Today's Lunchtime Reading West Coast Avengers 32 Buried Monsters!

 West Coast Avengers 32 Buried Monsters!

Published: May 10th, 1988

Writer: Steve Englehart Penciler: Al Milgrom

Cover Artist: Al Milgrom

The Wasp visits the West Coast Avengers compound to help out in lieu of the recent absence of Iron Man (who is off fighting the Armor Wars). There is a lot of tension in the air at the HQ, but everyone welcomes Janet with open arms. Mockingbird suggests that what everyone needs is a vacation to help wind down from recent events. She arranges for everyone to make a field trip to visit the Grand Canyon.

But Mockingbird has an ulterior motive for this. She knows that this section of Arizona is the last known appearance of Hamilton Slade, the Night Rider. She has not told Hawkeye the truth about what happened in 1876, nor does she tell him about her recent fight with the modern Night Rider the evening prior. Everyone dresses in their civilian attire (with costumes underneath) and goes to the Grand Canyon. Bobbi leads them on a trail that takes them past a very specific geographical location. While nobody is watching, she drops a mini-bomb down into the canyon which awakens the huge cave-beast known as Yetrigar.

The Avengers snap to attention and begin fighting the savage Yetrigar. Mockingbird sneaks off to go find Hamilton Slade. Moon Knight takes note of Mockingbird's exit and follows her.

She finds Hamilton Slade and accuses him of being the Night Rider. Hamilton seems to have no idea what she is talking about. Flying into a rage, she lunges at Hamilton and begins ferociously beating on him.

Moon Knight arrives and has to pull her back. He offers to pay for any damages that may have been caused by Mockingbird's attack and brings her back to the Yetrigar fight. He asks her the nature behind her attack against Slade. As the two leave the archaeological camp where Hamilton had been working, the spirit of Lincoln Slade takes control of his descendant and begins laughing mockingly behind Bobbi's back.

The rest of the team (along with the Wasp) makes short work of Yetrigar. The Wasp zips around him distracting him with her bio-stings while Hawkeye hog-ties him with some harpoon arrows. Hank Pym places a miniature device in Yetrigar's ear, which forces the lumbering creature to fall over unconscious. He then shrinks him to a more manageable size.

The Mandalorian Chapter 14 the Tragedy Breakdown and Review

Chapter Titles:

9. The Marshal directed by Jon Favreau
10. The Passenger directed by Peyton Reed
11. The Heiress directed by Bryce Dallas Howard
12. The Siege directed by Carl Weathers
13. The Jedi directed by Dave Filoni
14. The Tragedy directed by Robert Rodriguez

 

 Chapter 14: The Tragedy

 

The Mandalorian takes Grogu to the ancient temple on Tython, and places him on the seeing stone at its center. Grogu starts meditating, and is surrounded by a protective energy field. Boba Fett soon arrives with the mercenary Fennec Shand, who the Mandalorian had previously left for dead on Tatooine. Fett explains that the armor worn by Cobb Vanth belongs to him, as his father Jango was a Mandalorian foundling. The Mandalorian agrees to return the armor in exchange for the safety of Grogu, just as Moff Gideon arrives and deploys stormtroopers to attack the group. Fett, Fennec, and the Mandalorian are able to repel the stormtroopers, but Gideon destroys the Razor Crest from orbit before sending his droid Dark Troopers to capture Grogu. They take him just as he finishes meditating and the energy field disappears. To honor their deal, Fett and Fennec promise to help the Mandalorian get Grogu back. They travel in Fett's ship Slave I to Navarro, and ask for Dune's help in breaking criminal Migs Mayfeld out of New Republic prison as the latter might be able to locate Moff Gideon's ship.

 

The Mandalorian is a television series that premiered on Disney+ on November 12, 2019. Set in the Star Wars universe, the series takes place five years after the events of Return of the Jedi and follows a Mandalorian bounty hunter beyond the reaches of the New Republic.

 

The second season of the American streaming television series The Mandalorian stars Pedro Pascal as the title character, a bounty hunter trying to return "The Child" to its home. It is part of the Star Wars franchise, set after the events of Return of the Jedi. The season was produced by Lucasfilm, Fairview Entertainment, and Golem Creations, with Jon Favreau serving as showrunner.

 

The eight-episode season premiered on the streaming service Disney+ on October 30, 2020. A third season was confirmed in April 2020.

Today's Lunchtime Reading West Coast Avengers 31 The Friday Night Frights!

 West Coast Avengers 31 The Friday Night Frights!

Published: April 10th, 1988

Writer: Steve Englehart Penciler: Al Milgrom

Cover Artist: Al Milgrom

The Texas Twister is mad with grief over the loss of his girlfriend Vicki "Shooting" Starr, who turned out to be a demon a while back. And he's teamed up with the Phantom Rider, who seems to be possessed by the spirit of his ancestor, the Night Rider that Mockingbird dropped off a cliff after he raped her. Together, they try to summon a denizen from the spirit world to help them, and it turns out to be Arkon.

