The Ashen Combine sounds like a weird name for a group of villains. I keep thinking about a combine harvester that’s, like, ashy. Like maybe it got caught in a volcano. And it makes you wonder: What happened to the farmers who used this ashy combine harvester? A whole civilization wiped out. All that corn, gone to waste.
Ugh.
Anyway, here’s a preview of next week’s Avengers #4, in which Earth’s Mightiest Heroes fight the ashy combine harvesters. Scroll down for the basic deets, and check out Armaan Babu and Anna Peppard’s coverage of the series.
(W) Jed MacKay (A) C.F. Villa (CA) Stuart Immonen
Battle is joined as the Avengers race to combat the Ashen Combine. But with Lord Ennui, the Citysmith, Idol Alabaster, the Dead and Meridian Diadem scattered across the planet, each with their own city for prey, have the Avengers spread themselves too thin? United, the Avengers stand. But divided…?
Rated T+
In Shops: Aug. 9, 2023
SRP: $3.99
Dan Grote is the editor-in-chief of ComicsXF, having won the site by ritual combat. By day, he’s a newspaper editor, and by night, he’s … also an editor. He co-hosts WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast with Matt Lazorwitz. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, two kids and two miniature dachshunds, and his third, fictional son, Peter Winston Wisdom.
