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A review by otherwyrld
Ultimate Comics Avengers, Vol. 3: Blade vs. The Avengers by Steve Dillon, Mark Millar
3.0
This should have been a mega-epic story. Blade fighting with the Ultimate Avengers! Captain America and Nerd Hulk turned into Vampires! A vampire army attacking the Triskelion! Teleporting the entire Triskelion into the Iranian desert!
The story was entertaining enough, yet somehow it just failed to engage. For want of a better word it lacked bite (sorry, bad pun).
I usually love Steve Dillon's artwork but this wasn't his best work either. At times some of the fight scenes were lacking in dynamism and facial expressions were at little off. Even some of the anatomy was a little dodgy at times. However, the colouring was nice and at least the story panels were easy to follow on the page (not every artist can do this and Dillon is a good example of an artist who can produce tight, crisp story panels, which he learned working on the shorter page counts in 2000AD).
So, enjoyable but could have been so much better
The story was entertaining enough, yet somehow it just failed to engage. For want of a better word it lacked bite (sorry, bad pun).
I usually love Steve Dillon's artwork but this wasn't his best work either. At times some of the fight scenes were lacking in dynamism and facial expressions were at little off. Even some of the anatomy was a little dodgy at times. However, the colouring was nice and at least the story panels were easy to follow on the page (not every artist can do this and Dillon is a good example of an artist who can produce tight, crisp story panels, which he learned working on the shorter page counts in 2000AD).
So, enjoyable but could have been so much better