Pet Avengers Fight Again!

My favorite super-team, the Pet Avengers, made another recent appearance.  Thor and the Warriors Four mini-series just wrapped up with its fourth issue.  I originally wrote about this mini back in April.  Overall, the entire mini was consistently well-written and evenly paced.  It told how the Power Pack kids, desperate to save their dying grandmother, learn of Idunn's apples of immortality and go on a quest to fabled Asgard to pluck a magic apple.  Of course, this whole thing's been engineered by the fiendish Loki.  He wants the apples for himself so that he can cause all of Asgard to grow old and dye, leaving him as Asgard's only surviving leader. 

However, Loki didn't consider that his machinations would herald in Ragnarok AKA the Twilight of the God AKA the end of the world!  And nobody can herald in Ragnarok quite like Jormungand, the Midgard Serpent!  It's been prophesied that Jormungand will take down Thor at the end of the world and frankly he's not that picky if a few frost giants and Asgardians get in his way.    Without hesitation, Thor flies into battle against Jormungand with the Power Pack kids at his side.  Well, all of the Power Pack kids except team leader Alex Power AKA Zero G.  He quickly realizes that they can't save Asgard by themselves.  They need additional help.  They need unrivaled super-heroic excellence.  They need the coolest super-team alive!:

Alex could have wished for any super-team to fight by his side.  The Avengers, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four...  Heck, he could have even wished for the Skrull Kill Krew.  Instead, he summoned the Pet Avengers (Lockheed, Zabu, Hairball, Lockjaw, Ms. Lion, Frog Thor (AKA Throg), and Redwing)!  Turns out that their appearance was less the result of summoning and more the result of coincidence, as explained by Frog Thor:

Fortunately, the Pet Avengers are more than willing to join the battle to save Asgard.

Thanks to some timely assists by Frog Thor and some clever problem-solving by Power Pack member Julie Power AKA Lightspeed, Idunn's magic apples were retrieved from Loki, the Asgardians were restored to their immortal ages, the Midgard Serpent slinked away, and Ragnarok was averted!

I was musing the other day that the Pet Avengers are really making the rounds these days.  They've battled Thanos, the Golden One, Red Ghost's super-apes, and Franklin Richards' garbage monster, as well as the God of Mischief Loki and the Midgard Serpent.  In a few weeks, they'll be teaming up with the regular Avengers and going up against the mighty Fin Fang Foom.  Not too shabby for a group that lacks even one opposable thumb!