If the Fantastic Four were about an elemental family, and the X-Men about making it through high school despite geekiness, body issues and/or sexual confusion, then the Avengers- with a rotating cast as baffling as that of ER- seems to me about the insecurity of belonging to a large corporation whose rules keep on shifting and whose members keep on quitting, being fired, or going postal on their own.
Not that I'm projecting anything there.
(Thanks to Marvel's Digital Comics Unlimited, I get to see what the big deal was about Jack Kirby's work on "The Avengers", and BIG is the operative word: bold-lined frog-like faces that want to pop out of every panel as though two super-hero dimensions just weren't enough to contain them.)
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Art Adams doing old school Iron Man armor is the shit.
Interesting point about the Avengers, by the way.
It seemed to me that whenever a particular Avengers cast got together they always argued and behaved as adults (as opposed to the X-Men whose concerns were always those of teenagers). I might be reading too much into this stuff, though ;-)
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