The Avenging Hour

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 …

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 plot…

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!  Lis…

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…

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...…

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 …

It's the Avengers teamed with their thinly veiled DC counterparts, the Squadron Supreme!  We're finally finishing up the plotline from the main title, as we see the two teams join together to fight t…

This week we're looking at the Avengers chapter of the Live Kree or Die crossover, which also appeared in Iron Man, Captain America and Quicksilver!  What can the Avengers do when the Lunatic Legion …

It's the Avengers vs the Squadron Supreme and one of the teams is mind controlled....guess which one?!  We also meet a new member of the Squadron who is NOT a thinly veiled version of a DC hero.  Com…

This week we're finishing up the first plotline for the new series and then we have to figure out who's going to be on the team!  It's time to choose a roster and the members of the team might surpri…

Boom!  It's now time for Volume 3, and we're thrilled to see Kurt Busiek and George Perez as our new creative team!  We'll talk about how Heroes Reborn ended and then dive into a plot with every sing…

We've already reached the end of Volume 2 and we bid adieu to this weird collection of heroes and villains.  We have one issue to clean up all the plotlines and then two parts of two different four p…

Walt Simonson is here and he's doing his best to try and clean up the mess he's been left!  The Avengers fight the Masters of Evil, Loki plots, and its civil war amongst our heroes!

It's the end of the Liefeld era on the Avengers, as Walt Simonson gets invited back to try and clean up a mess....again.  He'll do his best, but with only five issues to work with, can he put this bo…

The Avengers are ready now to deal with the Hulk!  Imagine the excitement of Thor fighting the Hulk for an entire issue with no subplots!  It's the issue that takes 3 minutes to read!

Heroes Reborn continues as our new team fights a new Kang and Mantis combination!  It's like The Crossing, but much shorter and with no crossovers!  And if you thought the Crossing was drenched in 90…

Volume 1 is now officially in the rearview mirror and we're talking about Heroes Reborn from 1996!  We'll discuss the end of the Onslaught saga and then how we got here, where Rob Liefeld has the pow…

Its our last special episode before we move on to Volume 2 of the Avengers, and we have not just Daryl from the X-Factor Files podcast, but his cohost Phillip as well!  We always love having Daryl jo…

We're almost through our retrospective of the first 33 years of the Avengers!  This episode we'll discuss the annuals, giant size issues, the West Coast Avengers and all of the limited series!  We al…

Welcome back to the retrospective that will never end, as we discuss the rest of the first volume of the Avengers (at least the main title) and all of the creators from the 70s to the 90s!