Avengers #1 Review
Avengers Assemble Original Review by Johnkmccubbin91 at Comic Vine
The newest
Avengers series has finally come out and I was interested to see what a new writer would do with the series. I have never been the biggest fan of Jonathan Hickman's work but have always thought of him as a good writer. He did some amazing things during his time on
Fantastic Four and although I only liked some of it, the things I did like were brilliant. I also enjoyed what I read of his The Manhattan Projects series for Image and was sad to have to drop the series after 5 issues due to having to lower my comic budget.
Plot
This issues introduces the Avengers and a new foe called Ex Nihilo. The issues shows how Ex Nihilo wants to evolve Earth into a new era and how he plans on using the Avengers to do that. This issue has the Avengers line up from the current
The Avengers film featuring,
Captain America,
Iron Man,
Thor,
Hulk,
Hawkeye, and
Black Widow.
Review
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This was a brilliant start to what I hope will be an amazing Avengers series. Although Brian Michael Bendis did a terrific job on his huge Avengers run which started from Avengers Disassembled, and through the multiple Avengers titles that have came since, including The New Avengers, The Mighty Avengers, and
Dark Avengers. A change in writer has however been needed as his previous Avengers series' where starting to lose the quality they used to have. Hickman has brought something new to the Avengers and sparked new life into the team. I don't however know if I like him bringing his sci-fi type of stories he did in Fantastic Four to Avengers. Although this style of writing isn't new to Avengers I'm not sure if it's what it needs just now. There are reasons I like this style and reasons I don't. I like how the Avengers are up against something new but at the same time I don't like how it resembles Hickman's work on Fantastic Four. Even the page at the start listing the Avenger members was similar to the list of the
Future Foundation members in FF. I am however looking forward to seeing where Hickman's taking this series and hope it becomes a great series.
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Review
So we got Hickman on the writing and Opeña penciling... Needless to say, I had high expectations for this comic. Thankfully, they were fulfilled. The plot can be a little bit confusing at first, but as the story progresses, you'll easily understand. No doubt at all, the book was influenced by the Avengers movie, and, to be honest, I thought that was a really bad thing at first, but once I finished the comic I wanted the team to be the one shown in the high grossing movie. The thing is, the issue was so much fun with Cap, Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Hawkeye and Widow that in the end, I didn't want
Spider-Man or
Ms. Marvel to appear further on in the series.
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What I Thought
Cover - 4/5
Art - 4/5
Colors/Ink/Lettering - 4/5
Layout/Flow - 4/5
Story - 5/5
Verdict - 4.4
I was interested to see where they were going to take this series during the
Marvel NOW! reboot, and so far I like it. Like most #1 issues this one had it's share of covers and most are pretty good, the normal cover combines with issues 2 & 3 to form a larger picture. I did find a few scenes where the art didn't work, for example Hulk running toward us in one panel, but otherwise it was a good fit. I was curious how they were going to bring in the new characters and if they were just going to be another team, but this issue provides a proper explanation of why the new Avengers are being recruited. I can't wait to read the next issue, especially since I'm unfamiliar with some of the new members.
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