@@CasuallyComics Some people just wanna dedicate their lives to seeing someone else live their best life! ...yeah this is the worst unrelated in any other way avatar to have right now, isn't it.
All I learned from this issue is Pietro really loves his sister and that Tony is either careless or forgiving for recruiting former supervillains to the Avengers as he even wanted Namor to join.
Honestly Tony's forgiving nature is something that really disappeared from comics but should make a return. Even in his own comic he was hiring on former supervillains like some sort of billionaire playboy philanthropist or something.
Black Knight, Hawkeye, Black Widow...The Avengers really started that "Villains redeemed into Heroes" that the X-Men would later run with, and did it so long ago, many don't even realize it! (Quicksilver's thoughts about not wanting to be constantly reminded of their mutanthood may also be there to explain why they didn't just join the X-Men, instead)
@@itsnotme987 Nah, it's not that. It's just that variety is the spice of life. Mix it up a bit. A work where every male character was basically just the author's husband would grate on you even if you thought the rest of it should be studied for how great it is. It's like Newton's alchemy obsession. It was important to them, but it's not really something anyone should consider useful for practical application.
Favorite Sasha quote: "Brotherhood of EVIL mutants" "Masters of EVIL" Standards are very low when you accepting recently former villains. Avengers are easier to get into than junior college. How many times have the Avengers get infiltrated, seems like it would be easy. Villain: "ok, I am a good guy now." Tony: "Welcome to the Avengers!"
The Avengers would be need new recruits now that the Trinity (Ironman, Cap, and Thor) have left. Hey Zemo, spots open. Lol. I think i prefer Thor with the Guardians anyway, good chemistry.
In another of her videos, he covers when Cap hired Blood Hunter to join as their pilot shortly after he had been battling him. Seems like their enemies could just stop right in the middle of battle, and say they are good guys now and get instantly recruited. I'd love to see like Red Skull, Dr Doom, Thanos, The Leader, and Loki just walk up to the door at the Avengers mansion and say "Hey we're good guys not, and want to join" Then just destroy them from within. Or have so many villains join that they outnumber the other Avengers, call a meeting to instate a new leader, vote in Doom, then fire all the other Avengers.
From being in the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants to fighting the Masters of Evil. Villain teams used to be more on the nose about their motivations in those days.
One of my favorite comic book issues of all time is from X-Factor, written by Peter David, just after the original team had been replaced by Havok, Polaris, Quicksilver, etc. They all do one-on-one therapy sessions with Doc Samson, and Quicksilver says "You know when you're in a line at the ATM and the people ahead of you are so slow and you feel like you're never going to get to the ATM? That's how I feel all the time. I can move at superspeed but everyone else is moving so slow - it's infuriating." I've never forgotten that analogy - it explains a lot about why Quicksilver is usually portrayed as arrogant and miserable in the comics.
An Idea for a What-if style story, What if Black Widow, Hawkeye, Namor, Scarlet Witch, Wonderman, and Quicksilver were the first Thunderbolts, before being folded into the Avengers?
The early formation of Cap's Kooky Quartet! You would never think at this time that these former villain characters would become the Avengers mainstays their known for, and they haven't recruited Widow yet. Cap in the MCU: Thanks or having our backs, you chose the right side Iron Man in the 60's: Oh good, was about to disband the team, or choose Rick, and that would be a worst decision (drinks amartini)
If they're going to ride Cap and Iron Man whining at each other into eternity, eventually this ought to come up. Iron Man ditched and left Cap with the job of basically being a super hero probation officer because he was too busy drinking himself to death after one typical series of events in Cap's shoes.
also Cap in the MCU: oh shit! my actions had consequences!? welp time to go live in the woods with my family and avoid facing those consequences, have fun Avengers!
@@GenerationWest ...yes, I totally meant Tony, whoops Cap is all good, except when he is written as a secret nazi, then everyone needs to feel shame for thinking that was a good idea
I remember Quicksilver saying they joined so they weren’t always reminded by the world that they were mutants. It’s why they joined the Avengers and not the X-men.
The first time I saw Quicksilver, he was in his green costume trying to catch Spider-Man in one of Spidey's series. And as fast as he was he was clearly slower than my then favorite hero, the Flash. But, that made me like him all the more for it. Somehow his lesser superspeed made him "more realistic" and more relatable in my kiddo mind.
Oh wow, I wish that tension between acceptance and assimilation from Quicksilver had been examined because it's a feeling I know a lot of people would resonate with, *especially* at the time.
Marvel needs its own Elseworlds. Imagine a work set in the 60s actually using mutants as a metaphor for various oppressions with more time spent on him/that outlook.
