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Avengers, Vol. 4 by Brian Michael Bendis

shane_tiernan's review

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3.0

This one was kind of all over the place, Avengers fighting Hydra, Red Hulk trying to assassinate Cyclops, Avengers trying to capture the Phoenix and getting betrayed by the Protector (which was detailed in Secret Avengers), and finally a hilarious issue with Hawkeye and Spider Woman having a lover's quarrel while beating up about 50 demon-masked ninjas and Mr. Negative.

bobbyk's review

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Liked it overall, a solid tie-in selection to AvX.

tabman678's review

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2.0

This contains six issues. And in those six issues there are four stories. Of those four I think one is good, one is interesting, one is out of place, and one is a small scene that became an issue in a bad way.

The good story is concerning the Red Hulk going to assassinate Cyclops, which is interesting. I’ve moved up my reading for Red Hulk just because of this.

The interesting is the one that concerns the protector and the group that goes to stop the Phoenix force in space. He betrays them and that’s interesting, but a large part of the story is in another title and it ends where the second act should begin. Overall disappointing.

The out of place story is the Avengers trying to take out the mutant mind readers and Charles Xavier shows up. It really should have been in the main AVX title.

The small scene that became too big concerns the Hawkeye-Spider-Woman relationship. It became bad because it doesn’t lead to anything here and stops rather suddenly and feels contrived . Though that is the nature of their relationship so it may not be the issue itself but the relationship.

The art is inked well I’ll say. But varies in quality. Sometimes characters look the same and there seems to only be three head shapes. Then the big and stocky, slender and thin, and wispy body types.

Didn’t enjoy myself very much but I liked the Red Hulk chapter.

2 stars.

birdmanseven's review

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3.0

This issues add some needed character development to the ongoing Avengers Vs. X-Men saga, but not nearly as strong as the book started.

For more on this series tune in to this episode of Comic Book Coffee Break: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj5wmMQ8-2A

davramlocke's review

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1.0

This is such an incomplete, unresolved collection that the publishers should be embarrassed that it exists.
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