"Shocking! Yeah, I Don't Wanna Hear It", in Solo Avengers #12, by Tom DeFalco and Ralph Macchio (writer), Ron Lim (penciler), Jose Marzan (inker), Andy Yanchus (colorist), Jack Morelli (letterer)
I shouldn't get to this title for a very long time, but they changed the title to Avengers Spotlight somewhere around issue #24, and the earliest issues I bought were the Acts of Vengeance tie-ins that came after that point. So I had it filed accordingly.
Like the title suggests, the book functioned as an opportunity for stories focusing on just one or two Avengers. A lot of those star Hawkeye, which is OK by me. But you get one-shots about the Vision, Wonder Man, Moon Knight. Rick Jones gets a story one month. Hellcat gets one where her crazy ex-husband menaces her about her memoir.
No, not Damian Hellstrom, her other crazy ex-husband. The high school sweetheart, Buzz, or whatever. God, Patsy, you have the worst taste in men. It's like the inverse of Matt Murdock, who is the worst choice for any woman who ends up dating him.
Usually two stories in each issue. Issue 12 features Hawkeye alone
against the Abomination. Or Tyrannus' mind inside the Abomination's
body. At any rate, Hawkeye punching way out of his weight class, which I always enjoy. less enjoyable is that we're at the point where he and Mockingbird are having problems because Clint still thinks she killed Phantom Rider, and he's all "Avengers don't kill," at his wife, who was, you know, drugged into thinking she loved the Rider for several weeks. Not the time or place for that discussion, Clint.
The other story is Rita Demara, the second Yellowjacket, developing a crush on the Black Knight, while trying to fend off the Fixer's advances. Dane crashes and burns spectacularly telling the Wasp his true feelings first, though. Notable mostly for being
the earliest example of Amanda Conner's comic artwork I've come across. Which is one of the fun things about these kind of books, the earlier examples of the work of people that become big names later. The second story in the first issue is drawn by Jim Lee, for example.
Plus, it's a good book to go on back issue hunts for because you can pick and choose. There aren't typically a lot of interweaving plotlines. A story might carry over several issues, but it's still it's own thing. Since the book is from the '80s, anything relevant going on in other titles will get referenced as needed.
4 comments:
Patsy does indeed have absolutely terrible taste in men...but oh, I still miss her last book...it was always a hoot, and had a terrific version of She-Hulk.
It's a little hypocritical for Hawkeye to be moralizing abou not killing, when he murdered Bruce Banner a few years later.
Hawkeye killing is all Bendis' fault, though. I don't know why Bendis is so insistent on having Hawkeye kill people, but he goes back to that well a lot. Avengers Disassembled, Secret Invasion, Dark Reign, Civil War II.
So I'm giving Clint a mulligan on that. Which doesn't mean he shouldn't have been more understanding to Bobbi.
It's true that it is Bendid's fault...frankly I fond his writing to be very over-rated at best.
A little goes a long way with Bendis. I haven't felt an urge to read anything of his since I dropped Ultimate Spider-Man which was, 2008? Cripes.
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