@@kinginthenorth1437 Oh I know that. The problem was always what's on display in this comic: they don't delve into it. They weren't allowed to and if they were any attempt probably would have gone poorly. Just imagine Stan Lee creating realistic oppression dynamics and human psychologies. I'm saying do an Elseworlds-style story that's basically if the best traits of modern comic book writing was applied to the characters and concepts Stan had back then, written as a then-contemporary commentary. A modern-style commentary on oppression but in a historical-setting work written as though it was written by someone using the modern tools in the past, as though those techniques and writing censorship norms existed then. Like, what would a 30 or 40something Holocaust survivor Magneto in the 1960s be written like if he was written today and written realistically sticking with his beliefs and methods in canon? Not as any (intentional) metaphor for modern issues, but mutants as written as a then-relevant metaphor for then-relevant issues, but written to modern standards.
I know this is about comic books, but I'd love for a video about that 60s Fantastic Four episode with Magneto...where he spends the first part of the ep trying to get to the Baxter Building to challenge the FF (this ep has NOTHING to do with mutant issues!), and it's just Magneto getting stuck in traffic and dicking around with average people lol! He also believes that if he defeats Mr. Fantastic, then that makes him automatically their leader, as if that's how that works...and they go along with it, committing crimes under his leadership! Weird show...
Ah yes, the Kooky Quartet. Lacking the brute power of the first lineup, these Avengers come up against less than galactic threats until the return of the Wasp and Goliath/Giant Man. And yes, I bought this off the rack in a corner shop. Still got it, worn and well read.
This is the lineup of the Avengers that I think of first when I think Avengers. I'm glad Wanda is getting the screen time that she deserves. I wish Quicksilver could have as well, but I'm glad we at least had the time with him that we did.
If I was Cap I would've been so salty. Guess what? We're all quiting and you get to lead three villains. One of which is an archer. Avengers Assemble indeed.
Yeah, no. Rick Jones isn't striking a pose. That's America's Ass that is. Also? "Yes" is what I said, Aloud, when I saw your outfit. Killing the scarlet starlet vibe.
OK- HOW are you making the metallic iron Man voice? Seriously though, excellent analysis of a classic Avengers tale- I remember these books as a kid and thought they were incredible. The idea of heroes being in real cities among 'real' normal folks was revolutionary for the time- the impact of them can't be overlooked.
I like Scarlett Witch, Quicksilver and Hawkeye glad they managed to not do a heal turn. But some of their other choices woof. Maybe do a playlist of each character joining the avengers. I didn't know Namor was asked.
More than the recruitment drives, what I enjoy is when they try to kick out members because there are too many Avengers. Like why do they have both The Swordsman and the Black Knight or Doc Strange and Dr. Druid, Captain America & US Agent? Then some guys just get the complete heave-ho and others are "reserve" Avengers.
I really enjoy your character voices and I like how you laugh at your own wild humor. Your humorous side is a big help to making you a relatable person. This was definitely a different time for superheroes. You do a great job with Your reviews.
I actually do love Quicksilver and Wanda, and its a shame Pietro never really gets a good arc in anything, and if he does, it gets cancelled (Wolverine and the X-Men)
I liked the image of Giant Man sitting in the chair when they're all on the stage. He looks so cramped there with his head up against the ceiling, barely fitting into the chair, while he's giant-sized. Why wouldn't he shrink down to normal size here? Does he think the public wouldn't know he's Giant Man if he wasn't giant-sized?
You've got to love how all a villain has to do to infiltrate the Avengers is rock up and say "Ah yeah, I'm totally a good guy now, cross my heart." I suppose it helps that Tony seems like the kind of guy who's packed up and ready to bolt from the office by 2 'o clock on a Friday. But imagine if a prisoner just punched a guard out and said "Oh don't worry, I'm good now, can I be a guard now?"
I'd love to see more Hawkeye related videos just saying. Hes one of my favorites and is full of sass. I'd like to see him return to the role as a central Avenger or lead the West Coast Avengers again ( original series was fun). Love the videos
6:51 I agree completely with this point! To the point where my friends are probably sick of hearing me repeat it every time an X-Men comic or movie escalates the ham-handedness of the allegory.
If you think about it, Quicksilver's monologue is some foreshadowing prejudices they will be facing in the future. I so enjoyed that whole story line when mutants were considered dangerous & a threat to humanity. Back in the 70s, there used to be a commercial asking "Do you know where your children are?" It may have been in the "Future's past" run but I remember this one panel which was showed a poster & asked "do you know what your children are?" .. I am still impressed with how comics could tell a story of racism & prejudice without "dumbing down" to younger readers, let them realize where evil really resides, in ignorance & narrow mindedness.
So Cap comes back from a mission to find that he's now in charge of a team comprising two ex-terrorists and a former Commie spy. Did Tony Stark have Cap's life insured for a few million, do you reckon?
