snap judgments

Another New Avengers, go fig. I guess the ‘Disassembling’ is this whole Superhero Registration Act and that the slap dash group of heroes they put in the book don’t.. really think alike. Especially when one of them is a megalomaniac in denial. Who knew they wouldn’t all just get along like marketing wanted them to?

Cap is shown at a drawing board in an abandoned warehouse indulging in a small pity party. ‘They should have left me in the ice,’ he says and complains that more people get thier news from the Daily Show than anywhere else. This inner fairly self-indulgent monologue allows a squad of SHIELD agents to get with in arms reach of him with weapons drawn. Oh, sure, Cap says it’s because they are trained ‘Cape Killers‘, trained to sneak up on him and have a lot of training, but they still all fall pretty well as he takes them out single handedly. Good ‘training’ there, guys.

Thankfully, good ol’ Dum Dum Dugan gives Cap an out in the raid, Cap runs, blacks out and is woken up by Falcon in a secret hideout set by Nick Fury long ago. When Cap comes to, his first word is ‘Murf’ and it took me a minute to realize that just might be a onomatopoeia of the kind of thing someone might say when they wake up. I spent an afternood wondering who ‘Murf’ was. Ah well. The Falcon (wait, after Priest’s book, he’s not dead, right? They cleared that up? I’m going to go with Yes because I’m a hopeful kind of gal) finally knocks some sense in to Captain America, reminding him that OF COURSE, he’s on Cap’s side in this and OF COURSE the Superhero Registration Act is a bad idea! The Falcon calls Iron Man on being a sellout, which is fairly righteous, but the use of the word ‘brotha” and ‘Ya dig?’ sound a little too phoney to me.

So they hook themselves up with Fury’s leftovers at the Hideout in the sewers (where everything cool is kept) and go to collect some Avengers for avenging. First stop?

Hank Pym.

And the best part is, he’s just as surprised at you are. Captain America apparently holds some respect for the guy, enough to seek him out first when assembling a team to go against everyone else and their mom. But you see, Cap wasn’t listening when Civil War #1 was around and didn’t know Pym followed party line. Because he’s a joiner, really. He even contacted the authorities to send more ‘Cape Killers’ to come get the two, because he’d just go along quietly. Cap throws his shield at his nose and they both jump out the window, leaving the SHIELD dragon lady to soothe Pym’s poor ego over the affair. ‘Don’t kick yourself, Pym. You did good,’ she tells him. ‘Shut up,’ he tells her off screen.

More Assembling/Disassembling to follow.

All you need to know? Captain America is really discouraged with the American public, Falcon’s totally on his side and they are looking for likeminded heroes while SHIELD has ‘Cape Killers’ on their trail.

Shorter than the last one because, thankfully, more things got done.