BLACK CAT JOINS THE AVENGERS?! For a cosmic caper! The Avengers attend an intergalactic auction in an attempt to get ahead of some of these Tribulation Events... ...but they are in for a shock when Black Cat shows up on SOMEONE'S arm! The most shocking date of 2025 - and the year has only begun!
Rated T+
Avengers #22 has the team embark on a mission unlike anything they've done before: a sleek and exhilarating heist of epic proportions, with a few twists and turns to leave you wanting more. Read Full Review
While its guest star may have a fleeting presence, Avengers #22 is a fun heist that manages to push the ongoing story forward. It's also a reminder that this is one of Marvel's most underrated titles. Read Full Review
Karami delivers some compelling visuals throughout the issue. The visual style is interesting, but didnt really connect with me as far as the look of the characters. Read Full Review
And then theres the fact that Black Cat is fashionably late for her guest appearance in the issue. Shes right there on the cover--the ONLY character on the cover who appears in person and she doesnt even show-up until right around the end of the issue. So its a bit of a disappointment that shes not playing a bigger part in the outset of the multi-issue story. Its too bad that she couldnt have been brought-in a little bit earlier. Read Full Review
Plot
Wanda Maximoff set out to investigate the whereabouts of Kang's "missing moment" by asking demons, ghosts, and any being from other worlds and they gave her an important clue.
Kang's "missing moment" is going to be auctioned off at Grandmaster's Biggest Casino of the Eight Cosmos, so Captain Marvel organizes a robbery, where all the Avengers play a key role. Storm and Wanda act out a fictional fight to get attention, while Tony, Carol, and Sam dressed as the Wizard of Oz arrive at the vault, to discover that it has already been stolen.
Vision discovers that the person responsible for the robbery is Black Cat who is working with Kang, as well as Myrddin and Grandmaster have an alliance.
Art
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The one thing going for this issue is that the characters seem like they're having fun, but most of it just silly. What the hell is the Black Cat doing is space? It just doesn't make any sense. And what was with Tony and Sam being the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion respectively? And with an umbrella in space? WTF. The art was good and like I said, the characters where having fun, so I did as well, but in the end, it's just silly.
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I liked Farid Karami‘s art much better than that of regular artist Valerio Schiti, but that’s about the only positive thing I can say about this issue. This title is just not fun. There’s no synergy, no magic, even when heavyweights like Storm and the Scarlet Witch are battling it out. This issue also suffers from the same problem I see in many Marvel titles lately: there’s no arc of suspense, the issue just ends at some point.
I started reading Avengers because of Storm, but honestly it’s such a bore - I might as well drop it.
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