TikTok .  It's well worth your time!!

Its an episode where we spend more time not talking about the Avengers then we do talking about the issues!   The issues aren't bad, they're just mostly fighting, so we spend time talking about Gerry Conway and Atlas Seaborn and all kinds of comics related topics!

We continue with Young Avengers, as we are reintroduced to the Vision, find out that Cassie Lang is now a superhero, and Kang drops by to clean up the mess he created.

We're getting so close to New Avengers, but first we have one more series before the team reformed, and that's the first storyline in Young Avengers, which introduces some amazing new characters.  Here we meet characters like Asgardian (who?), Hulkling, Patriot and Kate Bishop and we see more of perennial Avengers villain Kang!

We finish up the GLA miniseries this week with more death, a surprise villain appearance and the heroes manage to defeat a villain that's given the main team a lot of trouble in the past!

We're back in current continuity with the first two issues of the GLA miniseries from 2005!  We learn more about the team, which loses some members and gains some members, as they try to step in to fill the void left by the absence of the Avengers after Disassembled!

We finish up the second series of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, where the Avengers face their most fearsome villains...the Circus of Crime! 

We continue through Earth's Mightiest Heroes II, coming to perhaps the most nonsensical plotline in Avengers history, the introduction of Yellowjacket!  Joe Casey does his best to force some logic on this fever dream, but at least he keeps the best part of it...the Circus of Crime!

Its issues 3-4 of Earth's Mightiest Heroes II, as we see the team fight AIM and some Adaptoids and we begin to see the first cracks in Hank Pym's facade.

We're back with Joe Casey's follow up to Earth's Mightiest Heroes, this time looking at the issues where Hank Pym had his first mental breakdown and became Yellowjacket!  Joe Casey does his level best to make that plotline make sense, but in the meantime, he adds in some other plots, including one involving the Super-Adaptoid!

We finish off the miniseries this week as Cap's Kooky Quartet is formed!  And we ask, who was this miniseries for?  Plus, we talk about the Dark Phoenix Saga, which is definitely Avengers related!

We continue talking about the Earth's Mightiest Heroes series, as we move toward the big fight between Cap and Zemo and the changing of the guard.  

We continue our look at Joe Casey's Avengers: Year One project, and we also talk about Wonder Man and John shows he's a pretentious prat.  Listen along!

We begin to discuss a limited series this week!  Fresh off the success of X-Men: Children of the Atom, Joe Casey comes to the Avengers and gives us a story during the first year and change of the original 1963 title.  These two issues cover issues 1-5 of the original Stan Lee/Jack Kirby run!

We skip a few years into the future to discuss the What If that reimagined Avengers Disassembled if the Scarlet Witch hadn't acted alone.  We then discuss why we won't be discussing Avengers AAFES in detail on the podcast.

This week we're talking about the Avengers: Finale, which tries to put a bow on Avengers Disassembled and then we take a quick stroll through everything we read during Volume of the Avengers!

We finish Avengers Disassembled this week, as the team is destroyed.  Yeah, yeah, I know they've done that trick before, but this time they mean it!

Well, we couldn't put it off any longer:  this week we start the Bendis run on Avengers!  But we needed some help, so we called in special guest Mike from The Nerdcave ( TheNerdCaveVideos (@thenerdcavevideos) | TikTok ) to help us begin Avengers Disassembled, where everything you know about the Avengers is going to change!

Its the end of the Avengers/Thunderbolts crossover but will either team, or the Earth itself, survive it?  (Spoiler alert:  Yes, the Earth survives.)

The Avengers/Thunderbolts storyline continues as the Thunderbolts roust the Wizard and Cobalt man joins their ranks!  Or does he?