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3.06 AVERAGE
3.06 AVERAGE
The only decent part of this book is the introduction by Clark Gregg; the rest is a humorless mess.
This had some of the best teasing Avengers banter.
I laughed out loud more than once.
I laughed out loud more than once.
What if Warren Ellis wrote an Avengers movie?
Ellis deftly weaves a story combining Thor's Norse myth, Cap's links to WWII and Tony's weapons manufacturing with a sprinkle of Hulk is a bomb thrown in. Black Widow, Hawkeye, Wolverine, and Captain Marvel round out the cast and offer fun banter.
It is a fun, self-contained graphic novel.
Ellis deftly weaves a story combining Thor's Norse myth, Cap's links to WWII and Tony's weapons manufacturing with a sprinkle of Hulk is a bomb thrown in. Black Widow, Hawkeye, Wolverine, and Captain Marvel round out the cast and offer fun banter.
It is a fun, self-contained graphic novel.
A pretty underwhelming story from Warren Ellis. The Avengers must stop a Nazi space dragon (which is nowhere near as cool as it sounds) while dealing with Cap's feelings of mortality as a man out of time. Most of the supporting cast, particularly Captain Marvel, were horribly underutilized. McKone's art was ok, but the coloring did it no favors and made it feel off at times.
The characters are thinly drawn caricatures and the plot is pretty standard. The art is okay but not great. I didn't hate (spoiler alert) the idea that the heroes are creating the threat by their presence/existence, but it has been done so many times and in much better ways. Not a terrible waste of an hour or two, but there are much more satisfying Avengers stories out there to be had.
Not sure what to say about this; there are good bits, but the ultimate impression is mediocre. Possibly it's because the fight scenes bored me. A monster made of monsters and artifacts that Cap and Thor left behind has appeared in not!Afghanistan, and the Avengers need to put it down before it kills more people. It's an unofficial mission, because the US is currently aiding the resistance to not!Afghanistan's government-by-coup. It seems at first like this is going to be a much bigger plotline than it turns out to be. If there's a throughline here, it's Steve Rogers' alienation from the present day, his sense of being a ghost or a relic; and perhaps only belonging to an endless war he does not believe is endless. Ellis has to twist characters around to make his point -- not Rogers' paradoxical soldierly devotion to peace (while acting in a war), which is well-established -- but the character that suddenly becomes a mouthpiece for the Theme of Endless Wartime in the final few pages. It would have worked better as Natasha Romanov.
Eh. There are a lot of pieces that could have come together to make a powerful story, but they don't. It feels too short. It probably would have worked better with more length and more devotion to character interaction (and less to establishing background for the plot).
Artwork is fine as long as there aren't women in the scene. It's not the worst superhero objectification I've seen, but it could be better. It's the kind of story that would work for Butch Guice or Michael Lark, now that I think about it.
Eh. There are a lot of pieces that could have come together to make a powerful story, but they don't. It feels too short. It probably would have worked better with more length and more devotion to character interaction (and less to establishing background for the plot).
Artwork is fine as long as there aren't women in the scene. It's not the worst superhero objectification I've seen, but it could be better. It's the kind of story that would work for Butch Guice or Michael Lark, now that I think about it.
Parts of this are great. Other parts feel like they were skimmed over. There are some issues raised that felt like they deserved to be given greater depth instead of a few panels or lines as though there were an aside to the story rather than a serious points. Basically, individual parts of this are well done, but it somehow never meshes all together.