Tuesday, December 14, 2010

New Avengers #7

Sometimes there's no real point behind these strips - I just think Squirrel Girl being a secret racist would be hilarious.

Anyway - this series is very good at entertaining me while irking me in numerous small ways. I'm still bothered by Wolverine and Spider-Man being on this team at all, and every time Bendis calls it out in some way, it pulls me entirely out of the story. The thing this issue with Spidey not being able to get a paycheck - which actually helped support ASM's current continuity - dredged up not only my issues with him being on two Avengers teams at once, but also the nasty Brand New Day wounds that never seem to close, no matter how much time passes. Peter even unmasked a second time to around 2/3 of the people in the room here - not one of them can take checks on his behalf and just pay him back in cash? As weird as it is to get into Avengers getting paychecks at all, it's hard to accept that no one can think of any way around the identity issue, for the sake of the one guy on the team who needs the money the most.

And as long as they're reminiscing about Dr. Strange sheltering them in his old house - if none of them remember the first time he unmasked at all, how do they think he ended up on the team at that point? What exactly does everything think Spidey was doing during the Civil War?

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