Mighty Avengers #7-11 (2008): Venom Bomb

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Mighty Avengers #7 starts off with Spider-Woman sharing the Elektra skrull body with Tony Stark, and sharing with him that her other team–the anti-registration New Avengers–believe that there is a full scale skrull invasion underway, and they think the reason Tony has been such a dick lately is because he’s a skrull. In return for the information, Tony invites her to join the Mighty Avengers–so she can be around him and the team and see if their behaviors are off.

But none of that is central to the action here. The two main stories that wind through these issues are: (1) Sentry’s wife thinks her husband is losing his mind again, and tells Tony to figure out how to kill Sentry if he goes full-on nuts.

(2) Doctor Doom is scheming with Morgan Le Fey, and while he’s doing it one of his satellites accidentally drops a bomb of symbiotes in New York.

After fighting off the Venom Bomb, the team goes to Latveria for more big action scenes.

There’s literally three of those spreads in a row. Are you getting the idea? Where New Avengers is thoughtful and character driven, Mighty is a lot of punching. But both are good, don’t get me wrong.

During the battle, Sentry, Iron Man and Doom end up literally falling into Doom’s time platform. We then get a kinda pointless issue that takes place in New York 20 years earlier (issue #10), which ends with them going back to their own time stream. It’s stylized as a dot-matrix-printed comic.

It’s not a bad diversion, there’s just not much to it. Doom manipulates their return to the present so that he arrives a half hour before Tony and Sentry, and captures the rest of the Mighty Avengers.

During the fight, we see Spider-Woman is manifesting new abilities. But at the risk of spoiling something you should have read twenty years ago, she’s a skrull.