Today's Lunchtime Reading: West Coast Avengers #17 Outta Time!

West Coast Avengers #17 Outta Time!

Published:

February 10, 1987

Writer: Steve Englehart Penciler: Al Milgrom Cover Artist: Al Milgrom

The West Coast Avengers fly out to Albuquerque to try to recruit Firebird as their sixth member. They leave Hank behind, not paying enough attention to how despondent he's been.

Hank dwelling on what Whirlwind told him, starts to contemplate suicide. During their flight to Albuquerque, Iron Man tells the team about Hank back in the old days and how essential he was in forming the Avengers and making the team up a permanent thing.  When the team gets to Bonita's apartment, they learn that she's been missing for over a month. In the process of searching for more information around town, they're ambushed by a group of villains apparently working for one called Dominus. The flying heat-generating Sunstroke claims to be human, using powers of his own devising, but explains that his cohorts Butte, Gila, and Cactus are merely artificial humanoids created by Dominus.

The Avengers gain the upper hand, but as they do, a mysterious force beam grabs the Desert Dwellers and whisks them away from the battle. Iron Man tracks them to a base hidden in a mountain in the Arizona desert and recognizes the uniform of the Desert Dwellers' boss inside as belonging to the alien Lucifer.

Dominus explains that Lucifer was his predecessor and that he won't fail in his inherited mission to enslave the world. To get the Avengers out of the way, as soon as they enter his chamber Dominus activates the Time Platform they stepped onto, a damaged version of Doctor Doom's device he found in the desert that can only travel backwards in time. Dominus laughs maniacally, confident that he has trapped the Avengers in the distant past.

Meanwhile, Hank Pym spends the day settling accounts and preparing to kill himself. Just as he's holding the gun to his head, he's interrupted by the sudden appearance of Bonita, now bearing the identity of La Espirita, who brings him a message of hope from God.

Today's Lunchtime Reading: West Coast Avengers #16 The Dive

West Coast Avengers #16 The Dive

Published:

January 10, 1987

Writer: Steve Englehart Penciler: Al Milgrom Cover Artist: Al Milgrom

 Tigra dives off the Golden Gate Bridge to show that she is no longer terrified of water

And when she gets back into their boat with Hank Pym, Damion Hellstrom and Patsy Walker (AKA Hellcat) they see the Harbor Patrol chasing someone swimming faster than their boast and out to the Pacific Ocean

A fight ensues on the boat, Damion with out his staff can only try and keep the boat steady, Hank cannot help so it is up to Tigra and Hellcat. Tiger Shark is getting the best of them until they tear his suit open so the water spills out and Tiger Shark needs water when he is on land.

While getting taken away by the Harbor Patrol, Tiger Shark taunts Hank Pym since he helped take him down way back in Avengers #230 and Hank tells his story of how he was never cut out to be a Super Hero and the frustrations he felt and took out on Jan (the Wasp), but now he is helping carry on the Avenger’s traditions helping the West Coast Avengers in a lab, not in a costume.

Tigra breaks it off with Hank, she is something different and unsure of what she wants, Hank starts to lose it, but pulls it together before going over the edge since he saw what happened to Quicksilver in West Coast Avengers Annual #1. Meanwhile, the rest of the West Coast Avengers are enjoying a quiet time together while Wonder Man prepares dinner for the team. Hawkeye wants to reach out to Firebird about joining the team since he botched it so badly the last time. Hank comes up with a plan to catch Whirlwind, Tiger Sharks old Master’s of Evil teammate, since he was supposed to hellp him escape earlier. So with the help of he SFPD, they set a trap for Whirlwind and he takes the bait.

Hellcat and Tigra grab Whirlwind but he is too fast and escapes their hold. He goes for the Psycho Circuit but Hellcat uses her claws to pull them away. Whirlwind goes after her but when he lands, Tigra tears off his buzz-saws.

