Writer: Steve Foxe
Art: Luca Maresca and R.B. Silva
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Price:$5.99
Reviewed by: Anonymous
Release Date: July 9th, 2025
WHO PULLS THE STRINGS? As the SUPERIOR AVENGERS solidify their place as EARTH’S MIGHTIEST HEROES, the cracks begin to show. Where does each member’s loyalty lie? And can they stay together long enough to reach their ultimate goal?
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THE DISPATCH
Four issues in, and Superior Avengers has officially shifted from a bold new team-up to a tightly coiled powder keg. Writer Steve Foxe peels back the sleek, confident exterior of Earth’s new “Mightiest Heroes” to reveal a tangled web of distrust, conflicting agendas, and power plays. Superior Avengers #4 is the most introspective issue of the series so far—and possibly the most dangerous.
Up until now, the Superior Avengers—a team forged in the wake of public distrust, multiversal instability, and the decline of traditional heroics—have presented themselves as the iron-clad future of superhero unity. But as the issue’s synopsis warns: “the cracks begin to show.”
Foxe plays those cracks like a symphony of tension. What began as a coalition of necessity now feels like a house of cards. We see hidden conversations, coded side missions, and more than one Avenger operating with dual loyalties. And while there’s no explosive betrayal yet, this issue makes it clear: someone is pulling the strings—and more than one team member may be helping them, knowingly or not.
Superior Spider-Man (Otto Octavius), who co-founded the team alongside White Widow and Blue Marvel, continues to walk the line between reform and manipulation. In this issue, we start to wonder if even he knows whether he’s still the puppetmaster… or the puppet. His obsession with order and legacy clashes hard with Blue Marvel’s moral clarity, and their ideological conflict bubbles to the surface in a tense lab-side argument that’s easily the issue’s best scene.
Meanwhile, White Widow’s mysterious solo excursions hint at a larger intelligence operation at play—possibly S.H.I.E.L.D., possibly something worse. Her loyalty has always been in question, but Foxe drops a twist that makes it clear her game is far bigger than her teammates realize.
We also get key development from lesser-featured members like Wasp (Nadia Van Dyne) and Power Man (Victor Alvarez), whose faith in the team—and in Octavius—is beginning to fray. Nadia’s scientific acumen gives her insight into the strange energy signature that’s been subtly building since issue #2, while Victor plays the audience’s stand-in, increasingly voicing what readers may be thinking: Is this team built on anything but ego and secrets?
Foxe’s writing here shines not in bombast, but in character friction. Every panel is loaded with meaning. Every word choice feels like it could be a clue. It’s not just about who’s pulling the strings—it’s about who’s already tangled in them.
Artist Lan Medina delivers some of his strongest work of the series to date. The tone of this issue leans noir—tight interiors, slanted angles, reflections in glass—and Medina embraces it, giving the book a paranoid, espionage-laced energy. Characters often appear divided by shadows, mirrors, or frames within frames, visually reinforcing the idea that no one is entirely what they seem.
When the action does hit—namely, a high-tech infiltration by a splinter cell of renegade AIM agents—it’s fast, fluid, and brutal. Medina makes every blow count, but always brings the reader back to the emotional core: these are heroes with something to prove, and everything to lose.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Superior Avengers #4 is a masterclass in slow-burn storytelling. Steve Foxe isn’t just writing a team book—he’s building a pressure chamber. This isn’t about assembling heroes. It’s about watching what happens when the wrong people, or maybe just the right people with the wrong motivations, are forced to stay together under a microscope. With betrayals looming, ideologies clashing, and a looming endgame that still feels just out of reach, this issue confirms it: Superior Avengers is Marvel’s smartest, most politically charged team book in years.