#Great Lakes Avengers

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My wife who i love very much

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Today’s dog girl of the day is Goodness Silva from Marvel!

(i didn’t forget to post today yayyy)

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As a Great Lakes Avengers fan, I'm happy to see the current Squirrel Girl renaissance

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Great Lakes Avengers #3

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The Great Lakes Avengers!

Love these dorks.

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Essential Avengers: West Coast Avengers #64: SHOW AND TELL

November, 1990

Cap, no! That's your World War II buddy, Jim Hammond! Don't hurt him, not while he's serving cake!

This is a fill-in issue. For whatever reason, Terry Kavanagh came in to write this issue, instead of the usual team of Thomases.

And it's not really a West Coast Avengers story. It's a Captain America story. Despite the cover saying he's guest starring, it's more like a couple West Coast Avengers characters are guest starring in his life.

Last times in West Coast Avengers: it is a superhero team that exists and the robot Human Torch, Jim Hammond, is a member.

But enough about him, this is a Captain America story, which is why we start with

Rick Jones getting kidnapped.

Dammit, Rick!

But specifically, this is a transmission that Captain America received, which he manages to trace to the West Coast Avengers Compound!

DUN DUN DUN!

The robot Human Torch, Jim Hammond, answers the big video screen when Cap calls to investigate.

Also, Cap commits a micro-aggression against his good robot pal bud, Jim Hammond.

"Hey, Cap, you're made of meat, why don't you try to interface with a donkey?"

You've been spoiled by Vision, who will plug his brain into any computer, Cap.

But Jim investigates and finds that the West Coast Avengers' computers were hacked and used to reroute a message from an abandoned carnival in the Midwest.

As soon as Cap gets the address, he's gone. He doesn't even bother hanging up the call.

Dammit, Cap, Tony is going to get stuck with that long-distance bill!

But it seems that some little dweeb is the one who sent the message.

I can tell it's some little dweeb because his mom comes in and yells at him that it's bedtime.

The dweeb, Stevie Wojciehowicz, sneaks out after lights out, thinking how great it is that he found a lucky, magical red rock.

Captain America arrives at some abandoned amusement park, while back at the West Coast Avengers Compound, robot Human Torch discovers that the amusement park was not the source of the signal but another relay station!

IT'S A TRAP!

Jim tells Wonder Man to cover monitor duty for him and then flies off to warn Cap, since he can't reach him on communications.

This situation is potentially very dangerous because Jim Torch also detected an energy residue similar to the crimson gem of Cyttorak. Y'know, the thing that made the Juggernaut jugger his nauts? A pretty big deal of a mystic artifact?

So, apparently some backstory. At some point, Juggernaut decided to turn his life partner Black Tom Cassidy into another Juggernaut with the gem so they could jugger together. Except, he realized that this split his own power in half so he threw the gem into space to get his full strength back.

Meanwhile, at the amusement part, copyright infringement.

Earlier there was a funhouse entrance shaped like the Joker's head.

Anyway, the amusement park has been converted into a death trap. Mannequins dressed as popular characters try to kill Cap. The normal lights and sounds have been cranked to painful. And the walls are trying to crush Cap.

Cap escapes the room just before the walls close in but winds up on a white river rapid tunnel of love. He survives going over a waterfall by riding his shield down.

Captain America: "How does anyone get by without an indestructible shield?"

And then the big, lumpy guy from the kidnapping video punches him in the head and steals said shield.

Rude.

Meanwhile, while flying to help Cap, Jim Hammond Human Torch has been struck by lightning, attacked by mirror duplicates of himself, uno reverse carded by the mirrors, and finally attacked by illusions of monsters and his Invaders friends who mess with his circuits thanks to Stevie Wojciehowicz and the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak. This just isn't his day!

But in the madness, he spots Rick Jones and chases after him. Only for both him and Cap (chasing and retrieving his shield from that big guy) to end up in the wax museum.

And suddenly the wax figures come to life and start attacking Cap and Human Torch with wax copies of the real heroes' powers.

Also, Cap and Human Torch assume each other are also wax figures because what else would they think at this point?

They both go to save Rick Jones, menaced by the big lumpy guy, so wind up fighting each other.

Just another classic Marvel Misunderstanding Fight tm.

Anyway, while the two of them are realizing that they're each other, the big, lumpy yellow guy catches Rick and pokes his eyes out.

Gruesome.

And then the Great Lakes Avengers show up, see Cap and Torch standing over a dead Rick Jones and Avengers Assemble on the two heroes.

So, the Great Lakes Avengers getting involved was foreshadowed. By having shadowy figures receive a call, allegedly from Captain America, calling them into action.

Dammit, Stevie!

Seriously, though, it's good to see that someone remembers them and still wants to use them for something. Their appearance in the Terminus Factor wasn't really much to write home about.

Jim Hammond Human Torch grabs Cap and rockets him away from the Great Lakes Avengers but Dinah Soar knocks the two to the ground. Flatman grabs Captain America and Dinah Soar keeps on the Torch.

Mr Immortal tries to flank Cap but the Torch sees it and fires a little fire blast and kinda sorta fries him into a corpse.

Human Torch: "No... It can't be... I didn't mean to kill him! I guess I just assumed... with a name like Mr Immortal... that he couldn't be..."

Cap has to explain to him that he's the kind of immortal where he gets better from fatal injuries. He is people that does not die when he is killed.

Mr Immortal pops back up during this explanation, KRAKs Cap in the head, and tries to run off with his shield.

So the Torch goes 'ok so if he can't die, then I can really brutalize him' and flame broils Mr Immortal into ashes.

There's something about people that can't die that just makes superheroes go 'oh sweet, I can get nasty!'

