New Avengers #3 (2013)
Written by Jonathan Hickman
Artwork by Steve Epting
Colors by Frank D’Armata
Chef’s Note: A simple scene – a prison cell, a man, a woman, and a plate of french fries. And yet, it is one full of ominous foreboding, and one which provokes many questions.
The most important of which is, obviously – what’s going on with that plate of fries?
It is interesting that it opens with Black Swan asking “what are these called again?” This means Reed has provided her with fries on a prior occasion already. In an earlier scene, she made it clear that torture did not scare her. As such it is clear that Reed has decided to provide carrots instead of a stick, and has apparently done so more than once.
Except carrots would make very few people wax poetic on how wonderful food can taste, so, being one of the smartest people in the world, Reed decided on french fries to facilitate his interrogation instead.
They really do make everything better.
Chef’s Note: Happy National French Fry Day!