13

Apr

2012

Friday Five – Avengers Assemble!

Posted By on Friday April 13, 2012 at 4:08 pm
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The Avengers

Welcome to the Friday Five! Each week I help you get to know me a little better with the help of a Top 5 list! This weeks topic: AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!

In the spirit of Avengers vs. X-men, for this week and next week, I’m gonna draft my own Avengers and X-Men teams respectively.

Most of my exposure to the ‘A’ team was through their West Coast branch, because for some reason I bought a copy of Avengers West Coast #1 simply because I could when I was a kid. I’m gonna try to avoid the big names and go with a more offbeat list. While I could just use the Fantastic Four and Spider Man (really, look it up), here’s my list.
 

  1. Wonder Man – I always just thought it was funny that Marvel made a “Wonder Man” to compete with “Wonder Woman”, but I do have almost all of his self-titled series.

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  2. Spider Woman (Julia Carpenter) – Any version would be good, but I prefer the black costume Carpenter wore (which was the inspiration for Peter Parker’s black suit in Secret Wars #8). I have complete sets of both her mini series

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  3. She Hulk – I wasn’t much into the Bruce Banner version (who was only an Avenger for 1 issue, yet he’s still in the movie), but give all that strength and power to his hot female cousin? I’m in. I have almost the complete run of Sensational She Hulk

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  4. Scarlet Witch – The whole reason behind several of Marvel’s recent big events. Who would have thought three little words could do such damage? I also have her full mini series, and her limited series with the Vision.

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  5. Squirrel Girl – It just amuses me to no end that there is a superhero whose only power is talking to squirrels. And she’s defeated several heavyweights in the Marvel Universe, including Dr. Doom, Thanos, M.O.D.O.K., Mandarin, Fin Fang Foom, Wolverine, and Deadpool.

 

is the proud owner of a life size replica Captain Kirk Chair. He is a hoarder of Comic Books, Transformers, and Star Trek action figures. He attended Space Camp as an adult. He has taken vacations to the closing of the Star Trek Experience and the final night Shuttle launch. He has been known to yell at his television when the kids can't put together the damn statue in the Shrine of the Silver Monkey. When not writing for InsufficientScotty, he is a Software Engineer for a major healthcare communications company.

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