Tom Brevoort wrote:
AVENGERS DISASSEMBLED – AVENGERS #500-503
Elektra Skrull takes over Hand, mentions Avengers are no more – MIGHTY #16
Actually, in that flashback in MA 16 in which Elektra takes over the Hand, the Hydra leader states, “word from America is that the mighty Avengers have disbanded in failure.” This might be a reference to the team's official disbanding in A:FINALE, "three months" after A 503. Here's the chronology that leads me to this conclusion:
GIANT-SIZE SPIDER-WOMAN #1
A reference to "whatever the hell happened at Avengers Mansion that killed
half the team" is to A 503.
NEW AVENGERS #14 – FB (9:5-11)
The same day as GSSW 1. Connely tells Jessica that Hydra will give her her powers back if she gets reinstated by SHIELD and agrees to be a double agent for the bad guys. Jessica meets with Fury, who asks her work against Hydra as a double agent for SHIELD.
NEW AVENGERS #14 – FB (12)
Perhaps the day after A4 14-FB (9-11). In a Hydra lab, Jessica begins the procedure that will restore her powers.
NEW AVENGERS #42 (3-7)
The same day as A4 14-FB (12). After Jessica loses consciousness, the Hydra doctors are revealed as Skrulls, and Veranke undergoes the process to become a Spider-Woman imposter, with all Jessica’s memories.
MIGHTY AVENGERS #16 – FB (17-18)
This flashback must occur after A4 42 (3-7) since Veranke appears as Jessica Drew. Pagon, the Elektra Skrull, meets with Veranke in New York. They embrace as Veranke notes the sacrifice the Elektra Skrull will make in bringing earth to its knees.
MIGHTY AVENGERS #16 – FB (19-22)
Probably the same night as A:FINALE. This flashback occurs “one week” after MA 16-FB (17-18). In Japan, a Hydra leader informs the Hand that “word from America is that the mighty Avengers have disbanded in failure” (probably the official disbanding) and that “Tony Stark embarrassed himself” at the U.N. (a months-old reference). He calls for unity between Hydra and Hand, then the Elektra Skrull kills him and tells the Hand they sicken her by working for terrorists. She beheads a Hand leader in battle and the assembled assassins kneel in fealty to her.
So, Spider-Woman is replaced by Veranke after Disassembled.
Then Veranke, as Jessica, meets with the Elektra Skrull*
Then the Elektra Skrull takes over the Hand when there is news of the Avengers' disbanding.
[*Hey, Jeph, is the Elektra Skrull named Pagon (as noted in MA 16) or Siri (as noted in SKRULLS!). Nice work on SKRULLS!, by the way!
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BUT I see a big problem:
Before GSSW 1, in A4 40 (15-21), Veranke decides to take on Jessica's identity after the Elektra Skrull tells her she's been on earth "for the last cycle," and has "had communication and interaction with SHIELD commander Nick Fury, a man code-named Daredevil, the mutant Wolverine, and members of the assassin consortium known as the Hand. My identity was not detected." Is this a reference to the whole W3 20-31 story arc? I have that story arc as happening after A:FINALE, not before. Is MA 16–FB (19-22) telling us that the Enemy of the State and Wolverine: Agent of SHIELD arcs occur prior to the Avengers disbanding?
OR, could the "word from America" not be news at all but just an observation about the months-old situation in the U.S.? That way, MA 16-FB (19-22) could occur after where I have W3 31 but before the Raft breakout that brings the Avengers back together. This is my preference, and is still in keeping with Brevoort's chronology (complete with gap after A 503).