What a surprise!

Well, Mighty Avengers #5 was duly read, and imagine my surprise that Lindy had, in fact, been killed by Ultron. I guess I wasn't too surprised, as I reflected that she'd been conspicuously absent in the World War Hulk issues (set after this MA arc) that have featured Sentry to date. Bob appears to have retreated to the house they moved to when he forgot about being Sentry, which would be a source of happier memories than the site of his wife's death.

I'm irked that the writers seem to have conveniently ignored CLOC for the sake of 'drama', and assuming Lindy won't miraculously be raised or we discover a fake-out in the next issue, we can chalk it down to another background character being killed off to 'advance' a storyline. In this respect, Ultron vaguely resembles an editor in choosing to kill Lindy for the sake of getting a reaction from Sentry, though I suspect any meta-commentary in this is accidental at best.

Sigh. That also, of course, leaves Watchdog as Sentry's only surviving original supporting character. Talk about hammering the square Sentry peg into the round mainstream MU hole.

Lindy in Refrigerators

Oh joy. It seems, from the previews of Mighty Avengers #5 floating about, that Lindy is in fact deceased, killed by Extremis-Ultron to unleash the Void aspect of Rob Reynolds. What a wonderful meta-commentary on the current rows over creators using female members of the supporting cast as expendable pawns!

Or, alternatively, what a hopeless and hackneyed plot device. I guess we'll see when we pick up the issue itself.