I like that you are begining to explore the relationships in the Avengers and hope to see more - it's a big fun family free-for-all that spans the decades! Hank Pym and Jan Van Dyne are an on again off again couple; Ultron (Hank's creation/son who also has Hank's brain patterns); Jocasta (bride of Ultron with Jan's brain patterns!); Vision (Ultron's son/creation); Wonderman (Vision had his brain patterns and they were considered brothers for a while); Grim Reaper (Wonderman's biological brother); Scarlet Witch (ex-wife to Vision and also dated Wonderman): Quicksilver (Wanda's brother); Cyrstal (Pietro's ex-wife and a member of the Inhuman Royal Family); Luna (Crystal and Pietro's daughter); Magneto (Wanda and Quicksilver's sometime father): Polaris (Magneto's other daughter); Tigra (Hank Pym's ex-girlfriend who had a baby with a Skrull who was impersonating him); Tommy and Billy (Wanda and Vision's children); and I'm sure there are a few I'm forgetting about.
For a totally wacky read check out the Son of M which is about Quicksilver and Luna. It happens directly after House of M so you should read that book first.
Anyone else notice at timestamp 8:57 Quicksilver has his hand on his "sister's" bottom? I'm thinking Stan kept saying sister to try and remind the artist who used to make strange romance comics not to push the boundaries.
Magenta witch? Perhaps Wanda's real father isn't Magneto, but Magenta. Magenta was a Magneto parody in a fan fiction I created in high school about a support group for mutants who all had useless powers. Given how completely unstable her origin is, I could imagine my lame fan-fiction has already been somehow worked into the origin for a brief period.
Sometimes I wish I could not only have all the old issues of the original Marvel line up, but that I could read them in the actual order they debuted in, to get the "real" experience of what it was like to see the MU grow in those days!
She is also not treated with much respect. By the writers and the members. In the what if comics she is either going on about fashion or being ignored by her literal Husband!
@@pqcowboychanel she's a fashion designer, though. Have you ever met one? Fashion and clothes are their LIFE!! It is their art and they can find a way to talk ON END about shoulder cuffs. Lol
Re: the coloring of the Scarlet Witch. The purplish scans are taken from the files of the 21st century Masterworks restoration (as opposed to the 1990's Masterworks and other reprints), which attempts to more closely replicate the colors as originally published. While I don't own a genuine copy of Avengers #16, I do own actual paper copies of Avengers #26-28. The purplish color IS accurate to the way Wanda's costume was colored ca. 1965-66.
I wonder why Marvel hasn't done a battle between Quicksilver and Speed Demon? That could be interesting. Of course I'm still waiting for the U Foes to take on The Fantastic Four. Maybe someday.
8:06 Five minutes later... > KLANK! KLANK! KLANK! < "Umm... How long did you say we had to wait for an Avenger, mister Stark...?" _(Cut to Tony, hopping on one leg, half-dressed and trying to pull on a red armoured boot)_ "Uhhh, still looking... Nope, not in the library, I'll try in the kitchen..."
Poor Rick! he really IS the most important character in the Marvel universe but they left him out of the MCU entirely! if not for Rick, no Hulk, no Avengers, the original Captain Mar-Vel would be toast and so on! he doesn't even have an ACTION FIGURE!! not even the 3.75 inch kind! nuff said.
I really do like this Avengers line-up, and I think this is the point where the series started to find its identity. The original premise of bringing together all the "top tier" characters (ala the JLA) has its own appeal, but once they started bringing in these lesser-known, quirkier characters, the interactions just got so much more interesting! Roy Thomas has said that when he took over writing the series, he was always trying to get Thor, Iron Man, and Cap back together with the team, but Stan Lee would always veto it. Which instead led him to bring in characters like Hercules, Black Panther, and Vision, and I think the series was better for it.
I may be wrong, but I don’t even think Rick became an Avenger after getting powers as A-Bomb. And since the Avengers really do take anyone and everyone (Sandman? A Doombot? A Madame Masque clone? An old actress with no powers? Really?), that really makes Rick a true laughing stock in my book.
Nice homage to the Scarlet Witch, Sasha. And since when did the Avengers become a second-string team? I remember those days fondly but now, on second thought, they were downright pathetic in accepting anyone to the membership.
As long as they aren’t like, just giving new recruits full reigns all their secrets and tech right off the bat I think having a fairly open joining policy isn’t a bad thing. If they turn out to be evil, well you’ll have them near your home territory so easier to deal with.
Back then the Avengers were always disbanding, each week a different member of the Fantastic Four would quit, and Spider-Man was constantly hanging up his mask or losing his powers.
sasha i have a question, do you actually read the quicksilver parts and then speed them up in post or do you actually read them that fast? just wondering
I read the first few Avengers Essentials black and white phone book size tpbs a couple decades back and their willingness to recruit villains was both consistent and hilariously insane. Yet largely worked out alright in the long term.
