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Avengers #127
Issue(s): Avengers #127
Cover Date: Sep 74
Title: "Bride and doom!"
Credits:
Steve Englehart - Writer
Sal Buscema - Penciler
Joe Staton - Inker
Review/plot:
Somebody's gettin' married!
Gorgon invites the Avengers to the wedding of Crystal and Quicksilver. Quicksilver does his best to avoid seeing the Avengers, since he is still not talking to the Scarlet Witch.
The FF are also in Attilan for the wedding.
The Human Torch and Crystal have a reconciliation, but we are shown that Crystal has some doubts about her marriage to Quicksilver.
The Swordsman and Mantis are fighting as well.
During some pre-wedding festivities, Iron Man and Medusa suddenly attack the Alpha Primitives. Relations between the Alphas and the "regular" Inhumans are still strained despite the reforms that Black Bolt has put in place to attempt to make them more equal. Omega, the robot that is powered by the Inhuman's secret guilt over their treatment of the Alpha Primitives, attacks Crystal. The one regret i have about my decision to not have children is that no one will ever praise my genes while being attacked by a giant robot.
Everyone suspects that Maximus is behind the attack but it turns out he has already been knocked out. It turns out that Omega has been taken over by Ultron...
...and he is using Omega's emotional power charger to feed on the negative feelings that everyone has brought to this wedding.
Quality Rating: C+
Historical Significance Rating: 3
Chronological Placement Considerations: Continues directly into Fantastic Four #150.
References:
- Quicksilver swore to never speak to his sister again unless she stopped dating the Vision in Avengers #110.
- Omega previously appeared in Fantastic Four #131-132.
- The meeting of the Avengers, Fantastic Four, and Inhumans is called "the greatest assemblage of super-heroes since the Avengers/Defenders clash".
Crossover: N/A
Continuity Insert? N
My Reprint: N/A
Inbound References (4): showCharacters Appearing: Agatha Harkness, Black Bolt, Crystal, Franklin Richards, Gorgon, Human Torch, Invisible Woman, Iron Man, Jarvis, Karnak, Lockjaw, Mantis, Maximus, Medusa, Mr. Fantastic, Omega, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Swordsman, Thing, Thor, Triton, Ultron, Vision 1974 / Box 8 / EiC: Roy Thomas Previous:
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Comments
Joe Staton had previously worked at Charlton doing full art; Marvel would only let him do inking, probably deciding his style was too cartoony. He quickly went back to Charlton, and after they stopped accepting new art during 1976, he went to DC full-time(usually receiving bad inking that made his art look really sketchy).
Ralph Macchio shows up in the letters column.
Not Maximus?
Okay...time to panic.
I love how all the Avengers are invited, including Mantis, who Pietro and Crystal haven't met, and Swordsman, who Pietro probably still thinks is a villain and traitor, given the last time they saw each other.
As everyone is no doubt aware by now, Mantis is one of my favorite characters. Nevertheless, I had to totally laugh in agreement when one blogger, in his write-up on the wedding of Quicksilver & Crystal, described Mantis as "the Yoko Ono-style girlfriend of the Swordsman" :)
http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/stevereads/2014/08/comics-the-wedding-of-crystal-and-quicksilver/
"not Maximus" may be the most genuinely stunning plot twist cliffhanger in comic book history.
