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New Avengers: The Reunion is a 4-issue comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics, in March–June 2009. Written by Jim McCann and illustrated by David Lopez, the series follows the adventures of Barbara Morse/Mockingbird and Clint Barton/Ronin.

After the events of Secret Invasion, the fallen Avenger Mockingbird returned from Skrull captivity to join the New Avengers team. During the Dark Reign period, she tries to readjust to her new life with Clint Barton's help.

Publication
A preview of the series was introduced in Dark Reign: New Nation (December 17, 2008).

The series is composed of four issues:
 * New Avengers: The Reunion #1 - The Lady Vanishes (March 4, 2009)
 * New Avengers: The Reunion #2 - Kiss Me Deadly (April 1, 2009)
 * New Avengers: The Reunion #3 - Double Indemnity (May 6, 2009)
 * New Avengers: The Reunion #4 - The Avenger Who Came in From the Cold (June 3, 2009)

Due to the success of the sales, Marvel Comics launched a second printing variant of New Avengers: The Reunion #1 - The Lady Vanishes which was on sale in April 8, 2009.

The trade paperback New Avengers: The Reunion collecting New Avengers Reunion #1-4 and material from Dark Reign: New Nation was published in March 2010.

Summary
Bucky Barnes, the new Captain America, warns Clint Barton than his ex-wife Bobbi may not be the same. Mockingbird infiltrates a hospital in New Jersey. Ronin joins her but she doesn't want her ex-husband to be there. They discover a secret facility controlled by Advanced Idea Mechanics. The organization had manufactured a biological weapon that they plan to use in Zaragoza, Spain. The bomb is already in ... They go to a safehouse, created when she was a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, where she keeps an armory. They discuss her motivation. Ronin uses a net to trap her then calls New Avengers.

Reception

 * "McCann keeps the pace brisk and the mystery deep in this first issue; an issue that leaves you wondering which end is up by the end... I'm sticking with this one until the end to find out what happens with both." – Ain't It Cool News, Aintitcool.com
 * "This is an Avengers reunion; a family reunion, and there is heart in this issue that goes beyond Clint and Bobbi." – Jay Tomio, Bookspotcentral.com
 * "McCann does an excellent job… spinning conflicting webs of reality and nostalgia. David Lopez does a fantastic job of using facial expressions and mannerisms to capture the argumentative tone McCann is going for. From a storytelling standpoint, Lopez doesn't miss a beat." – Daniel Crown, IGN.com
 * "I think the book is written wonderfully." – Paul Brian McCoy, Comicsbulletin.com

New Avengers: Reunion is introspective. Jim McCann explores the complicated Hawkeye and Mockingbird relationship. 7.4 out of 10

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Sequel
Marvel launched in June 2010 Hawkeye and Mockingbird as part of Marvel Comic's Heroic Age, which reunite McCann and Lopez for the continued adventures of the couple of heroes.

Fictional character biography
Greystone is from the same alternate future as Bishop, Archer, Fixx, and Shard. He is a member of the Xavier Underground Enforcers (XUE), a rogue branch of the Xavier's Security Enforcers (XSE) who wanted to travel back in time and change their future.

When he was a child, Greystone lived with his mother in a type of mutant concentration camp. As part of their punishment, each prisoner was required to have an "M" branded over their right eye to outwardly signify their status as a mutant. During his branding process by an evil man named Micah, Greystone panicked and—due to the large amount of stress—manifested his mutant power years before the traditional onset at puberty. This resulted in him breaking the machine (leaving him with only a partial brand), and trying to break out with his mother. Micah shot and killed her and was about to kill Greystone too if not for the incitement of the Summers Rebellion which ultimately led to mutant freedom. However, this was not as grand as it seemed, for Greystone became an orphan and a street urchin outside of the confines of the camp.

Upon discovering that Shard was in the present, the X.U.E. managed to travel back in time due to the psionic link Fixx created between the members of the X.U.E. which Shard was also a member of, and inhabited the bodies of three recently deceased people. Greystone inhabited the body of the adolescent teen Brian Young.

While looking in the newspaper one day, Greystone happens to see the picture of a young boy named Micah. He immediately recognizes him as the same Micah who murdered his mother and concocts a plan to murder the child, thus averting his future and his mother's death. He, along with Fixx and Archer, track down the boy and Greystone tries to kill him. Archer and Fixx convince him that it is unethical to condemn the child for crimes he has not yet committed and the trio leaves. They had tried to change the future but instead ended up joining X-Factor.

Greystone slowly developed temporal insanity, believing that his mission was accomplished, and he could go home to a better world and be reunited with his mother, who might theoretically be alive. In an attempt to return to his own time, Greystone built a flying time machine, but due to shoddy craftmanship and unsound theories, the craft exploded, seemingly killing Greystone and Havok, who was attempting to stop him.

Powers and abilities
Greystone can increase his body mass, density, durability, stamina and strength exponentially but at a price: the bigger he gets, the more deformed and horrific-looking he becomes. Greystone can appear as his host body or in his original body—humorously a small, white child—also carrying the memories from both bodies.

Effects
MGH grants temporary powers to whoever takes it, described as a "temporary genetic shift". Usually, when the source is unspecified, the effect is increased strength and aggression. If someone who already has superhuman powers takes MGH, those powers are enhanced.