Maybe they got a licensing deal with T-Mobile to make Wanda "The Magenta Witch!" Kinda easy for Pietro to pass as a regular Joe. Just drop the hair-horn fixation and keep it on slow. Then again, maybe there's no "slow" setting on him! Wow, yet another blast from my past! No, not quite that old, but I did read a reprint of this in my yout'. Yeah, a little thin, but even Marvel had to walk before it could run, and this *was* 1965. The books were still being made for kids, so no more depth was required. So will you be getting to the Swordsman? He was like Hawkeye/Green Arrow, but he had swords with gimmicks on 'em. He too started out as a villain but later reformed and joined the Avengers. I remember a reprint with him facing off against the Avengers, then later seeing him as a member of the team during the Avengers vs. Defenders cross-over. I know you're deep in the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver lore, but if you're looking for something new, that cross-over saga was pretty epic for its time. Kinda like the annual pre-Crisis JLA/JSA get-togethers, but the teams were actually competing against each other to complete this "Evil Eye" device for some grand purpose, and being manipulated by Dormammu and Loki, the latter of whom was blind at the time for some reason. Now that I'm thinking of it, I think Hawkeye even "defected" to the Defenders during the cross-over. I remember a sequence where Valkyrie took him to the site of his mission when he abruptly laid one on her, and only just dodging her sword in the next panel!
taking a moment out of this lovely recap video to say your outfit and hair are freaking awesome!!!! that is all, lovely video!!! happy to see this awesome channel growing and it'll be 100k subs before you know it!!!
The reason why it happened is Mark Millar. Who made a career put of aping Warren Ellis's shocking turns of phrase without ever considering any deeper meaning to be placed behind them. As for the in-character rationale, in those versions of the history where the twins were raised by Magneto, his pro-mutant bigotry would mean that their mother's lack of mutantness rendered them impure. So that any other mutant would be debasing themselves by pursuing a relationship with either twin. Yielding a "flowers in the attic" vibe for the siblings turning toward each other.
Quicksilver just wants to live his life as himself. Much respect for that.
But only if his sister is there lol
@@toshomni9478 . ° `( ̑▽ ̑´ °).
It's as if the writer of this dialogue understood what it's like to be othered.
@@CasuallyComics Some people just wanna dedicate their lives to seeing someone else live their best life! ...yeah this is the worst unrelated in any other way avatar to have right now, isn't it.
Love the Scarlet Witch red you were wearing!❤❤❤❤
All I learned from this issue is Pietro really loves his sister and that Tony is either careless or forgiving for recruiting former supervillains to the Avengers as he even wanted Namor to join.
Honestly Tony's forgiving nature is something that really disappeared from comics but should make a return. Even in his own comic he was hiring on former supervillains like some sort of billionaire playboy philanthropist or something.
I've read a bunch of Avengers from this era and they were really into recruiting former supervillains.
Marvel characters are very forgiving amd its not just the avengers but the xmen and fantastic four too
Black Knight, Hawkeye, Black Widow...The Avengers really started that "Villains redeemed into Heroes" that the X-Men would later run with, and did it so long ago, many don't even realize it! (Quicksilver's thoughts about not wanting to be constantly reminded of their mutanthood may also be there to explain why they didn't just join the X-Men, instead)
Yeah, 60s female heroes usually had the same personality as Stan Lee's wife and nothing else.
@@itsnotme987 Well it sort of got derivative. They all where beautiful, and caring and hooked up with men who where not in their league.
@@itsnotme987 Nah, it's not that. It's just that variety is the spice of life. Mix it up a bit. A work where every male character was basically just the author's husband would grate on you even if you thought the rest of it should be studied for how great it is. It's like Newton's alchemy obsession. It was important to them, but it's not really something anyone should consider useful for practical application.
@@itsnotme987 It's a public comment thread. That's how comment threads work.
@@itsnotme987 Doesn't matter. By making it public you took on all comers.
@@itsnotme987 Under. Because Stan always thought that Joan was so much better looking and acting than him.
Favorite Sasha quote: "Brotherhood of EVIL mutants" "Masters of EVIL"
Standards are very low when you accepting recently former villains. Avengers are easier to get into than junior college.
How many times have the Avengers get infiltrated, seems like it would be easy.
Villain: "ok, I am a good guy now."
Tony: "Welcome to the Avengers!"
Hmm. Maybe that is the next phase of the MCU. Betrayal from within.
The Avengers would be need new recruits now that the Trinity (Ironman, Cap, and Thor) have left. Hey Zemo, spots open. Lol.
I think i prefer Thor with the Guardians anyway, good chemistry.
"Ahhh! Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"
In another of her videos, he covers when Cap hired Blood Hunter to join as their pilot shortly after he had been battling him. Seems like their enemies could just stop right in the middle of battle, and say they are good guys now and get instantly recruited. I'd love to see like Red Skull, Dr Doom, Thanos, The Leader, and Loki just walk up to the door at the Avengers mansion and say "Hey we're good guys not, and want to join" Then just destroy them from within. Or have so many villains join that they outnumber the other Avengers, call a meeting to instate a new leader, vote in Doom, then fire all the other Avengers.
If theyve reformed they can join
Rick Jones’ thought bubble; “ah, America’s ass...”
