Source: marvel.com
5. “Growing Pains”
Writer: Kurt Busiek
Artist: Mark Bagley
Atlas finally gets some time to shine here when The Growing Man, a mechanical former minion of Kang the Conqueror, goes on a rampage.
Here we see that Atlas needs to be enraged to achieve a certain height without dissipating, which bodes badly for his heroic future. Meanwhile, Jolt and Moonstone are bonding, but it’s pretty clear this is just part of Moonstone’s greater plan to outplay Zemo. Also, Zemo is very bad at pretending to be a hero. He just shouts at everyone and gets mad very quickly and it’s a fun time. Everybody else is either actually trying or good at pretending but Zemo is a perpetual villain and it shows.
In either this issue or the next, G.W. Bridge mentions that this incarnation of the Masters of Evil was the most ruthless and successful and that’s true. It was this team that wrecked Avengers mansion and decimated the team during Under Siege and remembering that is key to this whole story.
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