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A review by wesleyboy
Savage Avengers, Vol. 3: Enter the Dragon by Gerry Duggan
5.0
Other reviewers have mentioned that previous volumes aren’t really Avengers books so much as Conan in the Marvel Universe books. It’s fair, and in fact if it weren’t for the MCU driving all characters and naming in the comics, this probably wouldn’t even have “Avengers” in the title.
Leaving aside the quibbling over the title, goddam this was a fun read. Find me another Marvel title where there’s cannibalism, coke laced with an Elder God, or one of the main characters waking up in a pile of hookers and beating a monster to death with an artificial leg?
I love this precisely because it could only exist as a comic. You’ll never see it get developed as a show or movie, so it gets to explore its weirdness and insanity in the pages of a comic. Which is what got me into comics in the first place, stories I couldn’t (or didn’t) see anywhere else.
Leaving aside the quibbling over the title, goddam this was a fun read. Find me another Marvel title where there’s cannibalism, coke laced with an Elder God, or one of the main characters waking up in a pile of hookers and beating a monster to death with an artificial leg?
I love this precisely because it could only exist as a comic. You’ll never see it get developed as a show or movie, so it gets to explore its weirdness and insanity in the pages of a comic. Which is what got me into comics in the first place, stories I couldn’t (or didn’t) see anywhere else.