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.

Where does Lindy live?

I figure this one's been on sale long enough to avoid spoilerization, and to be honest I just picked up a huge backlog from my LCS on Sunday.

Two small things bothered me slightly about Mighty Avengers #4, when Extremis-Ultron broke into Avengers Tower to (apparently) assassinate Lindy Reynolds - firstly, wouldn't she be in the Watchtower above the actual Avengers suite? Secondly, if that was the case, should CLOC not at least have put in a token appearance trying to stop Ultron? I find it hard to believe that Sentry's own computer system wouldn't be hardened against EMP or outward attacks - given that CLOC's security system was originally designed to be impregnable even to the Golden Guardian himself!