Go West! Avengers West Coast Appreciation

[Michael Watkins]

Bill Foster would have benefited greatly from having been on the team or, at least, the reserve scientist. he was cheated.

[Phoenixx9]

I seem to remember Firebird with the team for a while, then she left. When she returned, she had a new identity as La Espirita and saved Hank from offing himself. She later went back to Firebird.

[Nomads1]

I seem to remember Firebird with the team for a while, then she left. When she returned, she had a new identity as La Espirita and saved Hank from offing himself. She later went back to Firebird.

She wanted to join, but Hawkeye had his eyes set on the Thing, and ignored her. When the Thing disppeared, before going back to the FF, Firebird had already gone back to New Mexico, and was nowhere to be found when the WCA went looking for her. La Espirita was a terrible codename and the nun-like costume (though she makes it very clear that she's not a nun) was awful. The Firebird codename and costume were both awsome. The Marvel Age pages make a point that she was a member of the team. Zemo is observing a training excercise at the compound involving Hawk, Mock, Tigra and Wondy and says: "That leaves just two of these West Coast Avengers unaccounted for..." "And here they are.... Firebird and Iron Man!" he says on the next panel. The artists of the four pages were John Buscema and Tom Palmer and Wondy was already wearing the Christmas tree costume, but I don't see a tail on Tigra. The writer was Stern, which leads me to belive that, at some point, editorial informed him of this membership change, but, for some reason, Englehart decided to go in a different direction. A shame, really. The first nine issues of the WCA book are some of my favorites of the whole run, and I think a great deal of this is due to Firebird's (and the Thing's) presence.

Peace

[Nomads1]

http://www.cbr.com/hawkeye-quit-great-lakes-avengers/

Bad choice or good choice on the Thomases part?

Peace

[Witchfan]

http://www.cbr.com/hawkeye-quit-great-lakes-avengers/

Bad choice or good choice on the Thomases part?

Peace

I am glad that Hawkeye came back to the WCA, but I wish that Thomas had gotten rid of US Agent. When the Agent was left of the team in Avengers West Coast #69, he should have joined the GLA.

[gurkle]

Even though USAgent was added to the West Coast Avengers by editorial order (specifically, Mark Gruenwald's order), I thought he was a good addition to the team just because most of the other characters didn't know or like him, which created some real tension in the team. It was almost as if Henry Gyrich was a superhero. Plus it's rare for a political conservative to be a superhero, and that added some tension too, sort of like when Hawkman was the JLA's resident conservative.

The point where he really outstayed his welcome was after War Machine joined the WCA. Having the ersatz versions of both Captain America and Iron Man just made the team seem like a B-list team, which it wasn't before (if only because the East Coast Avengers had such weak casts during that period). But by then it was clearly already headed for cancellation.

[Digifiend]

It didn't get cancelled, it got rebranded. It became Force Works, the team who appeared in the Iron Man cartoon at around the same time.

[Nomads1]

In the wake of the "relaunch" of WCA, a look back at better days.

https://www.newsarama.com/17918-west...sion-team.html

Peace

[XPac]

In the wake of the "relaunch" of WCA, a look back at better days.

https://www.newsarama.com/17918-west...sion-team.html

Peace

Well, it took them awhile but they finally came up with a reason to have a West Coast team apart from naustalgia.

[SJNeal]

In the wake of the "relaunch" of WCA, a look back at better days.

https://www.newsarama.com/17918-west...sion-team.html

Peace

Humphries comes across as pretty smug in this 5 yr old article.

I wonder if he feels the same way about this "footnote" series now that he's got a trail of canceled, inconsequential books behind him.

[joebleau]

holy s.
I didnt know Marvel could make a Avengers team that was so blah!

[Nomads1]

West Coast Avengers gets the Epic Collection treatment:

https://www.amazon.com/Avengers-West...pic+collection

I already have all this collected (except for Wonder Man #1), so I guess I'll pass, but I'll keep my eyes open for the future collections. Still have some holes in my collected editions, although I still have the whole series in floppies.

Peace

[Mary Jay]

West Coast Avengers gets the Epic Collection treatment:

https://www.amazon.com/Avengers-West...pic+collection

I already have all this collected (except for Wonder Man #1), so I guess I'll pass, but I'll keep my eyes open for the future collections. Still have some holes in my collected editions, although I still have the whole series in floppies.

Peace

Yess!! Thanks for the tip, now I know how to spend my money with Marvel

[Witchfan]

Comic Legends: Did Hank Pym & Wasp Almost Marry in West Coast Avengers?
https://www.cbr.com/hank-pym-wasp-ma...oast-avengers/

COMIC LEGEND:
John Byrne was going to have Hank Pym and Wasp get married during his West Coast Avegenrs run

STATUS:
True

[Mary Jay]

Comic Legends: Did Hank Pym & Wasp Almost Marry in West Coast Avengers?
https://www.cbr.com/hank-pym-wasp-ma...oast-avengers/

COMIC LEGEND:
John Byrne was going to have Hank Pym and Wasp get married during his West Coast Avegenrs run

STATUS:
True

Well, that would have been nice.