During the fight, Whirlwind ends up on the roof where Hank Pym has been watching the fight. He taunts Hank about being a nobody and he wishes he would have faced Iron Man instead of him, Hank enraged goes after him but Whirlwind is too fast and hank falls off the building. Hellcat swoops in and saves Hank before he hits the ground!

When Hellcat asks him what happened up there, he says nothing at all…

Star Wars the Clone Wars Season 7 Episode 6 Spoiler Filled Review

Star Wars: The Clone Wars ran from October 3, 2008 until its final regular broadcast episode on March 2, 2013, following the show's cancellation at the end of its fifth season. A half-length season was available on Netflix on March 7, 2014, and some story arcs were released in several different mediums in the following years. The show was succeeded by Star Wars Rebels, which continued the story of Clone Wars era characters like Ahsoka Tano and Clone Captain Rex, but fans continued asking for more episodes of The Clone Wars.

The seventh season of the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series is a revival run of twelve new episodes that will air on Disney+ beginning on February 21st 2020. The revival was announced by the show's supervising director, Dave Filoni, on July 19, 2018 at San Diego Comic-Con, during a panel commemorating the show's tenth anniversary. The episodes will be a continuation of the series after it was cancelled in 2013, and will include the Siege of Mandalore. Series stars Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein, James Arnold Taylor, Dee Bradley Baker, Tom Kane, Sam Witwer, and more have all returned to lend their voices to the series.

Episode6 Deal No Deal

Rafa accepts an assignment to deliver a load of spice from Kessel to the Pyke crime syndicate on Oba Diah, and uses Trace and her self-built ship, the Silver Angel, for the job. When Ahsoka argues with Rafa that the Pykes might not claim just the spice, but the ship as well, Trace jettisons the shipment into hyperspace. Ahsoka tries to deceive the Pykes into thinking that they have been double-crossed by Kessel's king Yaruba, but she, Trace, and Rafa get captured instead.

Today's Lunchtime Reading West Coast Avengers #15 the Lady...or the Tigra

The West Coast Avengers are still trapped on a boat on the River of Death with Hellstrom, Hellcat and Master Pandemonium (see last issue) and he decides to reveal his origin. Mephisto saved his life after an auto accident and separated his soul into 5 pieces and gave them to five very different demons, in five different parts of reality. 

And finally lading in the Land Within (AKA the land of the Cat People) 

Master Pandemonium can sense one of his soul parts in the Land Within! The Cat People are not happy that the West Coast Avengers have come back to their world and have brought Master Pandemonium. Tigra can finally change from Greer back to Tigra, but is worried about losing herself in Tigra again. The Cat People decide to take the out-worlders to their king to face judgment. The King is upset that Tigra has not fulfilled her end of their bargain by killing Master Pandemonium.

The West Coast Avengers are not happy that Tigra has agreed to this deal since Avengers do not kill! Mockingbird figures out that it was Tigra that knocked her out when facing Master Pandemonium way back in West Coast Avengers #9. The Cat King tells Master Pandemonium that the reason they wanted Tigra to kill him was because they had one piece of his soul! 

The Cat King wants Tigra to complete their deal and takes her and Master Pandemonium to stadium the has his people remove the demons that Master Pandemonium uses for limbs. Tigra refuses to kill him because she is an Avenger! The Cat King strips away Tigra from Greer and locks her and the West Coast Avengers away. Hellcat gives her suit to Greer since she knows the Cat People and the Land Within better than her. 

The West Coast Avengers fight for their lives against the Cat People! Greer in the Hellcat suit beats the Cat People’s champion and during the battle the soul jar containing Tigra’s soul is broken and returns to Greer making her stronger, faster and with the mind of Greer Nelson. 

And in the confusion, Master Pandemonium gets the soul jar with one piece of his soul, smashes it and gets 1/5 of his soul back. Iron Man wants to chase him but Hawkeye says let him go since he beat Mephisto (at least 1/5^th) and they need to get back and have a BBQ since they got an Avenger back today!