[Kaewin]

And now Avengers 71. And this is an important book. Why you ask? Because this is book 40. I have only 199 left to go. Dropping below 200 seems like a big hurdle for me. I have 6 books on the way so I am doing pretty well.


Avengers 71

"Endgame"

Writer Roy Thomas, Artist Sal Buscema, Inker Sam Grainger

Ok it all starts with Black Knight running down the stairs in his castle in England. He calls upon his ancestor Sir Percy of Scandia. Sir Percy gives the Knight the low down of what happened the previous issue (It is up above) and lets the Knight the weight of his actions. The Knight now understands. Meanwhile in the future Kang curses the day he met the Grandmaster and wishes Ravonna was better. He snarls and stalks away to encounter the Grandmaster. They use a video screen to look back onto 1941 Paris. Black Panther, Yellow Jacket and Vision have arrived. They quickly beat down some "goose steppers" when a ball of fire comes out at them. In a portal stand Captain America, the Original Human Torch and Namor. The Invaders call them Nazis and battle ensues. While all this is going on Sir Percy uses his power to send the Knight to the future with the connection to the Ebony Blade. (wow ghosts are powerful) When the knight gets there he finds the Avengers in a stasis field with the Ebony Blade just left lying on the floor so it can easily be found and used. A couple guards jump out and Black Knight seeing the plot device grabs the sword and reflects the guard's beams back at him. The panel showed two but Black Knight is so awesome one just ceases to exist. Dane hears a noise coming from the wall and cuts it open to find the Wasp alone in a room. In the sixties females are helpless and she could no do anything to help herself until a big strong man rescued her. In the past the two groups battle hard until the Vision passes through the trio of Invaders just solid enough to stun them. The Avengers win and are brought back in time. Kang is triumphant and as he is about to chose the power of Life to save Ravonna the Avengers bust in and Kang is angered. He begs the Grandmaster for the power of Life and Death but when told he could have one decides that he will find a science to save his woman and chooses Death. He then uses the power to try and kill the Avengers. He lets them hang onto the edge of life so he can savor it when the Black Knight rushes him (plot device man) who vanquishes Kang. Since he was not an Avenger Kang's power didn't work on. Grandmaster takes away the power and sends everyone to their own time with the team making the Black Knight a member. And because he is a member in 45 issues they will fight the Defenders because of it. But that is another story.


And now let's see the cover.