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All You Need to Know: New Avengers #26

Uhm, wow. That book went quick. This is going to be a short one. The good news? Alex Maleev's art does not disappoint. Everything looks sketchy and dreamy and gorgeous and is honestly the reason I paid my $3.22. Otherwise, the book is cotton candy: sweet and unsatisfying.

We start with Hawkeye waking up post-HoM outside the Avengers broken down mansion and setting up his infamous marker that we saw at the end of that series, with his costume and the arrow through the article about his death. Once that's finished, he does the perfectly smart thing and goes to see Doctor Strange. Because if you're really confused about your existence, hes the guy to see.

Spooky fingers are wiggled, the Eye of Aggamotto used and Clint is given a clean bill of resurrected health. Reasonably upset about Wanda killing him not once, but twice, he wants to go find her and shake her until answers come out. Doctor Strange advises against it, since really, what kind of answers is he expecting? It's just only going to get worse and it's not like anyone is going to take responsibility for a rather good idea rushed through the issues. After all, who would want to hear Wanda's side of things, isn't she just crazy?!

I digress.

Despite being Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Strange says he can't find Wanda and doesn't seem at all keen on going to investigate a woman who single handedly warped the reality he's sort of in charge of by being Sorcerer Supreme, so Clint goes on a quest. First to Genosha, which we never see and then to Wundagore Mountain where he rescues a woman from having her purse snatched. As someone else helps the mystery woman to her feet, she rises to reveal herself as- A GHOST RIDER AD! I mean, Wanda! Clint swoons.

Waking up, he's been carried to Wanda's humble apartment where she warns him against waking up her Aunt Agatha in the next room. Going through a series of head-holding and seductive poses, we find out that she's made a new life out of thin air for herself and appears to have no memory of the whole debacle she caused. Lucky her. Clint, upset by the lack of closure and the fact that Disassembled and House of M still are pinned on just some chick going cuckoo (women! I tells ya...), makes everything better by having sex with an obviously lost and very hot Wanda. Waking up, he decides to give her a mysterious exit when he notes the door that holds dear ol' Aunt Agatha who isn't supposed to be bothered; of course, wants to take a peek. His hand on the knob, Clint remembers Strange warning him that he might not really want to know 'the Truth' by this point, I mean, really and so we're left with him heading out into the street.

Well, the book is gorgeous, but nothing is answered and nothing is gained. Wanda is still some dizzy dame and Hawkeye is left to just bum around the MU with no one knowing if he's alive or dead. Thanks, Bendis.

Next issue: Revolution!