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brandonadaniels's review
3.0
This trade is more of a mixed bag than the first two volumes. The first half wraps up the ongoing story, and the second half, a fun little story about Valerie and Doom recruiting a ragtag group of Avengers, ties into the now forgotten Axis event. Checcetto continues to do most of the art, but the fill in issues by Ienco are a pretty major downgrade.
crookedtreehouse's review
2.0
Hickman's main title of Avengers is filled with entirely too many characters to keep track of, and yet, I believe Hickman has a diagram and knows what each character is doing and why they're doing it.
This book is a mess. I don't even think Spencer could name half the characters he's jammed into this. Euroforce? The Next Avengers? Bringing Young Avengers characters back from the dead?
Yea, I know of most of these characters, but I don't know why Spencer thought it was a good idea to rope them all into this mess. Every one of the major plots Spencer introduced in volume one is sort of resolved in this collection but in an incredibnly unsatisfying way, and then the last two issues are a completely new unnecessary story where Valeria Richards is creating yet another another another another team od Avengers.
I guess I recommend this to fans of Euroforce, Next Avengers, and readers who like superhero books where they assemble a team that you are Never Going To See Again.
This book is a mess. I don't even think Spencer could name half the characters he's jammed into this. Euroforce? The Next Avengers? Bringing Young Avengers characters back from the dead?
Yea, I know of most of these characters, but I don't know why Spencer thought it was a good idea to rope them all into this mess. Every one of the major plots Spencer introduced in volume one is sort of resolved in this collection but in an incredibnly unsatisfying way, and then the last two issues are a completely new unnecessary story where Valeria Richards is creating yet another another another another team od Avengers.
I guess I recommend this to fans of Euroforce, Next Avengers, and readers who like superhero books where they assemble a team that you are Never Going To See Again.
mjfmjfmjf's review
3.0
Ugh. Too many story-lines. Too many characters. Not enough writing. Lot's of potential given focus but just more of the same but focused wouldn't necessarily be better. The Axis story was okay-ish but Valeria Richards was the lead so not as surprising. All in all not bad, but not all that good. Whatever. But what a laundry-list. Zombies. Dragons. Time Travelers. Good turning evil and the evil good. And at least one character comes back from the dead. But not at all compelling.
standardman's review
3.0
This is the 'what happened in that time jump' book and the answer seems to be 'a bunch of stuff of no relevance that is entertaining enough, I guess'.
lukeisthename34's review
3.0
So happy to see the first arc end (just so much crazy nonsense going on) but really enjoyed the second arc with the replacement team utilizing some characters we haven't seen in a while.
squidbag's review
4.0
Final major arc of this was profoundly satisfying if over a bit quickly. One of the big reasons I read comics is to reinforce ideas about heroism, and the conflict and dialogue (and narration, to a lesser extent) at the end of this primary story do exactly that. The back up beginning arc, with the "Doomvengers" or whatever is okay, but it's only the first part of a thing, not a whole story yet. As a penultimate chapter for the 616 proper (which is what I assume this is) this is a really good one - all three of these collections, I think, need to be read as I read them, back-to-back-to-back.
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