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Secret Avengers #29
RICK REMENDER (w) • GABRIEL HARDMAN (a)
Cover by ARTHUR ADAMS
• To prevent a death the Secret Avengers must risk starting a war!
• A secret romance heats up!
• A rivalry between two members threatens to jeopardize the mission!
• Will Hawkeye discover he has a spy on his team in time to prevent tragedy?

I’m hoping that Natasha’s at center stage on this cover means she’ll get some spotlight time this issue, but none of these solicitation bullets are obviously about her. She’s made a point of staying out of the petty team rivalries, and my money’s on the “secret romance” being Flash/Valkyrie. (Though I guess if you want to fret about those solitics I trolled with earlier, there is ample opportunity.)

No comment on the Art Adams pose, interesting choice of footwear.

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Steve: Clint, would you please…
Clint: Make a speech? No need, we all know each other… and my record stands.
Brian: Yes, “shooting things with accuracy” is far more impressive than “protector of the omniverse.”
Clint: Resume reciting doesn’t earn many comraderie points, Lord Fancy-crack, Ponce Protector of the Shire.
Brian: No? Perhaps smacking the new boss around would!
Natasha: Ridiculous. Pack dogs jockeying for attention.
Brunnhilde: Were you “men” behaving in this bickering fashion in Asgard, you would be sent to polish dung from true warriors’ lavatories.

I really liked this moment from the last issue of Secret Avengers. I know there’s been quite a bit of “but Natasha is more qualified to lead the team than either of them” and it’s true, but she’s got too much self-confidence to play the traditional “anything you can do I can do better” neener-neener Hawkeye role.

Remender has mentioned wanting to develop a friendship between Brunnhilde and Natasha. In future issues, something is supposed to happen to Valkyrie to give them more common ground.

From Secret Avengers #22, by Rick Remender and Gabriel Hardman.

SECRET AVENGERS #22 
RICK REMENDER (W) • GABRIEL HARDMAN (A)
COVER BY ARTHUR ADAMS
ISSUE #22 VARIANT COVER BY GABRIEL HARDMAN
• The ALL-NEW era of Secret Avengers begins here!
• Enter Captain Britain and Giant-Man as Hawkeye becomes the new leader!
• Sentinels hunt mutants, Adaptoids hunt Avengers!
SECRET AVENGERS #23
RICK REMENDER (W) • GABRIEL HARDMAN (A)
COVER BY ARTHUR ADAMS
• Who are The Descendants?
• In this issue an Avenger will die to find out!
• JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH TO FIND THE ONE THEY CALL “FATHER”!

Marvel seems to be responding to DC’s recent market dominance by double-shipping Avengers comics. Because we didn’t have enough Avengers comics!!

You can also start the death pool now, though at this early point I’m thinking fake-out. O’Grady is looking pretty expendable, though, depending on which Ant-Man Fraction’s using in Defenders.

Source: marvel.com

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The new creative team on Secret Avengers is announced— Rick Remender and Gabriel Hardman. Anyone who has been following X-Force understands why Remender was a natural choice, and he promises some interaction between the two secret superhero squads in his interview.

Captain Britain is joining the roster, finally making good on that promise in the Heroic Age one-shot, but the biggest change is new leader, Hawkeye! I like Clint (a lot), but wasn’t the point of Hawkeye and Mockingbird that he’s not exactly an easy fit into spywork? Also, I can’t help but notice that Clint’s rolling onto three Avengers teams and a new miniseries and Natasha’s still stuck as supporting cast for one book, but hopefully we’ll get more on that front as the convention goes on.