The Avenging Hour

The Beast is back!!!  And the first issue also guest stars famous comic book characters Kurt Busiek and George Perez!  Then we learn more about the Triune Understanding with the return of Triathlon!

We start off this week with a giant size issue featuring the return of Hawkeye and his new pals, the Thunderbolts!  We follow that up with an issue guest starring the New Warriors and one that features a new role for the Scarlet Witch!  

Avengers Forever is over and we're back to more Busiek and Perez goodness!  The mystery of Wonder Man is finally settled, and if you're dealing with Wonder Man, you're likely also dealing with his brother....the Grim Reaper!  Plus count how many of the dead Avengers in this issue are still dead in 2024!  Its not that many.

This is it....Avengers Forever ends here, with more alternate universe Avengers than you can shake a Quinjet at!  See the death of Immortus!  See the rebirth of Immortus!  See the Supreme Intelligence get a pretty jewel!  Everything gets wrapped up with huge fight scenes that Carlos Pacheco poured his heart and soul into!

We're back with more from the 1999 Avengers Forever series!  We have an issue that focuses on (and does some retconning to) Kang's history and then the plot kicks back in as we prepare for the grand finale in the next episode!

The Avengers get captured, escape and are captured again when one of their own turns against them!  In between all that we get a LOT of retconning of plotlines going back decades, but especially plots from the 90s.  Strap in, because this is a big one!

We continue to follow our Avengers away teams through the far future and not quite as distant past as they deal with pregnant robots, hostile aliens, wild west heroes and an alien Richard Nixon!  Listen along to see how these forays into the time stream resolve themselves!

We continue our look at Avengers Forever as our team of time tossed Avengers start going through time and find more teams of Avengers throughout different eras in history (and in the future)!  We ask how a robot that had hair can now be bald, and also pregnant?  Listen along and maybe you can answer this for us!

We're breaking into the main Avengers title to discuss a 12 issue mini-series from 1999 where Kurt Busiek rewrites Avengers history and also throws in a huge time travel plot to boot!  We meet our....slightly different Avengers team in these issues, plucked from multiple points in Avengers history, as well as our villain and a former villain who becomes an ally (I'm sorry, three former villains that becomes allies)!

This week we talk about two new characters that Kurt Busiek is introducing into the book.  The first is a young woman from Central America named Silverclaw and the second is a man of color who calls himself Triathlon!  They're helping the Avengers take on another obscure villain, Moses Magnum!