Back at the West Coast Avengers compound, Iron Man picks a fight with Moon Knight for making out with Tigra in front of him. Hawkeye asks what that's really about, and Iron Man refuses to open up, but asks Hawkeye to continue to trust him. This is spillover from the Armor Wars storyline in Iron Man, and it continues when Henry Pym comes running with news that the East Coast Avengers are on the line. It turns out that they just found out that Iron Man recently got into a fight with (the former) Captain America.

Before they can follow up on that, though, they are attacked by Arkon, who is mad that Wonder Man appeared in a movie featuring him. Arkon has a nuclear device that he says he'll detonate if the other Avengers interfere in his grudge match. While the rest of the Avengers are enjoying the fight...

...Mockingbird is lured away by Phantom Rider, and they get into their own fight.

Wonder Man eventually convinces Arkon that he'll convince the movie studios to stop making Arkon movies, and Mockingbird gets defeated by the Phantom Rider, but he opts to not kill her yet, and instead leaves her dangling off a cliff. She's able to rescue herself.

The Mandalorian Chapter 12 and 13 Breakdown and Review

Chapter Titles:

9. The Marshal directed by Jon Favreau
10. The Passenger directed by Peyton Reed
11. The Heiress directed by Bryce Dallas Howard
12. The Siege directed by Carl Weathers
13. The Jedi directed by Dave Filoni

 

 

Chapter 12: The Siege

 

The Razor Crest requires further repairs before it can reach Corvus, so the Mandalorian and the child take a detour to Nevarro where they are re-united with their allies Cara Dune and Greef Karga. While the Razor Crest is being repaired, the Mandalorian is shown how much things have improved on Nevarro since he was last there, under the stewardship of Karga as magistrate and Dune as marshal. The last challenge that they are facing is a remaining Imperial base on the planet, and the Mandalorian agrees to help them destroy it. Inside the base they discover that it has been used for so-far unsuccessful experimentation on the child's blood, which has a high M-count. They destroy the base and escape pursued by stormtroopers on speeder bikes and TIE fighters. Dune and Karga manage to stop the speeder bikes while the Mandalorian destroys the TIE fighters with the repaired Razor Crest. The Mandalorian and the child leave for Corvus, unaware that an Imperial spy has planted a tracker on the Razor Crest for Moff Gideon.

 

 Chapter 13: The Jedi

 

The Mandalorian and the child arrive at the city of Calodan on the planet Corvus to find the population living in fear of the city's magistrate, Morgan Elsbeth, and her guards, including a hired mercenary named Lang. Elsbeth offers to give the Mandalorian a spear of Beskar steel in exchange for killing Ahsoka. The Mandalorian finds Ahsoka outside the town and presents the child to her. Using The Force, Ahsoka determines that the child's name is Grogu, and that he had begun training as a Jedi before the rise of the Empire. She agrees to continue his training if the Mandalorian helps defeat Elsbeth. They overpower the guards, free the citizens, and the Mandalorian kills Lang. Ahsoka confronts Elsbeth, and demands to know the whereabouts of her master, Grand Admiral Thrawn. Afterwards, Ahsoka refuses to train Grogu due to his close attachment to the Mandalorian. Instead, she directs them to an ancient temple on the planet Tython where Grogu can use the Force to decide his own fate. She also gives the spear to the Mandalorian.

 

The Mandalorian is a television series that premiered on Disney+ on November 12, 2019. Set in the Star Wars universe, the series takes place five years after the events of Return of the Jedi and follows a Mandalorian bounty hunter beyond the reaches of the New Republic.

 

The second season of the American streaming television series The Mandalorian stars Pedro Pascal as the title character, a bounty hunter trying to return "The Child" to its home. It is part of the Star Wars franchise, set after the events of Return of the Jedi. The season was produced by Lucasfilm, Fairview Entertainment, and Golem Creations, with Jon Favreau serving as showrunner.

 

The eight-episode season premiered on the streaming service Disney+ on October 30, 2020. A third season was confirmed in April 2020.

 

 

 

 

The Mandalorian Chapter 11 The Heiress Review and Breakdown

Chapter Titles:

9. The Marshal directed by Jon Favreau
10. The Passenger directed by Peyton Reed
11. The Heiress directed by Bryce Dallas Howard

 

Chapter 11: The Heiress

 

Once at Trask, the Frog Lady reunites with her husband and the Mandalorian boards a fishing ship following a clue he had on other Mandalorians, which reveals itself as an ambush. They are rescued by three other Mandalorians whose leader, Bo-Katan Kryze, enlists his help in seizing weapons from an Imperial freighter in exchange for information on the Jedi. After boarding the ship, Bo-Katan reveals that their main objective is to capture the ship along with the weapons for their war effort to reconquer Mandalore, and realizing that, Gideon instructs the captain to crash the ship. His efforts are stopped by Bo-Katan, who inquires him about the whereabouts of the Darksaber, but the captain commits suicide. Bo-Katan offers the Mandalorian a place in her ranks, but he refuses and she instructs him to meet the Jedi Ahsoka Tano in the city of Calodan on the forest planet of Corvus. With the Razor Crest partially repaired, the Mandalorian and the child depart from Trask to continue their journey.

