Status Updates From The Avengers Omnibus, Vol. 1

Two-part Swordsman and Mandarin yarn in 19 and 20 a little drug out but pretty good. Wally Wood inks helped get Heck's art up on its feet. Iron Man cameo--even if a false image--a bone tossed to fans missing the heavy hitters. Book is starting to show loss of momentum with this protracted two-parter.

Chugging along. Enjoyed the Commissar issue 18 a lot and have for decades. Good John Birchy yarn. Kooky Quartet doing fine, though Hawkeye's snark already old. Heck's art goes up and down. I'm hanging in through 202, so gird up the loins of your imagination!

Just read #16, the Old Order Changeth! The classic era has passed; the Kooky Quartet era is dawning.