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Awkward Family Portraits: The Avengers Edition (Avengers #368)

Nick, no. (Avengers #368)

The Avengers were not always Marvel’s A-List team. (Avengers #368)

TFW your kid gets replaced by a shapeshifter and then explodes. (Avengers #368)

“Mr. Agent” BWAHAHAHAHA (Avengers #368)

Trolling Henry Peter Gyrich is the real superheroism. (Avengers #368)

“Just like Dracula would.” (Avengers #368)

Oh, hey, it’s the yelling disembodied head of Charles Xavier! (Avengers #368)

Everyone else is rushing into battle; and there’s Cap, just, like, “FORGET THIS I’M GONNA FIGHT THE SKY” (X-Men #26)

Good work, Mr. Agent. (X-Men #26)

Avengers West Coast #101

Hawkeye should enter every room this way. (Avengers West Coast #101)

Genosha: Still the Goddamn Worst. (Avengers West Coast #101)

Did they, though? I kind of suspect he named himself that. (Uncanny X-Men #307)

The cover IS the trading card. (Avengers #69)

1993 seems like a little late to have two yelling Xavier heads in one story, but you do you.(Avengers #69)

Well, he sure pontificates like Magneto. (Avengers #69)

And yet, he won’t be out for another decade and change. (Avengers #69)

NEXT EPISODE: Live at Emerald City Comic Con, with Vita Ayala, Seanan McGuire, and Leah Williams!

• Max Carleton is an unmitigated delight! Here’s where you can check out more of his work:
  • Read Max’s comics about comics at Waiting for the Trade!
  • Follow him on Twitter!
  • Hear Max and Tina dive into the weird and somewhat horrifying world of Once Upon a Time in Welcome to Storybrooke…
  • …and find their secret podcast by supporting them on Patreon!
  • Then come back and listen to Max and Jay talk about the wonders and horrors of the X-Men anime in our Episode 115 – So Many Teeth.
• Life on the Infinite Farm, by Richard Evan Schwartz
• Erdös Numbers
• Aud Koch’s impressive take on Viv Vision’s family tree
• Seriously, Marvel, give Aud all your mystical characters immediately.