West Coast Avengers

Were either of you familiar with Drew Daniels, the Texas Twister, prior to this recording or prior to my invitation to research this guy?

No, I remember when the West Coast Avengers issues came out, I was buying them at the time.

And I got heavily back into comics when I was in college.

And I remember reading those issues as they came out.

it's like okay so he sends a signal out and and after an indetermined amount of time the controller is getting angry because the Avengers haven't shown up and he thinks that he did that Rick did something wrong or different but then suddenly other heroes start showing up that we get the um we get a firebird and we get, so we've

got, we've got William tall trees, the red, the red wolf, the red wolf native or an indigenous character from Arizona.

We have Benita Juarez, who is a Catholic social worker, the firebird of the, West Coast Avengers.

Love this character.

It's not just the Avengers.

It's also the West Coast Avengers.

You're totally right.

And X-Men that have joined the Avengers at certain times.

Oh, see, it doesn't have the exact.

Okay.

Well, it does say the West Coast Avengers, New Avengers, just like I said, and then with all the team ups and people joining in.

It's over 200.

Yep.

Uh, I mean, there was, uh, West Coast Avengers, Thor, I was, uh, in the Gruenwald

Spider-Man

... comic books

Cap gets permission to break the news to Nighthawk himself.

Nighthawk is disappointed and inquires about the Defenders, only to be told that they have disbanded.

Cap grants Nighthawk use of the Avengers' communications equipment so he can try and contact other teams, the West Coast Avengers, Alpha Flight, and the X-Men.

While Cap checks in with his hotline, hearing reports of a man on a flying carpet in Queens, Cap goes to investigate, and remi- minded of one of his own enemies, Nighthawk tags along.

spooky.

I there's a moment in this that I think is really is very important to remember that Kelly is the creator of Jeff the Landshark yes where it's clear West Coast Avengers has been cancelled and Gwenpool shows up in the book to this

is so sad it is

kind of sad

Yeah.

And then at the new place, the cat became like a famous Instagram cat.

Well, and what the thing that what's what's funny about this is one of our things about West Coast Avengers was not that Kelly was bad at writing Gwenpool, but that we never got to.

We didn't.

yeah bleeding poverty

However before they can leave Avengers mansion they find themselves teleported to a remote location in the Rocky Mountains and right i've gathered all you heroes but don't try to stop me yeah i'm serious this time The Fantastic Four are not alone as they also find the Avengers, West Coast Avengers, Alpha Flight, Spider-Man, The Hulk, The Thing, Silver Surfer, Vision, Scarlet Witch, Heroes for Hire, Cloak and Dagger have also been brought to this location.

Everybody.

Everyone who bothered to show up for Secret

right no i love soft steve engelhardt

yeah me

too oh just that fantastic four that uh uh west coast avengers stuff the vision and scarlet witch

captain america

When Guru Hero got a hold of him, he became much more of the round boy that he is now.

But the first initial design when he was in West Coast Avengers, he was more like a shark dog.

He's more like the little...

Marvel Legends version.