Just read Avengers #274-#277, which is the arc when the Masters of Evil take over Avengers Mansion. Awesome stuff as Blackout sends Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau) into the Blackforce dimension, Black Knight and Jarvis are tortured and beaten, Cap gets captured and Hercules gets drugged then bludgeoned into a coma by Goliath, Mr. Hyde and the Wrecking Crew.
This leaves the Wasp as the last Avenger against Zemo and his crew. She's soon joined by Ant-Man (Scott Lang), Dr. Druid (before he was a creeper) and a returning Thor (w/awesome beard). Captain Marvel finds her way out of the Darkforce Dimension and they attempt to retake the mansion.
Hah. I'm not especially concerned with the condition or anything, I've just read most of them relatively recently. They're mostly first appearances of characters I like or battles I wanted to see.
At the comic convention we went to last weekend I picked-up Captain America #402-408 from 1992. The first 6 issues are the CapWolf arc and #408 is the Epilogue. Caps personal pilot, John Jameson, has gone missing and Cap goes off to find him on his own, leaving Black Widow in charge of the Avengers.
As you can probably guess, Cap is eventually turned in to a man-wolf by Nightshade. There are a lot of characters featured in these 7 issues, including Dr. Druid, Moonhunter, Wolverine, Cable, Wolfsbane, Dredmund Cromwell (who becomes Starwolf) and others.
There is also a back-up story in all 7 of these issues that features Crossbones, Diamondback, the Red Skull and several others.
All in all, I really enjoyed this arc. I thought it was well done and it was interesting to see Captain America in a very different situation than we normally see him in. Well worth the $1 each I paid for the issues.
I wish Moonhunter had more showings. He looks goofy but he would have been fun to use in battles. Also, it has a good Wolverine fight and back-up Crossbones story.
Post by Power NeXus on Aug 10, 2012 20:10:19 GMT -5
I sometimes prefer older comics to current ones. It was kinda nice when comics were more lighthearted and stories only lasted half a dozen issues, there were no major events getting overhyped every other week, and you didn't have to be reading half a dozen different titles just to understand what was going on in one story. Comics were just so much more easygoing back in the day.