Wednesday, October 28, 2015

The Mighty Avengers Vol. 1: Assemble

This is the first volume of Brian Michael Bendis's second Avengers title The Mighty Avengers.  Tony Stark won the Civil War & has been made the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. now he is putting together United States sanctioned Avengers team.  Stark brings in Ms. Marvel as team leader but instead he is the one really running the show.  Other Marvel characters to debut in this collection as part of the Mighty Avengers are Wasp, Sentry, Wonder Man, Black Widow & Ares.  Unlike Luke Cage & company in New Avengers this team is all over the place the only characters that have any real chemistry are former Avengers.  There are two main story-arcs in this collection The Initiative story is first showing the team take on their first threat in the form of Ultron taking over Tony Stark's new Extremis suit.  The second story-arcshows the Avengers taking on a Symbiote attack on New York City.  This attack leads the Avengers to Latveria to take on Doctor Doom.  Overall the second story is really great with twist & turns & it ties in with what has been happening in New Avengers & how they found out that Elektra was a Skrull.  Now Iron Man has been informed by Jessica Drew aka Spider-Woman that Elektra was a Skrull & shares the fears of Luke Cage's team that this is the start of an impending invasion.  The first story in this book sucked to high heaven Ultron in a female body that resembles Janet Van Dyne is just a horrible premise.  There are two major complaints I have about this book other than the Ultron story.  First I really hate the change of writing style were the inner monologue is connected with the spoken dialog this created confusion all through the first half of the book.  The second problem I have with this collection is the art work.  Frank Cho just does not seem to bring his A game to this book I have seen great Cho work before & this just doesn't work.  Bendis is setting up Secret Invasion quite nicely in this book & setting up Tony Stark for the biggest fall of his life since the Demon in a Bottle story.


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