From being in the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants to fighting the Masters of Evil. Villain teams used to be more on the nose about their motivations in those days.
now is the time to bring back Captain Nazi in the Shazam movies! We've already got Mister Mind, let's assemble the rest of the Monster Society of Evil
The Magenta Witch is my favorite super hero.
🌸🧙🏻♀️
Sasha's Iron Man voice just edges out her Quicksilver voice as a favorite! We need a Batman/Iron Man teamup cartoon, so she can do both!
One of my favorite comic book issues of all time is from X-Factor, written by Peter David, just after the original team had been replaced by Havok, Polaris, Quicksilver, etc. They all do one-on-one therapy sessions with Doc Samson, and Quicksilver says "You know when you're in a line at the ATM and the people ahead of you are so slow and you feel like you're never going to get to the ATM? That's how I feel all the time. I can move at superspeed but everyone else is moving so slow - it's infuriating." I've never forgotten that analogy - it explains a lot about why Quicksilver is usually portrayed as arrogant and miserable in the comics.
An Idea for a What-if style story, What if Black Widow, Hawkeye, Namor, Scarlet Witch, Wonderman, and Quicksilver were the first Thunderbolts, before being folded into the Avengers?
Can I just point out how iconic Sasha's hair and outfit is here? Stunning!!!!
Speaking of Hawkeye the rude teammate, should we start going through every time he's quit the Avengers? Start a count?
The early formation of Cap's Kooky Quartet! You would never think at this time that these former villain characters would become the Avengers mainstays their known for, and they haven't recruited Widow yet.
Cap in the MCU: Thanks or having our backs, you chose the right side
Iron Man in the 60's: Oh good, was about to disband the team, or choose Rick, and that would be a worst decision (drinks amartini)
If they're going to ride Cap and Iron Man whining at each other into eternity, eventually this ought to come up. Iron Man ditched and left Cap with the job of basically being a super hero probation officer because he was too busy drinking himself to death after one typical series of events in Cap's shoes.
also Cap in the MCU: oh shit! my actions had consequences!? welp time to go live in the woods with my family and avoid facing those consequences, have fun Avengers!
@@aceshighdueceslow You mean Tony? lol
@@GenerationWest ...yes, I totally meant Tony, whoops
Cap is all good, except when he is written as a secret nazi, then everyone needs to feel shame for thinking that was a good idea
@@aceshighdueceslow Uh huh...
Tony Stark, contemplating ditching the Avengers when the going gets tough since 1965
what a hero -_-
I remember Quicksilver saying they joined so they weren’t always reminded by the world that they were mutants. It’s why they joined the Avengers and not the X-men.
I love when Sasha goes all red
It suits her so well!
The first time I saw Quicksilver, he was in his green costume trying to catch Spider-Man in one of Spidey's series. And as fast as he was he was clearly slower than my then favorite hero, the Flash. But, that made me like him all the more for it. Somehow his lesser superspeed made him "more realistic" and more relatable in my kiddo mind.
Oh wow, I wish that tension between acceptance and assimilation from Quicksilver had been examined because it's a feeling I know a lot of people would resonate with, *especially* at the time.
Yeah! That would be a really interesting piece to Pietro to explore. But, nah. He has a sister to hype up
Marvel needs its own Elseworlds. Imagine a work set in the 60s actually using mutants as a metaphor for various oppressions with more time spent on him/that outlook.
@@PosthumanHeresy you mean...."what if...?"
@@PosthumanHeresy The mutants always were a fairly blatant metaphor for various oppressions.
@@kinginthenorth1437 Oh I know that. The problem was always what's on display in this comic: they don't delve into it. They weren't allowed to and if they were any attempt probably would have gone poorly. Just imagine Stan Lee creating realistic oppression dynamics and human psychologies. I'm saying do an Elseworlds-style story that's basically if the best traits of modern comic book writing was applied to the characters and concepts Stan had back then, written as a then-contemporary commentary. A modern-style commentary on oppression but in a historical-setting work written as though it was written by someone using the modern tools in the past, as though those techniques and writing censorship norms existed then. Like, what would a 30 or 40something Holocaust survivor Magneto in the 1960s be written like if he was written today and written realistically sticking with his beliefs and methods in canon? Not as any (intentional) metaphor for modern issues, but mutants as written as a then-relevant metaphor for then-relevant issues, but written to modern standards.
How many aspiring heroes have signed onto Villain teams seeing it as a stepping stone to higher tier Hero teams?
Quicksilver: "And I have a sister with great powers! Her hair is going gray for some reason, but mine is white already so..."
That seems less "Avengers Assemble", more "Avengers Pose For The Camera"
...admittedly that catchphrase would be less catchy
I know this is about comic books, but I'd love for a video about that 60s Fantastic Four episode with Magneto...where he spends the first part of the ep trying to get to the Baxter Building to challenge the FF (this ep has NOTHING to do with mutant issues!), and it's just Magneto getting stuck in traffic and dicking around with average people lol! He also believes that if he defeats Mr. Fantastic, then that makes him automatically their leader, as if that's how that works...and they go along with it, committing crimes under his leadership! Weird show...