But there's other Great Lakes Avengers members that haven't shown up so Big Bertha suddenly appears, trying to cannonball the Human Torch.

Cap throws his mighty shield to get her off Jim but Doorman jumps out and lets the shield fly into his portal body.

Doorman's body is a portal to the next room. That's his thing. I don't know how that applies here because the shield doesn't go into the next room. It just disappears into Doorman.

Cap helps Torch heft Big Bertha off himself and throw her on Doorman. And then while the Great Lakes Avengers are incapacitated, Cap goes to inspect the dead, deceased Rick Jones and discovers, yup, that's a wax figure.

Rick was never here. It was all a ruse.

Sheepishly, the Great Lakes Avengers explain that they got a call on the Avengers computers from who they thought was Captain America, telling them that an imposter Captain America had stolen his shield and that only the Great Lakes Avengers could be trusted to retrieve it.

And to his dismay, Doorman discovers that the shield isn't where he teleported it to. Which was apparently supposed to be just to the side.

Geez, the Great Lakes Avengers finally get some screen time and it's being fooled into helping steal Cap's mighty shield.

Except Cap was one step ahead.

He noticed that the robots and wax figures at this amusement park trap kept trying to steal his shield. So he pulled an ol' switcheroo in the wax museum.

Captain America: "The Avengers will find whoever is responsible for this -- and we might want to look for the real Rick Jones while we're at it -- but, in the meantime, the perpetrator is in for a surprise when he tries to use the shield for whatever his dark purpose."

Which is show and tell.

Just like the title of the issue warned us about!

Stevie caused the Avengers all this grief because he wanted to steal Cap's shield for show and tell. And lie and say Cap gave it to him for being such a cool dude.

Unfortunately, for Stevie, he didn't notice the ol' switcheroo until now, when he pulls out the shield and sees its all melty. And alllll of his classmates laugh at him.

I'd feel bad for him if he hadn't been idly musing about killing his whole class even before they laughed at him.

So Stevie swears revenge and probably terrorizes his school with a magical red rock. Probably.

Stevie only appears in this one issue of West Coast Avengers.

That untold tale where he and the Hulk fought the Juggernaut? Never gets told. How the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak goes from Stevie back to the Juggernaut? Unknown. Whether Stevie made good on his vow to make the Avengers pay? I know about as much as you do.

I guess nobody was interested in following up on this plot thread that Terry Kavanagh established, not even Terry Kavanagh.

Next on West Coast Avengers, Grim Reaper again, oy. But first, next on Avengers, more of Rage and the hero of Chernobyl guy.

Follow @essential-avengers. Too tired to give reasons. Just imagine I said some. Like and reblog and maybe comment.

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Good Boy (Goodness Silva) of Great Lakes Avengers picspam

Art by Will Robson

Great Lakes Avengers #1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7 (2016)

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Today's otherkin of the day is Goodness Silva, who is wolfkin 🐺

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My favorite Marvel team is the Great Lakes Avengers. I'm not trying to be different, I just think they're pretty neat and I loved the Slott run. Plus it helps that I'm from the midwest. Anyway, I've been thinking up what a rival team could look like, where each member is an inverse of their respective GLA member, and I wound up with one concept I'm so happy with.

For a brief example of what I mean by inverse: This team's Doorman would be Wheel Woman, because of that doors vs wheels debate from a few years back. What exactly would Wheel Woman do? Not sure yet, but that's the kind of vibe I'm going for. I also think it could be funny if this team's Big Bertha left to pursue a music career (can you guess the name there?)

But the one I'm really happy with is the inverse of Mr. Immortal.

I'm not sure exactly what this character's name should be, but it should be themed around death (shocking, I know, coming from the Mortimer Kadaver fan page).

The concept for the character is this:

They die every week. By this I mean throughout the course of an on-average 7-day period, their body slowly decays until it gives out. No matter how they die, when the cycle resets they are brought back to life. At least the body is. Each cycle is a different consciousness. The only upside is skills acquired each cycle compound on each other. So if they spent three weeks trying to learn to draw, they would see one week's worth of improvement after the first week, three after the second, six after the third, and so on.

I know this may sound overly edgy (and I'm sure in the wrong writer's hands it would be. Which is also why I think it could work in a GLA book since that's naturally more lighthearted) but I think there's a lot of potential there.

Like why are they a superhero? Because since they know that they weren't given a life they would be able to remember and appreciate, they want to be the reason other people can.

One of my biggest fears is death, and so I think I naturally find stories that touch on themes relating to it interesting. That's part of the reason I fell in love with this character concept the moment I came up with it. And on top of that, the compounding thing feels like it could make for a really cool superpower. In serious moments, it can be powerful. In comedic moments they can be like Shaggy from Scooby Doo, pulling out random talents that we'd just have to accept past lifetimes of them spent on learning.

And I think it makes for an interesting character because the compounding effect requires trust and collaboration. Learning skills is a sacrificial act for a consciousness, especially if they're the one starting it. They won't be able to reap the rewards in their lifetime.

Plus it allows for some wiggle room. Each cycle is essentially a different person. Kind of like the Doctor from Doctor Who, but instead of swapping bodies, it's minds. And, in the world of comics, it can always be nice to have a diegetic reason for why writers might be writing characters very differently. It's not out of character for them, they're just on a new cycle.

TL;DR: Marvel please let me write the GLA. Trust me bro I can do it, plus it's not even like it's a title writers are fighting over

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Squirrel Girl merch is so rare, of course I had to take this one home as soon as I saw it

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This week's project – the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl! (aka Doreen Green)

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G.L.A. Holiday Special #1 (comic books 2006)

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Happy Holidays!

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Great Lakes Avengers #1