Random Back Issues #90 - Secret Avengers #13

Spider-Woman's making the only correct response. Other than breaking his face, which she'll do later.

A guy named Snapper, who was MODOK's assistant, and replaced the top of his skull with a glass dome, is trying to summon some Lovecraftian horror from a dimension called Tlon to put an end to all bullies. Maria Hill's going to be the centerpiece of the sacrifice. I would hold out for a better sacrifice.

Snapper knows Hill's team - Nick Fury, Hawkeye, MODOK, Phil Coulson, and the Fury, yes the one from the Captain Britain comics - is on the way to rescue her and Spider-Woman, currently in a cell and stuck talking to some crazy incel poet. But that's all part of Snapper's plan. He's banking on MODOK being in love with Maria Hill, which, I'm not sure who would be getting the short end of the stick in that hypothetical relationship. The attack begins, complete with an "Explosion-O-Meter", which a caption box informs us Ales Kot stole from Hot Shots: Part Deux!

The same page of Deadpool on a Hawkeye-themed VW bus (not as cool as the Kra-Van, but not bad) informs us we're seeing something Seth Rogen and James Franco already did in The Interview, and whatever it is Kot is trying to do with this bit, he's officially trying too hard. I don't even know what it is was in The Interview that we're seeing here. A guy singing about fireworks while grenades explode around him? Anyway, I can't remember how exactly Deadpool got mixed up in this. I think he and Hawkeye ran into each other on some AIM thing and Wade keeps wanting to team up. I'd take him over the losers Clint's running with in this book.

The Avengers seem to be doing well, I mean, the Explosion-O-Meter is up to 79, although they're getting credit for Deadpool's work. Also, MODOK is yelling about death to 'semiocapitalism' and how he is conflicted while machine-gunning a lot of people. If Snapper was counting on the children the Fury produced with some other-dimensional mess to help, that's not working out. Nick Fury and Coulson find Spider-Woman rescued herself. But Snapper injects Hill with some essence of Tlon to try and convince the Avengers to turn MODOK over to him in a trade.

Except then Snapper has his goons shoot MODOK with the same thing and the gateway starts to open. But this is all probably part of the Avengers' plan?

[9th longbox, 100th comic. Secret Avengers (vol. 3) #13, by Ales Kot (writer), Michael Walsh (artist), Matthew Wilson (color artist), Clayton Cowles (letterer)]