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One thing I tend not to enjoy in serialized comics is when they take an interesting science fiction premise and fail to fulfill it. This volume begins with the intriguing premise that the Vision's perfect memory is leading him to have flashbacks that prevent him from doing his job (i.e. saving lives). His analysis concludes that the fault lies in his emotions, so he deletes them. Maybe it is because I have recently been watching a lot of Star Trek: The Next Generation, but it seemed like there was a lot of potential here to explore how and why artificial emotions might cause a problem and how different that might make Vision act - but really the problem lay in someone else manipulating him, rather than any reflection on how emotions work whatsoever. Missed opportunity.
It's not just the science fictional premises that fall somewhat flat in this volume. The "All-New, All-Different" Avengers look like there should be a kind of mentoring process between the adult, long-running heroes and the teenagers that they bring into the fold. Besides "try not to kill people", though, these adults don't seem to have a lot to say to the kids - indeed, Captain America/Sam Wilson's responses seem largely to be "shout at them, even when they've done something right". I don't really understand what the point of recruiting teenagers to your Avengers team was supposed to be if you weren't going to help them get better. But then again, I'm not entirely certain of the reason for bringing these particular characters together. When a bunch of characters with independent powers come together to fight like this, they really ought to be using those powers in their battles to do different things. But in most of the fight scenes, people just hang around. To be honest, it is unclear why half of them show up in the first place, especially Thor. It just seems like they brought together a slightly diverse team and said "do with that what you will."
Which brings me on to another thing that I tend to dislike in serialized comics: the radically different personalities that characters can have when they are written by different people (except for straight, white, teenage boys, all of whom seem to have exactly the same personality anyway). While again, much of my familiarity with these characters comes from the MCU, I have read some Ms Marvel and Thor. Now, I did like some of what happened with Thor, although with reservations. I thought the speculation about who she was worked; and the later aspects of her relationship with Sam develop pretty well, but the initial kiss is out of the blue and uninvited (always bad, guys) and she is a lot less subtle about her identity than she is in her own comics. Conversely, the attempted sexual tension between Nova and Ms Marvel fell completely flat, because Nova is kinda rubbish and Kamala is brilliant. At least, in her own comics. Here, her fandom seems like the butt of a joke and the writers just don't seem to have grasped what makes her work (I'm certain that her fanfic is better than the crap Waid has her write - Wolverine and Storm fighting a giant alien worm-hole farting blob IN SPACE, guys!). Then there's the fact that the main thing I have to say about they way these characters interact is about inappropriate sexual behaviour; which perhaps brings us back to the lack of mentorship on display.
There is some good stuff here, particularly in the #6 battle (and Ms Marvel shouting "Avengers Assemble!" in what I think was the free comic book day issue); but overall it's just a bunch of disparate characters thrown together for spurious reasons and without much to carry them through.
It's not just the science fictional premises that fall somewhat flat in this volume. The "All-New, All-Different" Avengers look like there should be a kind of mentoring process between the adult, long-running heroes and the teenagers that they bring into the fold. Besides "try not to kill people", though, these adults don't seem to have a lot to say to the kids - indeed, Captain America/Sam Wilson's responses seem largely to be "shout at them, even when they've done something right". I don't really understand what the point of recruiting teenagers to your Avengers team was supposed to be if you weren't going to help them get better. But then again, I'm not entirely certain of the reason for bringing these particular characters together. When a bunch of characters with independent powers come together to fight like this, they really ought to be using those powers in their battles to do different things. But in most of the fight scenes, people just hang around. To be honest, it is unclear why half of them show up in the first place, especially Thor. It just seems like they brought together a slightly diverse team and said "do with that what you will."
Which brings me on to another thing that I tend to dislike in serialized comics: the radically different personalities that characters can have when they are written by different people (except for straight, white, teenage boys, all of whom seem to have exactly the same personality anyway). While again, much of my familiarity with these characters comes from the MCU, I have read some Ms Marvel and Thor. Now, I did like some of what happened with Thor, although with reservations. I thought the speculation about who she was worked; and the later aspects of her relationship with Sam develop pretty well, but the initial kiss is out of the blue and uninvited (always bad, guys) and she is a lot less subtle about her identity than she is in her own comics. Conversely, the attempted sexual tension between Nova and Ms Marvel fell completely flat, because Nova is kinda rubbish and Kamala is brilliant. At least, in her own comics. Here, her fandom seems like the butt of a joke and the writers just don't seem to have grasped what makes her work (I'm certain that her fanfic is better than the crap Waid has her write - Wolverine and Storm fighting a giant alien worm-hole farting blob IN SPACE, guys!). Then there's the fact that the main thing I have to say about they way these characters interact is about inappropriate sexual behaviour; which perhaps brings us back to the lack of mentorship on display.
There is some good stuff here, particularly in the #6 battle (and Ms Marvel shouting "Avengers Assemble!" in what I think was the free comic book day issue); but overall it's just a bunch of disparate characters thrown together for spurious reasons and without much to carry them through.