All-New, All-Remote Avengers #22 – ‘Muscle for Rank’

Part 5 of the big A.I.M. base assault – it begins, here! Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 here, if you like!

It took a good long while for the ideal adversaries, Spider-Man and J. Jonah Jameson, to meet in the Phil Wrede Marvel Action Figure Comic Universe, but like every time I find an excuse to write JJJ into my comic, it was an experience of pure joy for me, from start to finish. Spider-Man’s attempts at acting in good faith, and Jonah’s innate inability to accept that he might not be feigning that good faith, makes for a perfect character pairing; there’s a reason creators have been mining gold from that relationship for decades!

I don’t want to count Spider-Woman out here, either. Julia Carpenter’s been a favorite Marvel character of mine from the minute I found out about her association with Denver, Colorado. There aren’t many heroes who call my hometown their home, too, after all! I’ve modified her power set in my comics to be slightly more in line with Spider-Man’s, mostly so I can show her swinging on a web from time to time (who wouldn’t want to swing on a web?). She gets to kick some butt here, too, which might not be the most sophisticated adventure she’s ever gone on, but sometimes, a hero just needs to kick a few villains around!