Mighty Avengers #25

Dan Slott actually makes it kind of hard to root for anyone in the brain battle he sets up in the newest issue of Mighty Avengers. The issue opens with some flashbacks of Hank Pym and Bill Foster working on some new inventions, and Pym blows off the Wasp so that he can keep working on this life-changing device. Somehow this invention relates to Pym's new lab, so now that it has become unstuck from reality, Pym needs that invention back. The problem is that it is in the Baxter Building, and Reed Richards won't give it back. Reed comes off as a real jerk. He belittles Pym, states that he knows more about Pym particles than Hank, and refuses to hand over the item. Pym, for his part, comes across as a raging doofus too. He yells at Jocasta for disconnecting the lab from Earth and then starts yelling at Reed about how he needs this device so badly. At this point, I don't think I'd follow either one of them. I do like how Slott has Vision and Stature second guessing Pym, while Hercules and Cho just go along with the plan immediately. Vision comes around quickly after viewing another of Pym's inventions, but the reader is clueless as to what it is that so thoroughly changed Vision's mind. I'm ok with the overally story (Mighty Avengers breaking in to FF HQ) but I don't like how the two geniuses are looking at this point. I do have faith that Slott will straighten things out.

Meanwhile, US Agent and Quicksilver are dispatched to China, where they meet up with another member of Blackjack for another assignment. I hadn't been expecting this type of approach to the team, where members are sent out on specific jobs by G.R.A.M.P.A., but it could end up being decent, especially if different specialist characters can join up with the Avengers as needed. I'm not sold on Blackjack yet, but I think that is just because I'm not familiar enough with them.

Stephen Segovia's pencils are wildly inconsistent. At his best, he looks like Leinil Francis Yu on a good day. Other parts of the book has too much cross-hatching on the figures that renders them unrecognizable. He also has a habit of making his female characters stick out their T&A whenever they can.

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