Property Damage!!! This why the avenger don’t even trust the Hulk.
I think Hawkeye has a chance with Lois Lane. She wasn't turning down any plates in the golden age..
"No deal Rick Jones, you don't do anything" "Oh don't I?"
Ah yes, the Kooky Quartet. Lacking the brute power of the first lineup, these Avengers come up against less than galactic threats until the return of the Wasp and Goliath/Giant Man. And yes, I bought this off the rack in a corner shop. Still got it, worn and well read.
This is the lineup of the Avengers that I think of first when I think Avengers. I'm glad Wanda is getting the screen time that she deserves. I wish Quicksilver could have as well, but I'm glad we at least had the time with him that we did.
Sasha: I'm zhuzhing up the sexiness for the Scarlet Witch theme.
Mr. Sasha's: 😈😈😈😈😈
If I was Cap I would've been so salty. Guess what? We're all quiting and you get to lead three villains. One of which is an archer. Avengers Assemble indeed.
This comic is a perfect example of what quicksilver can be on his own I love Wanda but pietro has been practically forgotten
Yeah, no.
Rick Jones isn't striking a pose.
That's America's Ass that is.
Also? "Yes" is what I said, Aloud, when I saw your outfit.
Killing the scarlet starlet vibe.
I am here for that top.
I just want to say how I enjoy your narrations and very witty observations in every issue discussed...
Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are awesome Avengers Sasha Wood you look gorgeous in red you should cosplay as the Scarlet Witch
Gotta love how you do the Ironman voice. XD
Lois marries hawkeye next??
Now that would be an event!
I love your Iron Man voice, Sasha! It cracked me up everytime.
Things get chaotic real quick
OK- HOW are you making the metallic iron Man voice? Seriously though, excellent analysis of a classic Avengers tale- I remember these books as a kid and thought they were incredible. The idea of heroes being in real cities among 'real' normal folks was revolutionary for the time- the impact of them can't be overlooked.
I like Scarlett Witch, Quicksilver and Hawkeye glad they managed to not do a heal turn. But some of their other choices woof. Maybe do a playlist of each character joining the avengers. I didn't know Namor was asked.
It may have been the first time, but was not the last. And he did join years later.
I have said it before and I say it again...a history of "The Rick!"
The original design for scarlet witch looks like she has her face stuck in a piece of cardboard. Much like cats in a toast.
THE HAIR THE OUTFIT !!
I come here for the LAWKS ... And the comics
More than the recruitment drives, what I enjoy is when they try to kick out members because there are too many Avengers. Like why do they have both The Swordsman and the Black Knight or Doc Strange and Dr. Druid, Captain America & US Agent? Then some guys just get the complete heave-ho and others are "reserve" Avengers.
No different to the JLA really.
What did you use for the echoing "Tony in the Iron Man armour" voice?
It's a great addition to her spectrum of voices, isn't it?
I really enjoy your character voices and I like how you laugh at your own wild humor. Your humorous side is a big help to making you a relatable person. This was definitely a different time for superheroes. You do a great job with Your reviews.
I actually do love Quicksilver and Wanda, and its a shame Pietro never really gets a good arc in anything, and if he does, it gets cancelled (Wolverine and the X-Men)
I liked the image of Giant Man sitting in the chair when they're all on the stage. He looks so cramped there with his head up against the ceiling, barely fitting into the chair, while he's giant-sized. Why wouldn't he shrink down to normal size here? Does he think the public wouldn't know he's Giant Man if he wasn't giant-sized?
6:59 Ahh there it is again..."MY DREAD POWER"!!!
Wait a minute: You're the Wine Red Witch, aren't you?
The merlot mistress of magic, yes...
You've got to love how all a villain has to do to infiltrate the Avengers is rock up and say "Ah yeah, I'm totally a good guy now, cross my heart." I suppose it helps that Tony seems like the kind of guy who's packed up and ready to bolt from the office by 2 'o clock on a Friday.
But imagine if a prisoner just punched a guard out and said "Oh don't worry, I'm good now, can I be a guard now?"
Avengers West Coast was a great way to allow the C and D leagues to get some shine.
Is it just me or did iron mans suit on that bed look like it wasn't made of iron?
I'd love to see more Hawkeye related videos just saying. Hes one of my favorites and is full of sass. I'd like to see him return to the role as a central Avenger or lead the West Coast Avengers again ( original series was fun). Love the videos
6:51 I agree completely with this point! To the point where my friends are probably sick of hearing me repeat it every time an X-Men comic or movie escalates the ham-handedness of the allegory.
If you think about it, Quicksilver's monologue is some foreshadowing prejudices they will be facing in the future. I so enjoyed that whole story line when mutants were considered dangerous & a threat to humanity. Back in the 70s, there used to be a commercial asking "Do you know where your children are?" It may have been in the "Future's past" run but I remember this one panel which was showed a poster & asked "do you know what your children are?" .. I am still impressed with how comics could tell a story of racism & prejudice without "dumbing down" to younger readers, let them realize where evil really resides, in ignorance & narrow mindedness.
