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A review by jcovey
Avengers: Everybody Wants to Rule the World: A Novel of the Marvel Universe by Dan Abnett
4.0
Dan Abnett is one of my favorite writers. I don't think I've read a book of his I didn't enjoy tremendously. From his voluminous work in 40k to his exceptional run of Marvel Cosmic (if you enjoy Guardians of the Galaxy he is the man to thank) he's written some of my all time favorite yarns and so when I saw he'd written a silly little Avengers novel I just had to give it a spin and it did not disappoint.
This book is a short, breezy thing told almost entirely through action sequences and it's everything you'd want given what it is. We go all over the globe as Cap punches Nazis, Iron Man goes up against Ultron, Banner squares off intellectually against the High Evolutionary, Thor fights demons, and Hawkeye and Black Widow have to survive .. dinosaurs?
All the while it teases a main mystery most delightfully. And if the conclusion is ultimately a little unsatisfactory and leaves you feeling slightly guilty having spent several hours on what amounts to non-stop punching as the ultimate problem solver, well, that's comic books for ya.
This book is a short, breezy thing told almost entirely through action sequences and it's everything you'd want given what it is. We go all over the globe as Cap punches Nazis, Iron Man goes up against Ultron, Banner squares off intellectually against the High Evolutionary, Thor fights demons, and Hawkeye and Black Widow have to survive .. dinosaurs?
All the while it teases a main mystery most delightfully. And if the conclusion is ultimately a little unsatisfactory and leaves you feeling slightly guilty having spent several hours on what amounts to non-stop punching as the ultimate problem solver, well, that's comic books for ya.