Dec 17 2008
Mighty Avengers #20
Um, did I miss something? The promos for Mighty Avengers #20 promised two things: a Thor guest appearance and a surprise ending that no one would see coming. Thor appeared, that’s true. It was a good guest shot, too. He showed up at The Wasp’s funeral and gave a nice eulogy of sorts. Then he hauled Hank Pym off for a private time of mourning, away from the media circus that her funeral had become.
The surprise? Honestly, I don’t know what it was. This isn’t like the surprise at the end of Batman 680 which wasn’t very surprising, but at least I knew that revelation that Jezebel Jett was really the Black Glove was the surprise. Here? I honestly don’t know. That Hank Pym was angry with Tony Stark? That he chastised him at the funeral? Hawkeye yelling at Norman Osborn? Osborn smiling a little? This has to be the biggest oversell I can ever remember in comics promotion.
Ranting aside, it wasn’t a bad issue. Not at all. But you can’t promise something that big and deliver absolutely nothing without disappointing some fans. Fans with blogs; I’m just saying.