Issue(s): Avengers #4, Avengers #5
Cover Date: Feb-Mar 97
Title: "That which gods have joined together..." / "...Let no man tear asunder!"
Credits:
Rob Liefeld, Jeph Loeb, & Jim Valentino - Writer
Chap Yaep, Ian Churchill / Chap Yaep, Ian Churchill, & Rob Liefeld - Penciler
Jon Sibal - Inker
Rob Liefeld - Editor

Review/plot:
Chap Yaep is only credited with a "special thanks" for breakdowns in issue #5, and Rob Liefeld co-pencils the issue. The UHBMCC says that Jim Valentino also gets a "special thanks" for issue 5. I don't see it, but he'd been co-writing the book up until that point and i wouldn't be surprised if elements of his writing were still being used by issue #5.

I don't have much to say about these issues. Hulk goes on a rampage and fights the Avengers (mostly the fake Thor).

Ian Churchill turns in an absolutely atrocious design for Ant-Man, and then Ant-Man is trapped inside the Vision (who was damaged by Kang in the last arc) by Ultron, and he's effectively sidelined for the rest of the series doing an extended rehash of Neal Adams's famous depiction of Ant-Man exploring the Vision from the Kree-Skrull War. Note the "can't shake the feeling I've tried this before" line, one of many such lines in all of these books. It was the sort of thing that kept me dumbly buying these books, waiting for something bigger to happen.

Quality Rating: D

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: The events here lead directly into the Industrial Revolution crossover, but that starts with the epilogue in Fantastic Four #6, which continues from Fantastic Four #4-5, so i'll cover that next.

References: N/A

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A