 

  

The Mandalorian is a television series that premiered on Disney+ on November 12, 2019. Set in the Star Wars universe, the series takes place five years after the events of Return of the Jedi and follows a Mandalorian bounty hunter beyond the reaches of the New Republic.

 

The second season of the American streaming television series The Mandalorian stars Pedro Pascal as the title character, a bounty hunter trying to return "The Child" to its home. It is part of the Star Wars franchise, set after the events of Return of the Jedi. The season was produced by Lucasfilm, Fairview Entertainment, and Golem Creations, with Jon Favreau serving as showrunner.

 

The eight-episode season premiered on the streaming service Disney+ on October 30, 2020. A third season was confirmed in April 2020.

The Mandalorian Chapter 10 The Passenger Review and Breakdown [Full Spoilers]

Chapter Titles:

9. The Marshal directed by Jon Favreau
10. The Passenger directed by Peyton Reed

 

Chapter 10: The Passenger

 

The Mandalorian agrees to take a frog-like creature and her eggs from Tatooine to the estuary moon Trask, where her husband will fertilize the eggs, in exchange for information on other Mandalorians. Due to the eggs' fragility, they must travel at slow "sub-light" speeds. On their journey, they are confronted by X-wing fighters who force the Mandalorian to a nearby icy planet because he is wanted by the New Republic for his role in a prison break; he crash-lands on the planet. While the Mandalorian fixes the ship, the child stumbles upon numerous eggs inside an ice cave which hatch to reveal a swarm of spider-like creatures. The Mandalorian, child, and passenger are trapped in the Razor Crest, the Mandalorian's ship, until the X-wing pilots find them and kill the creatures. They explain that because the Mandalorian helped apprehend his accomplices from the prison break, they will drop the arrest warrant and leave him with a warning. After the Mandalorian finishes the repairs, the tattered Razor Crest takes off and resumes its journey to Trask.

 

The Mandalorian is a television series that premiered on Disney+ on November 12, 2019. Set in the Star Wars universe, the series takes place five years after the events of Return of the Jedi and follows a Mandalorian bounty hunter beyond the reaches of the New Republic.

 

The second season of the American streaming television series The Mandalorian stars Pedro Pascal as the title character, a bounty hunter trying to return "The Child" to its home. It is part of the Star Wars franchise, set after the events of Return of the Jedi. The season was produced by Lucasfilm, Fairview Entertainment, and Golem Creations, with Jon Favreau serving as showrunner.

 

The eight-episode season premiered on the streaming service Disney+ on October 30, 2020. A third season was confirmed in April 2020.

The Mandalorian Chapter 9 The Marshal Review and Breakdown [Full Spoilers]

Chapter Titles:

9. The Marshal directed by Jon Favreau

 

The Mandalorian has been tasked with returning his charge, a child, to its people, the Jedi. He begins searching for other Mandalorians who he believes can help him find the Jedi, and is directed to a rumored Mandalorian operating out of the Tatooine town Mos Pelgo. There he learns that there is no Mandalorian in Mos Pelgo, but is confronted by marshal Cobb Vanth who wears Mandalorian armor. Vanth explains that he freed his town from the control of the Mining Collective using this armor, which he bought from Jawas in the desert. The town is now frequently attacked by a krayt dragon. Vanth agrees to give the Mandalorian armor back to its people in exchange for help killing the krayt dragon. The Mandalorian arranges a agreement between the villagers of Mos Pelgo and a local clan of Tusken Raiders to work together to kill the krayt dragon in exchange for peace between the groups. They lure out the krayt dragon, which is ultimately killed by the Mandalorian. He leaves with Vanth's armor, watched by a scarred figure.

 

  

The Mandalorian is a television series that premiered on Disney+ on November 12, 2019. Set in the Star Wars universe, the series takes place five years after the events of Return of the Jedi and follows a Mandalorian bounty hunter beyond the reaches of the New Republic.

 

The second season of the American streaming television series The Mandalorian stars Pedro Pascal as the title character, a bounty hunter trying to return "The Child" to its home. It is part of the Star Wars franchise, set after the events of Return of the Jedi. The season was produced by Lucasfilm, Fairview Entertainment, and Golem Creations, with Jon Favreau serving as showrunner.

 

The eight-episode season premiered on the streaming service Disney+ on October 30, 2020. A third season was confirmed in April 2020.