New Avengers #24 Review (w/spoilers)

[Cmbmool]

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The end. It really doesn't matter whether Wakanda begged or not, as much as you would have liked them to.

In a karmic kind of storytelling sense you can argue Hickman sort of set it up that way. Wakandan kinds didn't care about helping anyone else in the past, so when Wakanda needed help no one came to their aid.

Of course, in modern day times Wakanda has helped others and we know others have helped Wakanda. Super hero community at least. I think we all know that if they were able to other heroes would have tried to help. The Illuminati at least, if T'Challa is a member of that group. I assume they either couldn't help or failed to help.

A far as non-super hero world, against Thanos help likely wouldn't have mattered.

Xpac counter your argument. Plus, I would believe that S.H.I.E.L.D and the Avengers would TRY to help, but be stretch too thin to do so.

[Vic Vega]

I think there has to be more to it than that. I don't think Steve would ever be SO angry at Tony that he'd completely ignore the presence of Thanos on earth.

Ignore, no?

If Steve didn't know about Thanos' status at the end of Infinty, he might very well assume that they were all in on it together.

Who was in charge of locking Thanos up, after all? It was Tony who told Steve/Cap that Thanos was secure.

Tony who keeps @#$&ing Steve over.

I could see a "thinking the worst" Steve assuming that the Illuminati sprung Thanos themselves. For all Steve knows this is an internal power struggle between the Illuminati.

[MindofShadow]

Can someone clear up the Wakanda destroyed thing for people who have the issue handy? I only had time to read it real quick before heading back to work


- it sounds like someone betrayed Wakanda/Illuminati and feeding them false information?

- T'challa was getting the bombs to blackmail leverage somebody... who? The rest of the Earth? The Avengers?

[Mahes]

Given that Doom is choosing to become a player in the game, Latveria would likely be the next potential option.

I think Latveria is being destroyed but not in Hickman's books but due to AXIS. Today's Loki issue showed the seeds for that.

Can someone clear up the Wakanda destroyed thing for people who have the issue handy? I only had time to read it real quick before heading back to work


- it sounds like someone betrayed Wakanda/Illuminati and feeding them false information?

- T'challa was getting the bombs to blackmail leverage somebody... who? The rest of the Earth? The Avengers?

1. Yes, someone provided them false information that all of the Cabal would be on the other Earth during the Incursion.

2. It was not revealed who they would be blackmailing.

[jackolover]

That's what I'm saying. How are Tony, BP, Hulk, CB, Amadeus Cho, Beast, and Black Bolt even on the radar when Thanos, Terrax, two of the Cull Obsidian, Maximus, and Namor are wiping out nations and off galavanting and doing what they do.

Also, I wonder if their are other "rogue factions" of the Avengers that are helping the Illuminati.

If the Cabal are only encountering Incursions, nobody knows they exist. This could all be hidden inside the Wakanda hidden city. It would take Namor telling the world about this, if the Illuminati haven't hunted down Namor to find out who stopped the last Incursion in NA #23, to find out. So to my mind, the Avengers hunt the Illuminati, the Cabal deal with Incursions in secret.

[XPac]

Ignore, no?

If Steve didn't know about Thanos' status at the end of Infinty, he might very well assume that they were all in on it together.

Who was in charge of locking Thanos up, after all? It was Tony who told Cap Thanos was secure.

Tony who keep @#$&ing Steve over.

I could see a "thinking the worst" Steve assuming that the Illuminati sprung Thanos themselves. For all Steve knows this is an internal power struggle between the Illuminati.

Considering that Namor, a member of the Illuminati, is working with the Cabal the assumption isn't really that far off I suppose.

Either way I'm going to assume that the Avengers and SHIELD are attempting to deal with both the Cabal and Illuminati until the story presents reasons why they wouldn't. I just don't buy the idea that no one gives a dam that Thanos is walking around. To me that's too big of a stretch. They're either trying to deal with him, or there's a darn good reason they're not.

