What does it say that the best issue in Walt Simonson's run on the title thus far only actually stars any of the primary Avengers in passing? This comic is all Edwin Jarvis, and it's fantastic. Storywise, we have a pretty nice prelude to the madness of the "Inferno" crossover, as Jarvis gads about town and, strangely, inanimate object start attacking people. Jarvis even manages to entrance a young lady whose life he saves, and ends up walking off into the sunset with her at the end of the story.
There's something to that: The young lady, Glory, tracks Jarvis down at the same time that Steve "The Captain" Rogers (having just been fired as Captain America) does. Glory is, of course, struck by his handsomeness, but in the end says she's been looking for "someone with enough courage to be a hero and enough gentleness to be a man." Which, I think, is a rather nice articulation of exactly what Jarvis is, and perhaps what those shy and retiring young boys who read the comic are.
To be continued.
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