Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Pencils and cover by DANIEL ACUÑA Venom Variant Cover
Hydra makes a play for HAMMER as Norman Osborn tries to take back the Avengers 32 PGS.
Date Available: 02/29/2012
BONUS REVIEW by John Doc Schaefer
Ok, it's official! Norman Osborn has officially entered the ranks of such characters as Wolverine in the 80's and most recently Deadpool in the category of most annoyingly overexposed character in the Marvel Universe. I mean, really, sure he was cool as the Green Goblin back in the 60's. And it was fun to watch him go nuts and pass along the nutcase gene to his son Harry in the 70's but that's all gone now. This guy has gone from a nutcase to an all around pain in everyone's side and I call for his immediate whacking!
Shoot him in the head, drop him in hot lava and watch his body burn. Thor, dude, use that Uru that you use so well to break every bone in his body. Red Hulk punch him till he is nothing but a pink sticky goo between your big red fingernails. And for god sakes cut his head off, burn his body to dust and then incinerate the ashes in the sun. This is definitely Wonder Woman/Maxwell Lord neck snapping time.
Old Normy has been locked up and escaped, he took over SHIELD and left that organization a steaming pile of dung. He got locked up again and everybody got cool goblin tattoo (As a matter of principle, I refused one of these little beauties when they being given out as comic store swag back aways and I do love me some free comic swag!) The point here is on the point of becoming some twisted evil messiah and the peoples of the Marvel Universe are letting it happen. Not just once but multiple times. Ok, so Cap and Iron Man can't punch his ticket but how about some average Joe (at least assuming they can now that ole Normy seems to have doing some DNA rearranging) do it. Oh, where are the Yancy Street Gang or Irving Forbush for that matter when you need them!
The good news is that it between page after page of Norman just being a b*st%rd, the Vision is back, our president gets a few good lines and so does Cap.
Norman, you 10 minutes of fame is over and as for you stupid Marvel fictional characters that are going along with these fictional events, I hope a fictional helicarrier falls out of the sky on your fictional heads and finally knocks some sense into ya. Fire bad! Norman Osborn real bad! Get it.