[MB99]

If the Cabal are only encountering Incursions, nobody knows they exist. This could all be hidden inside the Wakanda hidden city. It would take Namor telling the world about this, if the Illuminati haven't hunted down Namor to find out who stopped the last Incursion in NA #23, to find out. So to my mind, the Avengers hunt the Illuminati, the Cabal deal with Incursions in secret.

The world knows the Cabal exist, they said in this issue that the world watched them destroy Wakanda

[KOSLOX]

Xpac counter your argument. Plus, I would believe that S.H.I.E.L.D and the Avengers would TRY to help, but be stretch too thin to do so.

But, per this issue they didn't.

[Double 0]

Considering that Namor, a member of the Illuminati, is working with the Cabal the assumption isn't really that far off I suppose.

Either way I'm going to assume that the Avengers and SHIELD are attempting to deal with both the Cabal and Illuminati until the story presents reasons why they wouldn't. I just don't buy the idea that no one gives a dam that Thanos is walking around. To me that's too big of a stretch. They're either trying to deal with him, or there's a darn good reason they're not.

I don't see why this is any different. An African nation burns, the world watches, happy it isn't them.

Sounds typical to me.

[Trident]

Ignore, no?

If Steve didn't know about Thanos' status at the end of Infinty, he might very well assume that they were all in on it together.

Who was in charge of locking Thanos up, after all? It was Tony who told Steve/Cap that Thanos was secure.


I could see a "thinking the worst" Steve assuming that the Illuminati sprung Thanos themselves. For all Steve knows this is an internal power struggle between the Illuminati.

This is more or less my line of thinking. I agree with Mahes that most of the illuminati are known but pretty much all the players let loose on Wakanda are known to be connected or in the "care" of the Illuminati. It could Easily be assumed that they are all connected.

I guess it is something hopefully to be revealed at some point.

I don't see why this is any different. An African nation burns, the world watches, happy it isn't them.

Sounds typical to me.

.....the U.S. Gives around 70 billion dollars of foreign aid each year. A total of 25 or the 54 countries in Africa are recipients of this help.

Your statement is slightly over dramatic. Considering this is a nation in a comic book and one that has openly stated they are opposed to outsiders and has turned down alliances, foreign, help, and simple communication/information sharing in the past.

[KOSLOX]

If the Cabal are only encountering Incursions, nobody knows they exist. This could all be hidden inside the Wakanda hidden city. It would take Namor telling the world about this, if the Illuminati haven't hunted down Namor to find out who stopped the last Incursion in NA #23, to find out. So to my mind, the Avengers hunt the Illuminati, the Cabal deal with Incursions in secret.

In this very issue they said the world watched and did nothing as the Cabal destroyed Wakanda. They aren't a secret.

[KOSLOX]

2. It was not revealed who they would be blackmailing.

He said he would use it to make the rest of the world feel shamed at letting Wakanda die. It was actually very petty, but that said they did let his nation die, so I guess you can forgive pettiness.

[KOSLOX]

I don't see why this is any different. An African nation burns, the world watches, happy it isn't them.

Sounds typical to me.

The world outside your window.

[jackolover]

Yes. Both books are eight months in the future from everything else, which, according to editorial will catch up in April. In theory Hickman's run will end with an event that everything participates in. Possibly the UU, too.

If this issue is set 8 months in the future, a lot has gone on in between, and it's almost impossible to extrapolate accurately enough to fill in all the blanks at this stage. We also have to remember, Sue leads a SHIELD Avengers team now, and her husband has been missing for a while now. Something happened in AXIS that changes a few things by the time we get to Avengers #35 and NA #24.

[Vic Vega]

Consider: everybody who has the tech to tell when an incursion is hapening is either Dr. Doom or in the Illuminati already.

The illuminati either kicked Steve/Cap out before installing his signal device or they took it away from him after the mindwipe. He's got no way of tracking this stuff on his own.

Maybe that is why Steve wants to capture the Illuminati so badly. Not just because he's pissed(but he is REALLY pissed).

He needs actionable intel.