This is Past Was Close Behind, a feature that spotlights moments, exchanges, etc. from older comics that take on a brand new light when read in concert with later comic books or events. Basically, stuff that looks hilarious (or interesting) in hindsight. Today, we look at how the Masters of Evil considered pretending to be superheroes decades before the Thunderbolts and the Dark Avengers.One of the funny things about the Avengers is that they seem to be way too trusting when it comes to who they have join the team. After all, the team started as just a few superheroes tricked by Loki into fighting the Hulk, and when most of the team decided to take a break a year or so into their existence, they hired three super villains as their replacements! Two of them got their gigs by literally writing a letter saying, “Hey, we’d like to be Avengers please now that we’re no longer members of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.”Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley’s Thunderbolts debuted following the Onslaught crossover, where a number of the Marvel Universe’s main superhero teams were seemingly killed in a battle with a new villain, Onslaught (the interesting thing about the battle is that the X-Men were the only survivors of the battle, and yet no one really seemed to do much with the concept that the X-Men were the only survivors of a big battle that saw the most beloved heroes all dying. You’d think that would have worked to make the world hate the X-Men even MORE, right?).
This is Past Was Close Behind, a feature that spotlights moments, exchanges, etc. from older comics that take on a brand new light when read in concert with later comic books or events. Basically, stuff that looks hilarious (or interesting) in hindsight. Today, we look at how the Masters of Evil considered pretending to be superheroes decades before the Thunderbolts and the Dark Avengers.
One of the funny things about the Avengers is that they seem to be way too trusting when it comes to who they have join the team. After all, the team started as just a few superheroes tricked by Loki into fighting the Hulk, and when most of the team decided to take a break a year or so into their existence, they hired three super villains as their replacements! Two of them got their gigs by literally writing a letter saying, “Hey, we’d like to be Avengers please now that we’re no longer members of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.”
Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley’s Thunderbolts debuted following the Onslaught crossover, where a number of the Marvel Universe’s main superhero teams were seemingly killed in a battle with a new villain, Onslaught (the interesting thing about the battle is that the X-Men were the only survivors of the battle, and yet no one really seemed to do much with the concept that the X-Men were the only survivors of a big battle that saw the most beloved heroes all dying. You’d think that would have worked to make the world hate the X-Men even MORE, right?).
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