So Cap comes back from a mission to find that he's now in charge of a team comprising two ex-terrorists and a former Commie spy. Did Tony Stark have Cap's life insured for a few million, do you reckon?
I like that you are begining to explore the relationships in the Avengers and hope to see more - it's a big fun family free-for-all that spans the decades!
Hank Pym and Jan Van Dyne are an on again off again couple; Ultron (Hank's creation/son who also has Hank's brain patterns); Jocasta (bride of Ultron with Jan's brain patterns!); Vision (Ultron's son/creation); Wonderman (Vision had his brain patterns and they were considered brothers for a while); Grim Reaper (Wonderman's biological brother); Scarlet Witch (ex-wife to Vision and also dated Wonderman): Quicksilver (Wanda's brother); Cyrstal (Pietro's ex-wife and a member of the Inhuman Royal Family); Luna (Crystal and Pietro's daughter); Magneto (Wanda and Quicksilver's sometime father): Polaris (Magneto's other daughter); Tigra (Hank Pym's ex-girlfriend who had a baby with a Skrull who was impersonating him); Tommy and Billy (Wanda and Vision's children); and I'm sure there are a few I'm forgetting about.
For a totally wacky read check out the Son of M which is about Quicksilver and Luna. It happens directly after House of M so you should read that book first.
Anyone else notice at timestamp 8:57 Quicksilver has his hand on his "sister's" bottom? I'm thinking Stan kept saying sister to try and remind the artist who used to make strange romance comics not to push the boundaries.
Tony sounds like me whenever I suggest we all quit and go home at work everytime something goes wrong
Magenta witch? Perhaps Wanda's real father isn't Magneto, but Magenta. Magenta was a Magneto parody in a fan fiction I created in high school about a support group for mutants who all had useless powers. Given how completely unstable her origin is, I could imagine my lame fan-fiction has already been somehow worked into the origin for a brief period.
I’m still so intrigued by the handsome Hawkeye agenda they were pushing 😂
Sometimes I wish I could not only have all the old issues of the original Marvel line up, but that I could read them in the actual order they debuted in, to get the "real" experience of what it was like to see the MU grow in those days!
Man in some of these old issues it feels like Wasp wants to turn the Avengers into her Harem.
The Avengers? More like Wasp's Him-bos!
ARREST THIS GUY! THEYRE SECRETLY FUNNYMURDERER! THEY ARE AN EVIL SUPERVILLAIN
She is also not treated with much respect. By the writers and the members. In the what if comics she is either going on about fashion or being ignored by her literal Husband!
@@pqcowboychanel she's a fashion designer, though. Have you ever met one? Fashion and clothes are their LIFE!! It is their art and they can find a way to talk ON END about shoulder cuffs. Lol
In fact...
"WHY DON'T WE DISBAND WHILE WE HAVE THE CHANCE??" 😂
Caps Quirky Quartet. 'Nuff said.
Re: the coloring of the Scarlet Witch. The purplish scans are taken from the files of the 21st century Masterworks restoration (as opposed to the 1990's Masterworks and other reprints), which attempts to more closely replicate the colors as originally published. While I don't own a genuine copy of Avengers #16, I do own actual paper copies of Avengers #26-28. The purplish color IS accurate to the way Wanda's costume was colored ca. 1965-66.
I wonder why Marvel hasn't done a battle between Quicksilver and Speed Demon? That could be interesting. Of course I'm still waiting for the U Foes to take on The Fantastic Four. Maybe someday.
"That fruit is too low, even for me." 😂🤣😂🤣
QuickSilver more like quicksilver!
Haha...
I couldnt Come up with an insult for him.
Can you take up my mantle?
QuickSilver? More like Dick in Sister!
(Cue Ultimate Marvel traumatic flashback)
If only everyone knew when this was published that the 3 panels the twins were in would start a domino effect to Scott Lang being nuked from orbit.
5:30 that moment caught me so off guard when I read it.
Who's been reading comics casually?
It's been Sasha all along.
LOVE THE "BLUE STEEL" REFERENCE, AND YOUR USE OF THE DRAMATIZED " EE-villl".
Cap's Kooky's Quartet in Avengers vol 1 16!!!
8:06 Five minutes later...
> KLANK! KLANK! KLANK! <
"Umm... How long did you say we had to wait for an Avenger, mister Stark...?"
_(Cut to Tony, hopping on one leg, half-dressed and trying to pull on a red armoured boot)_
"Uhhh, still looking... Nope, not in the library, I'll try in the kitchen..."
I can't say "love the look" without sounding like a creep
Poor Rick! he really IS the most important character in the Marvel universe but they left him out of the MCU entirely! if not for Rick, no Hulk, no Avengers, the original Captain Mar-Vel would be toast and so on! he doesn't even have an ACTION FIGURE!! not even the 3.75 inch kind! nuff said.
