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@ Newsarama-- Dark Avengers #174

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Last week over at Newsarama, I wrote a few words on Dark Avengers #174.

Shalvey draws the fight between knock-offs of Spider-Man, Thor and Hawkeye and the real Luke Cage but there’s this looming sense of been there/done that in this issue.  After an early great line for Luke Cage — “Did I just see Troll riding a dragon?” — as he and Hank Pym try to find the lost-in-time Thunderbolts, the introduction and fight with the new Dark Avengers falls back into Superhero Comics 101 and images of heroes (or hero imitators) fighting heroes. 

Thunderbolts/Dark Avengers is a book that now has been around forever but that seems to need to be reinvigorated every 2 or 3 years now.  I still love the original concept of this book under Busiek and Nicieza but it's not been a book I've had an easy time trying to get back into over the last 3-4 years.