This week is the end of the Chuck Austen run and we celebrate by welcoming esteemed author and comics expert Jason R. Lady to help us talk about his short run and the New Invaders!

I hate this argument. Mephisto killed Mockingbird…did the Avengers put him in prison? Was Kang ever put on trial? Why didn’t they kill the time vortex Dr. Druid jumped into?

This introduction for the Blazing Skull by Scott Kolins is brilliant! Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour #avengers

Ha! She’s got you there Cap. Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour #avengers

Someone isn’t having a good holiday but hopefully our amazing listeners and followers are! Hope everyone enjoys this time with friends and/or family! Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour

So literally hours after becoming Captain Britain, Kelsey’s identity has been found out, which puts her children’s lives in danger. And it was Brian Braddock who used her real name! That must void the contract she had with Brian and Meggan. I’d certainly contact my lawyer.

I would have felt that he deserved it had Kelsey stabbed him with the fence post she’s carrying around. Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour #avengers

I don’t love Jan at giant-size, but her talking to the people by her is sooo Janet van Dyne and I do love that. Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour #avengers

I’m really not a fan of the idea that, if you haven’t had the exact same experience as someone else, you can’t have empathy for their pain. Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour #avengers

The new Captain Britain in not messing around! So this explains why Thunderball was acting so weird….what’s Kelsey’s excuse for quoting old poems while fighting for her life?

I just don’t think Jan would be THIS BAD with this new power. But Tony flying around by holding one boot makes it all worthwhile. Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour #avengers

I’m not the biggest fan of this Captain Britain, but she got done dirty. Her logic is sound and I likely would have chosen the same. Thanks a lot Meghan and Brian! Way to screw over your champion!

I think that shadowy figure is supposed to be Brian Braddock but the silhouette looks off. Did the Red Guardian come and spirit away her corpse? Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour

Pro tip: Grabbing someone by the arm is never cool. Doing it when you’re trying to prove you’re not abusive is even worse. Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour #avengers #chuckausten

I do not understand this scene at all. First of all, Hank Pym does not fit the description Hawkeye is giving at all. He is not an abuser, but a mentally ill man who hit his wife once in the middle of a psychotic episode.

I don’t understand why writers insist on making Henry Pym a giant dick, when other writers like Steve Englehart and Kurt Busiek have shown how much work Pym put into himself to atone for his past and be a better man.

Is Captain America this bad with kids? I feel like we’ve seen him relate to them better, but then this one did just lose his mom while she was protecting Cap. Awkward! Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast

I really like Hawkeye’s response here. He understand what his friend is going through but won’t continue to be his punching bag, and how often do people die in Avengers comics, especially civilians? Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday!

I don’t often defend Hawkeye, but I do feel bad that Cap jumped down his throat. Maybe if you don’t want people to come in, you should lock the door Cap? Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast

Cap is in a very bad mood this issue, but calling this dead woman stupid is not a good look. I’m not saying don’t speak ill of the dead, I’m just saying give it a few days at least! Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics

This week the Lionheart of Avalon continues, with the introduction of a new Captain Britain and some of the most off characterizations in the history of the title. Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast

Has Hawkeye seen an Errol Flynn movie? When he was introduced in the 1960s and was probably born in the 1930s, I would say yes. But the 2004 Hawkeye, likely born in the 1970s? Doubtful. Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday!

So Thunderball (we will learn) is not actually Thunderball so I get why he’s talking like that, but why is Kelsey talking the same way? Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour #avengers

I really like this narrative device…She-Hulk, caught at an accident, seeing the Wasp fighting because the Wasp is so tall. Viewing a scene we’ve already witnessed from a different angle is great storytelling.

The Avengers have been international heroes before…they worked for the UN from the Larry Hama run on the book until the Black Widow dissolved the team after Onslaught. But they’ve never felt international. Their membership is overwhelmingly American and we don’t see them in other countries often.

Wow. That is a big Wasp. That’s gonna require a giant can of Raid. Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour #avengers #chuckausten #oliviercoipel #wasp

This is the sort of scene that makes me appreciate Chuck Austen. Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour #avengers #chuckausten #oliviercoipel #captainamerica #hawkeye

I know Kelsey Leigh has a scar and I know I’m not as familiar with London as I am American cities, but would EVERYONE really stop and stare? I feel like most people don’t pay that much attention to other people.

Has anyone captured Hawkeye better than this? Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour #avengers #chuckausten #oliviercoipel #hawkeye

I will give Chuck Austen this: I don’t hate this conversation and both characters have a definite voice so you can tell who is who by what they’re saying. Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour

We introduce the woman destined to be the new Captain Britain. She’s got some physical feature that defines her personality, but I can’t remember what it is. Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast

No more fooling around! This week we get down to business with the first two issues of Chuck Austen’s run, with the beginning of the story, “The Lionheart of Avalon”! Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast

Vision is in 3/4 of these group shots. He clearly has a great agent. Back to comics tomorrow! Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour #avengers

Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it. Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour #avengers #scarletwitch

I think the Scarlet Witch burned through the page to ask the Wasp why she warranted an illustration when she’s not in the book. Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour #avengers #wasp #scarletwitch

I think the Vision is using his right hand to billow his cape for dramatic effect. Unemotional android my butt. He’s always been a drama queen. Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour #avengers #vision

Dave Cockrum is credited for doing the cover for the novel, but there are also character illustrations at every chapter. I can’t find for sure who did them…I’ll be posting them this week. Do they also look like Cockrum’s work?

There’s one more week before Chuck Austen, and this week we’re checking out the second Avengers novel, this one written by an actual Avengers scribe! It’s much better although still a little odd. We break it down in this week’s episode!

This parody makes a lot more sense if you were around in the ‘60’s and 70’s and knew the original ad campaign. Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour #avengers #zoom #tigra

I am always here for a joke about how Mantis talks. Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour #avengers #mantis

That’s a really big Green Goblin watching over you while you sleep. Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour #avengers #foom

Rick Hoberg will actually start drawing for Marvel in a few years before moving to DC and other publishers. He’s also worked in animation. And it all started in FOOM! Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics

Not much to post this week with a novel, so here’s some more pages from FOOM….man, I miss these magazines. They were an interesting idea and I miss Marvel trying new things like this. Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics

We’re doing another offbeat episode this week! This time we’re talking about the first Avengers novel ever written, which came out in 1967. The author was legendary comic book writer Otto Binder, who wrote a slew of comics, but never the Avengers, and it shows!

These are the jokes folks! I mean, I think they are? The book seems to think they are. Anyway, what do you think the ‘H’ stands for? Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour #avengers #foom

Are those stink lines coming off Hawkeye? I mean, he must get hella sweaty and that costume looks quite warm. Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour #avengers #foom

Dave Cockrum draws some Avengers! It’s a shame he never had a run on the book. Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour

“But of course Mr. Stark would never be caught drinking! Perish the thought!” Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour #avengers #foom

If you win the contest with the best script, you win the page of art with your script lettered into it. That would be so cool! Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics #podcast #avenginghour #avengers #foom

In an effort to put off the Chuck Austen Avengers issues for as long as possible, this week we’re going back to the 1970’s to examine a special Avengers themed issue of FOOM! Listen to The Avenging Hour on all your favorite podcast providers! New episodes every Monday! #comics #marvelcomics