Mighty Avengers #14 Review

MIGHTY AVENGERS #14
Written by Brian Michael Bendis
Art by Khoi Pham

We see a flashback to an "old" Sentry story set in the past. In fact, it's the same one we've seen two other times before and is the scene of the Sentry stopping the Void from robbing a bank, the goons shooting the Sentry, bullets bouncing off and so on that was most recently seen in the Dr Doom time travel story and is a reprint of a story Paul Jenkins did on the Sentry when he first came into the Marvel Universe.

However, this time around, everyone hates the Sentry (relatively speaking) and wish Thor was there to save them. Also, Sentry starts babbling about how he killed the Void and begins crying.

Suddenly, a Skrull ship comes out of the sky and tries to go 9/11 on the Baxter Building in some cosmic jihad. Sentry stops them, but the ship explodes in space as the Skrulls simply pray to their gods. The explosion was enough to knock out the Sentry for a period of time and he wakes up in the Fantastic Four's HQ, no worse for the wear.

We later flash to a scene where "Jarvis" requested more information from Tony Stark on the Sentry so as he doesn't turn out like the Scarlet Witch. This was scene after the Ultron arc, if I remember correctly. He uses this information to find a weakness for the Sentry and learn more about him. He takes the info to a Skrull meeting, consisting of Hank Pym, what looks like Spider-Woman and several other unrecognizable Skrulls. They discuss, in the most blatant Bendis-speak I've witnessed to date, how to neutralize the Sentry and the Jarvis Skrull, in full Bendis mode, goes on about the Void and describes exactly how to stop him, which mirrors the events in the Savage Land in SI#2. Most are concerned at his strength and unknown power limits and if it will endanger the plan, but opt to go with the "lol, he's crazy, this'll be easy" plan.

Finally, we get to the Savage Land in the present day. Sentry goes nuts, starts crying and flies off into space. It looks like he punched a human sized hole in Saturn's rings, but the art made it kind of difficult to figure out what was going on there.

Meanwhile, the Super Skrull army attacks the Sentry's home and, just as one is about to re-kill the Sentry's wife, she's saved at the last minute by...the Voidtry? It's a Void-black coloured Sentry who speaks in black text balloons and tells her that Bob couldn't handle it, so he's come to save her as she screams, "No", and is crying at the thing calling itself her husband.

Verdict - Sentry's Nuts LOL (Check It, I Guess?)

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