Great cover. It got the tribute treatment.
The Avengers want a lineup change.
Wasp wants some girlfriends.
Damn skippy. She compiles a list of potentials.
One of them will join. Two were already on the team. Guess who joins?
But first…
Hawkeye joins the band. Thor thinks of Spider-Man…
…Who says, “No,” but does so with some nice humility.
This is such a well-written character issue. Too often, “guest stars galore” stories sacrifice the truth of each character for the sake of cramming in stunt casting.
This was a great, great issue. It had lots of guest stars, a cover that fun as hell, and, the return of Fabian Stankowicz, who can’t even beat up a Dazzler.
The women take him on.
It’s a pretty funny fight.
She-Hulk is the one who has the final blow.
And for the first time in Avengers history, we ended up with a lineup where the second strongest person on the team was female and the least powerful was male.
Hawkeye immediately feels threatened.
Bonus picture: The cover of the issue ends up being the cover of an issue!
This is one of the best single-issue stories of all time, according to this objectively accurate list. It’s also one of my favorite Avengers Lineup Change issues of all time.
Favorite Avenger Line-Up Change Issue of All-Time: ‘Avengers’#181- “On the Matter of Heroes!” ( that’s “On the Matter of Heroes!”, not “On the Matter of Hores!” as I had originally typed! ) Second Favorite Avenger Line-Up Change Issue of All-Time: ‘Avengers’ #16, a not half-bad copy of which I am preparing to purchase for the reasonable sum of $180, in the near future. Actually, I thought that the very following issue-#222- with Thor single-handedly beating the living shit out of the Masters of Evil, ( Marvel’s direct answer to the Legion of Doom, of course ) had it all over this rather estrogen-heavy issue. But- to each their own!