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proteus_lives (proteus_lives) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-03-28 20:58:00

Current location:	Outer Dark
Entry tags:	char: hawkeye/ronin/clint barton, char: jewel/jessica jones, char: mockingbird/bobbi morse, char: ms. marvel/carol danvers, char: power man/luke cage, char: spider-man/peter parker

New Avengers #51 Bendis picks up a dangling plot-line
Greetings True Believers! My first post here! I wanted to post these pages from NA #51 because it picks up on a minor Alias plot-point that Bendis tossed into the ocean and forgot about. Jessica Jones and her high-school crush on Peter Parker. Spoilers and enjoy!

We begin with dinner at Bucky's place.

They're eating and decide that Ronin will lead the Avengers and Carol will be his second in command. Then they discuss trust issues. Everyone wants Peter to take off his mask. He is iffy about it but since he loves being an Avenger....

I took out the last scan because I overposted. It had Jessica stalking away mad because Peter didn't remember her.
I edited further to obey the rules. :(

Interesting. My question is why the fuck Bendis didn't bring up JJ's crush pre-BND? Is Bendis planning something? JJ/PP? Probably not but it's an interesting thought.

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moneyless_jew
2009-03-30 10:11 am UTC (link)

If he can only do street level, then honestly he shouldn't be doing the Avengers IMO. That's not what the book is about.

Despite my major issues with the Collective and Michael Pointer and all that shit, I felt that his work on that arc and the first one were quite decent examples of classic Avengers storytelling with a Bendis spin. This Dormammu thing looks to be shaping up the same way.

I agree he can be awkward with a larger canvas, but I was not as harsh on his Mighty arcs as others and I felt he did all right (excepting the fact that his entire run on that title was a warm-up for SI, and almost no one got any characterization). I think he can do well with Avengers-style story if he is closely controlled.

If it remains "Brooklyn Avengers" with them all hanging out like fifty blocks from me, I'm just going to get tired of that. Why are SPIDER-MAN, MS. MARVEL, HAWKEYE, MOCKINGBIRD, WOLVERINE, and CAPTAIN FUCKIN' AMERICA hanging out on the corner shooting the shit? Are there no Kree to fight? No Dr. Doom? No cosmic threats? No Magneto? It just seems improbable for them to take up the Avengers mantle, promise to uphold their reputation, yet sit around in the boroughs fighting street crime while the Dark Avengers and the Euro cousins in Mighty do all the heavy lifting. No one's going to tell me Hawkeye, Mockingbird, Wolverine and Bucky are all gonna be like "Morgan LeFay? Chthon? Psh, I got a black market iPod racket RIGHT HERE."

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bluefall
2009-03-30 10:33 am UTC (link)

Hey, they could be Ultron-infected iPods, you never know.

That's not what the book is about.

Well, that's kind of what NEW has been about, which is why it's worked. It had a bunch of mostly street-levels - people who, sure, *could* take the cosmic stuff if they had to, no hero worth his mask wouldn't, but were more comfortable with and more suited to the small stuff. Wolverine and Hawkeye spend as much time fighting the Avengers-level menaces as they do smaller stuff, sure, but usually with a more high-power team.

Actually Carol and Clint are a bit odd-man-out right now, and I do wonder how that's going to play, at least between now and when it occurs to someone to remind Bendis she's dead.

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