The heroes of Marvel Comics are presently having some hassle with being harshly judged by an unstoppable space-god. And this week noticed one other long-anticipated growth within the blockbuster occasion collection AXE: Judgment Day.

In May, Marvel Comics printed its retailer solicitations for the month, together with a short description of Avengers #60, which acknowledged: “Hawkeye must prove that he brings at least as much joy and usefulness to the world as a randomly chosen mailbox.”

In regard to which I had just one factor to say: “God, I hope that’s meant literally.” Now, we lastly know the reply.

What else is occurring within the pages of our favourite comics? We’ll inform you. Welcome to Monday Funnies, Polygon’s weekly listing of the books that our comics editor loved this previous week. It’s half society pages of superhero lives, half studying suggestions, half “look at this cool art.” There could also be some spoilers. There might not be sufficient context. But there can be nice comics. (And if you happen to missed the final version, learn this.)

Image: Mark Russell, Greg Land, Jay Leisten/Marvel Comics

Reader, it was literal. In the tip, Clint gave up hope that he’d cross the Progenitor’s check, however the Celestial pardoned him anyway. Not as a result of he had all the time executed the precise issues, however as a result of had demonstrated his capability to develop. “Which,” the Progenitor stated, “apparently, a mailbox cannot do.”

Image: David Hein, Luciano Vecchio/Marvel Comics

I’ve been skimming the pre-End of Spider-Verse anthology points, Edge of Spider-Verse, fairly exhausting. I suppose it’s simply exhausting to invent a cool new Spider-Variant lately after so many official and fan-created ones have gone earlier than. T. rex Spider-Man? Come on, DC simply did that to the entire dang Justice League.

But this week had some Spider-Variants that lastly made me sit up and have a wise chuckle: Spinstress, the Disney Princess of Spiderpersons, full together with her speaking spider companion and her love curiosity, the good-looking bard Merry James Watson.

And Peter Parkedcar, the Spider-Man of a Cars-like universe. Did I simply coin the phrase “Cars-like”? I hope so.

Image: Dan Slott, Dono Sánchez-Almara/Marvel Comics

Image: Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo/DC Comics

Using an imitation Comics Code Authority seal as a censor bar. Will I ever get uninterested in this joke? No. The reply is not any.