Today’s Lunchtime Reading West Coast Avengers 30 None So Blind...

 West Coast Avengers 30 None So Blind...

Published: March 10th, 1988

Writer: Al Milgrom Penciler: Al Milgrom

Cover Artist: Al Milgrom and Mike Machlan

Wonder Man is reading his nephews a bed time fable, “The Blind Man and the Elephant” where the moral of the story is, “there are none so blind as those that will not see.”

On the long flight back to the west coast, the Quinjet is attacked by some high tech robots. Wonder Man should have no problems taking care of the robots, but follows procedure and radios it in the West Coast Avengers and realizes there are hundreds of these robots. The West Coast Avengers take off to Wonder Man’s last known position after he goes radio silent. Simon is taken about a ship by an alien race known as the Sligs, a small but mighty race hell-bent on conquest.

Each Avenger must battle the Examiner to analyze their powers and abilities and Wonder Man is first and destroys it without issue

The Examiner is reassembled and Wonder Man is put into stasis and Tigra is the next to be tested. Tigra uses the Examiner’s own strength against and Mockingbird is next. Mockingbird so no problems defeating him so Hawkeye is next, he makes quick work of the Examiner. Iron Man is removed from stasis and is next with the Examiner reaching his power capacity. Iron Man uses an arrow left behind by Hawkeye to magnetize the mighty robot.

Dr. Pym is next and uses his power to shrink the Examiner down to the size of a rabbit and destroys it with a sledge hammer. Moon Knight is the final Avenger to face it and realizes that this dimension that they were taken to for this test is full of moons, thousands of them.

Moon Knight uses the power of those moons to destroy the Examiner one last time, the Sligs ship losing their dimension hopping ability and the Avengers are returned to Earth. The information is sent back to their home where like the blind men from the fable, put together what these Avengers must look like from the data sent back and halt all invasion plans for Earth.