{"id":11694,"date":"2014-03-20T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=11694"},"modified":"2014-03-19T16:44:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T16:44:06","slug":"amazing-spider-man-volume-10-new-avengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2014\/03\/20\/amazing-spider-man-volume-10-new-avengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Spider-Man volume 10: New Avengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Am-Spi-vol-10-new-Avs-150x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"230\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Am-Spi-vol-10-new-Avs-150x230.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Am-Spi-vol-10-new-Avs-250x384.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Am-Spi-vol-10-new-Avs-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Am-Spi-vol-10-new-Avs.jpg 309w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><br \/>\nBy <b>J. Michael Straczynski<\/b>, <b>Mike Deodato Jr.<\/b>, <b>Joe Pimentel<\/b> &amp; <b>Tom Palmer<\/b> (Marvel)<br \/>\nISBN: 978-0-7852-1764-4<\/p>\n<p>When the original hard-luck hero became a full-time Avenger (as seen in <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2014\/01\/17\/the-new-avengers-volume-1-breakout\/\">New Avengers: Breakout<\/a><\/b>), <i>Peter Parker<\/i> foolishly hoped that his life might finally be on the upswing, but of course every step forward results in two leaps back for the Wondrous Wallcrawler\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Crafted by scripter J. Michael Straczynski and illustrated by Mike Deodato Jr. with Joe Pimentel &amp; Tom Palmer, <b>New Avengers<\/b> collects <b>Amazing Spider-Man<\/b> #519-524 (June-November 2005) and examines a period of tense and fractious adaptation in the ultimate loner&#8217;s life beginning with <i>&#8216;Moving Up&#8217;<\/i> and the tragic aftermath of a fire which has destroyed <i>May Parker<\/i>&#8216;s house and rendered both the old lady and her family\/tenants Peter and <i>Mary Jane<\/i> homeless.<\/p>\n<p>As the heartbroken women rummage through ashes and rubble for any salvageable mementos, billionaire <i>Tony Stark<\/i> arrives and invites them all to live in his grandiose and futuristic skyscraper in the centre of Manhattan. It&#8217;s the very least he can do for his new Avenging comrade, but the grateful trio have no idea of the trouble they&#8217;ve stepped into by accepting\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, all over America the glorified parvenu gangsters who currently control the criminal organisation <i>Hydra<\/i> are being rounded up by passionate and disgruntled usurpers determined to return the once-deadly secret society to its fanatical terrorist roots\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>The rejuvenated evil underground empire begins its terrifying resurgence in <i>&#8216;Acts of Aggression&#8217;<\/i> by unleashing their greatest weapon: a squad of super-powered killers insidiously patterned on <i>Iron Man<\/i>, <i>Captain America<\/i>, <i>Hawkeye<\/i> and <i>Thor<\/i>. Their first cataclysmic rampage is only barely contained by the assembled <i>New Avengers<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>However, Peter doesn&#8217;t need his Spider Sense to realise that there&#8217;s some deeper game in play, and by using his press contacts at the <i>Daily Bugle <\/i>discovers the chaos was used to cover the arrival of smuggled missile components\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>His overconfident buddies are more interested in catching the hit-and-run \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hydra-vengers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and Mary Jane is all wrapped up in her imminent stage debut, so nobody is ready for the next surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst Peter follows a slim lead and accidentally exposes the criminal cabal&#8217;s new <i>Supreme Hydra<\/i>, his wife heads back to Stark Tower and experiences <i>&#8216;Unintended Consequences&#8217;<\/i> when she is door-stepped by a sleazy tabloid journalist who says he knows her secret\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Terrified of Spider-Man&#8217;s identity being exposed she thinks fast and brazenly bluffs, but next morning awakens to headlines screaming that she&#8217;s having an affair with party-mad playboy Tony Stark\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Hydra meanwhile have moved up their schedule, planning to launch a rocket filled with assorted plagues, bacilli and toxins into America&#8217;s largest aquifer\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Having finally convinced <i>Iron Man<\/i> and the others, &#8216;<i>Moving Targets&#8217;<\/i> finds Spider-Man infiltrating the subterranean Hydra Bunker and confronting an army of gun-toting maniacs as well as the facsimile Avengers\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Desperately trying to stay alive until Captain America, <i>Spider-Woman<\/i>, <i>Luke Cage<\/i>, <i>Wolverine<\/i> and Stark can find him, the Astounding Arachnid is forced to take <i>&#8216;Extreme Measures&#8217;<\/i> when the toxic rocket blasts off\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Everything neatly wraps up in <i>&#8216;All Fall Down&#8217;<\/i> as Spidey saves the day but has to recuperate from the lethal &#8211; for anyone else &#8211; germ exposure. With Peter incapacitated, Stark deals with Mary Jane&#8217;s media situation in a manner both slick and terrifying&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not all good though: there&#8217;s a recurring and possibly fatal medical complication the weary Wallcrawler refuses to share with either family or his heroic friends\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>To Be Continued\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>With covers by Deodato Jr., Kaare Andrews, Terry &amp; Rachel Dodson and Tony Harris &#8211; augmented by behind-the-scenes designs stage pages &#8211; this canny chronicle delivers a rocket-paced, straightforward thriller stuffed with sentiment and outrageous hilarity (amongst other mad moments Aunt May has a disturbing fling with Avengers butler <i>Edwin Jarvis<\/i> &#8211; at least as far as her nephew is concerned: it&#8217;s loaded with sly laughs for the rest of us\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6).<\/p>\n<p>Despite the foreshadowed conclusion this is a cracking Fights &#8216;n&#8217; Tights romp every action fan will adore. This is super-heroics at its most satisfying.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a9 2005 Marvel Characters, Inc. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By J. Michael Straczynski, Mike Deodato Jr., Joe Pimentel &amp; Tom Palmer (Marvel) ISBN: 978-0-7852-1764-4 When the original hard-luck hero became a full-time Avenger (as seen in New Avengers: Breakout), Peter Parker foolishly hoped that his life might finally be on the upswing, but of course every step forward results in two leaps back for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2014\/03\/20\/amazing-spider-man-volume-10-new-avengers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amazing Spider-Man volume 10: New Avengers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[94,79,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avengers","category-marvel-superheroes","category-spider-man"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-32C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}