I really do like this Avengers line-up, and I think this is the point where the series started to find its identity. The original premise of bringing together all the "top tier" characters (ala the JLA) has its own appeal, but once they started bringing in these lesser-known, quirkier characters, the interactions just got so much more interesting! Roy Thomas has said that when he took over writing the series, he was always trying to get Thor, Iron Man, and Cap back together with the team, but Stan Lee would always veto it. Which instead led him to bring in characters like Hercules, Black Panther, and Vision, and I think the series was better for it.
I may be wrong, but I don’t even think Rick became an Avenger after getting powers as A-Bomb. And since the Avengers really do take anyone and everyone (Sandman? A Doombot? A Madame Masque clone? An old actress with no powers? Really?), that really makes Rick a true laughing stock in my book.
Nice homage to the Scarlet Witch, Sasha. And since when did the Avengers become a second-string team? I remember those days fondly but now, on second thought, they were downright pathetic in accepting anyone to the membership.
They were actually a second-string team until 2010. Nobody cared about Avengers as much as they did Fantastic Four and X-Men until recently.
I love how oiron mans costume is layed out on the bed drawn like its cloth
I Love when you slide over to Marvel. I actually I love all of the stuff you do. Thanks
As long as they aren’t like, just giving new recruits full reigns all their secrets and tech right off the bat I think having a fairly open joining policy isn’t a bad thing. If they turn out to be evil, well you’ll have them near your home territory so easier to deal with.
Back then the Avengers were always disbanding, each week a different member of the Fantastic Four would quit, and Spider-Man was constantly hanging up his mask or losing his powers.
Now it's the same, but there's more clones.
YOU'VE GOTTA FIND A SCARLET WITCH HEADPIECE. YOU'LL LOOK GREAT IN THAT OUTFIT. ♥️♥️ And FYI they have it on Amazon.
LMAO @ "How badly do they want this vacation?!"
I like how Sasha wants to share her Ultimates trauma with us and she’s just biding her time till she’s ready
sasha i have a question, do you actually read the quicksilver parts and then speed them up in post or do you actually read them that fast? just wondering
I just read them fast lol
@@CasuallyComics Holy speed reading Sasha!
Sasha has become my favorite comic book youtuber
I really like when you so videos on origins, old or relatively old comics (90s and early 2000's). Not so much current.
Oh shoooot 50%!!!! Dang you sold me
Scarlet Witch, first cover appearance...and some bright spark colored her green.
The Avengers will accept everyone...except Spider-Man.
Well he is a menace
@@CasuallyComics In all seriousness, him joining for real in '05(New Avengers era) was LONG overdue.
I read the first few Avengers Essentials black and white phone book size tpbs a couple decades back and their willingness to recruit villains was both consistent and hilariously insane. Yet largely worked out alright in the long term.
oh Casually Comics posted a video, that's a thumbs up
Maybe they got a licensing deal with T-Mobile to make Wanda "The Magenta Witch!"
Kinda easy for Pietro to pass as a regular Joe. Just drop the hair-horn fixation and keep it on slow. Then again, maybe there's no "slow" setting on him!
Wow, yet another blast from my past! No, not quite that old, but I did read a reprint of this in my yout'. Yeah, a little thin, but even Marvel had to walk before it could run, and this *was* 1965. The books were still being made for kids, so no more depth was required. So will you be getting to the Swordsman? He was like Hawkeye/Green Arrow, but he had swords with gimmicks on 'em. He too started out as a villain but later reformed and joined the Avengers. I remember a reprint with him facing off against the Avengers, then later seeing him as a member of the team during the Avengers vs. Defenders cross-over.
I know you're deep in the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver lore, but if you're looking for something new, that cross-over saga was pretty epic for its time. Kinda like the annual pre-Crisis JLA/JSA get-togethers, but the teams were actually competing against each other to complete this "Evil Eye" device for some grand purpose, and being manipulated by Dormammu and Loki, the latter of whom was blind at the time for some reason. Now that I'm thinking of it, I think Hawkeye even "defected" to the Defenders during the cross-over. I remember a sequence where Valkyrie took him to the site of his mission when he abruptly laid one on her, and only just dodging her sword in the next panel!
taking a moment out of this lovely recap video to say your outfit and hair are freaking awesome!!!! that is all, lovely video!!! happy to see this awesome channel growing and it'll be 100k subs before you know it!!!
As a life long Mark Millar enemy I am both excited and terrified of you covering the Ultimates
The reason why it happened is Mark Millar. Who made a career put of aping Warren Ellis's shocking turns of phrase without ever considering any deeper meaning to be placed behind them.
As for the in-character rationale, in those versions of the history where the twins were raised by Magneto, his pro-mutant bigotry would mean that their mother's lack of mutantness rendered them impure. So that any other mutant would be debasing themselves by pursuing a relationship with either twin. Yielding a "flowers in the attic" vibe for the siblings turning toward each other.