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All-New, Rebranded Avengers #34 – ‘Learn Everything the Hard Way’

Posted on August 19, 2021September 17, 2023 by phil.wrede
Shuri, the Princess of Wakanda, Beast, King T’Chaka of Wakanda, and War Machine are all on a video conference call. The title of the comic strip, “All-New, Rebranded Avengers Presents… ‘Learn Everything the Hard Way’,” is visible at the bottom of the image.
Shatterstar, T’Chaka, and Domino all discuss contingency plans for the military’s threatened assault on Avengers Tower.
Beast chimes in on the discussion; Domino asks him why, as a Stark employee, he’s present on this call. Beast admits that he has been let go by Stark, and freshly hired onto the Avengers staff by King T’Chaka.
Beast grumbles to himself as he tries to look up relevant information in the HR platform.
Shuri weighs in, dismissively, about the ideas that have been proposed, so far.
Shatterstar offers to escape via another time portal.
Beast and T’Chaka sign off of the call, citing their need to maintain deniability.
Just as Domino begins to ask Shatterstar why, earlier, he claimed that his time machine no longer functioned, a loud alert siren sounds in Avengers Tower.
The airspace alarm confirms that military aircraft are inbound for the tower.
On the top half of the image, Shatterstar draws his swords, ready for combat. On the bottom half of the image, we see the credits for the comic strip, citing the Unsplash users whose photographs were the background art, the ownership of Marvel by Disney, the creation of Marvel characters by actual human beings, and the figure photography/script/lettering by me, Phil Wrede.
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I’ve come to love these video meeting comic strips, because I don’t have to conjure reasons for the characters to all be in the same place, to have a conversation. And, because it lets me get really picky about the angles at which the characters are posed in the frame. And, because it gives me excuses to work in funny sound effects. And, because it’s a lot of fun to try and figure out what each character would choose for their virtual background.

This strip let me indulge pretty much every single one of those impulses, and I got to set up the imminent raid on Avengers Tower by the military forces that have been ordered to take Shatterstar into custody, because of his egregious overreaction following the big A.I.M. base raid! Everybody won, this week!

Well, not the characters. You know what I mean.

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