History
The first appearance of MGH is in Amazing Adventures (vol. 2) #11 created by Dr. Hank McCoy, also known as the X-Man Beast. McCoy discovered what would later become MGH while working for the Brand Corporation. He consumed it in an effort to protect his fledgling discovery from a rival scientist. The (not yet addictive) drug caused Beast to grow gray fur (which later turned blue) all over his body and acquire sharp ears, elongated canine teeth, claws, enhanced senses and an accelerated healing factor. When he could not reverse the mutation, McCoy came to accept his fate, though his actions continue to haunt him to this day.

In one supposed appearance of the drug, it was passed around to a party crowd which gave them all very familiar powers and caused them to run amok. The drug was not named, but it could easily have been MGH. A drug with very similar uses was being sold by the Vanisher soon after.

MGH came to prominence in comics written by Brian Michael Bendis. It was central to the plots of the Lowlife story arc in Daredevil, in which the Owl was refining his own mutant genetic material and building a criminal empire by dealing it (his dealers claimed it was from Spider-Man).

In the The Underneath arc of Alias, Mattie Franklin, the third Spider-Woman, was exploited as the source of the material. This storyline is being followed up in The Loners miniseries, in which Mattie, Darkhawk and Ricochet target the MGH dealers and the mutant Nekra.

Patriot of the Young Avengers was revealed as a user of MGH. Having no superpowers of his own, he misled his teammates into believing he had inherited his grandfather Isaiah Bradley's superpowers, when in fact Patriot was regularly taking MGH in order to be as effective as his teammates in battle. (He took the drug from street distributors and manufacturers whom he apprehended.) When this secret was revealed, he quit the drug and the team, though he later rejoined, obtaining powers similar to the ones he claimed from a blood transfusion by his grandfather. At this time it was also revealed that the criminal Mister Hyde was producing a derivative of the formula that granted him his powers as a form of MGH.

The Runaways have also encountered the drug on their jaunt to New York City. Cloak, of Cloak and Dagger, was pursued by the New Avengers after being caught on tape savagely beating Dagger, an attack which landed her in the hospital. It was later revealed that Reginald Mantz, an orderly at that same hospital, was the one behind the attack, mimicking Cloak's powers using MGH. (Deluded, Mantz considered Dagger to be his "girlfriend.")

Wolverine discovered that Nitro had been taking MGH to boost his power, which allowed him to devastate Stamford, killing over 600 people. Said event would lead to the Superhuman Registration Act and the superhero Civil War.

Alexander Bont, a pre-Kingpin criminal leader sent to prison by young Daredevil, consumed the drug after release from prison as means to get revenge on the superhero. In his case, the effect of the MGH was too much for his elderly body to endure, and his heart exploded.

In Uncanny X-Men #490; Endangered Species chapter 10, it was revealed that after the events of M-Day all stock of MGH that was obtained from previously-powered mutants was no longer viable. However, all of the MGH taken from still-powered mutants is fine.

"Banshee" (Ultimate Marvel)
In the Ultimate X-Men #94, a drug similar to MGH called Banshee is introduced. When taken by mutants, the drug enhances their powers. Its effects on non-mutant superhumans has not yet been shown, but it has been stated that "gives normal humans temporary powers. Flight.  Invisibility." but also that one human who thought he was intangible jumped in front of a train, with deadly results.

History
The Ultimate version of Alpha Flight kidnaps Northstar, after neutralizing the X-Men with near god-like powers. When Colossus begins to mount a plan to rescue him, it is discovered that he has been using a type of Mutant Growth Hormone named Banshee that has granted him his incredible strength; although his mutation allows him to turn his body into steel, without the Banshee he would not have the strength to move. At the end of the issue, Ultimate Rogue, Angel, Nightcrawler, and Dazzler have all taken Banshee to aid Colossus in his rescue of Northstar, dramatically changing their appearances.

Wolverine goes to Spider-Man to figure out why he was tested positive for Banshee. Spider-Man/Peter Parker is able to determine that someone used Wolverine's DNA as the basis for Banshee. It is revealed that Charles Xavier and Magneto developed Banshee, but Xavier cancelled the project when he realized its addictive effects. Moira MacTaggert with support from Magneto began production to fund her facility.

Parallels with the reality
In an interview with Comic Book Resources, the writer Aron Coleite explains that in his Ultimate X-Men story arc, "Absolute Power", the parallels between the Banshee drug and Major League Baseball’s human growth hormone (HGH) scandal are not accidental. "I'm not an idiot, I knew those players were using steroids, I knew that's what was going on -- there's no way people can pitch like that, that they can hit like that. I knew it was all going on, but even so to have that confirmed. I couldn't believe how angry I was, how betrayed I felt, you know? Because I'm a lifelong fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers, there are so many people on that list that I didn't want to believe were doing steroids! I was so in denial about it, but when it happened it all made sense -- unfortunately -- and it sullied their accomplishments, and years of emotional investing in them was kind of thrown away. I thought, well, these people were heroes to me, they were heroes to a lot of kids. What would happen if my other heroes were caught using drugs? How would I react? How would the characters react? The idea sprung from there."

- Aron Coleite

"There are two sides to the argument. The argument is, yeah, people shouldn't use steroids, but the other side of that is, if everybody's using then you need to stay competitive. That was Colossus's rational argument, that there are dangerous people out there and we need every advantage that we can get. We can't necessarily just rely on our training or our mutations."

- Aron Coleite