Preamble It is a big world out there with many dangers. Nick Spencer and Frank Barbiere take us into the day of a life of the Avengers fighting for that big world in Avengers World: Next World as Earth’s Mightiest Heroes face three world altering events. Will our world turn into an Avengers World or […]
Avengers: Time Runs Out Volume One (Comic Files)
Preamble It is eight months in the future. And the world has changed drastically in Jonathan Hickman’s Avengers: Time Runs Out Volume One. Our world has been at risk as the global incursions of other Earth’s in the multiverse collide with ours. And the steps taken to save the Marvel 616 Earth has created a […]
Avengers World: Ascension (Comic Files)
Preamble Nick Spencer likes big stories. He is the master of the long game as shown in Secret Avengers and his creator owned Morning Glories. But then someone had to go and give him the keys to the Avengers! Situation Report Avengers World: Ascension continues to build three seemingly unconnected stories. First, an Avengers […]
Hulk: Banner DOA (Comic Files)
Preamble When last we left the Hulk, Bruce Banner had been shot…in the head…with a gun! Yeah, who knew that could even happen? Will Mark Waid finally kill off the green Avenger in Hulk: Banner DOA? Situation Report Bruce Banner has been shot in the exact place in his skull where he can be […]
Avengers A.I.: 12,000 A.D. (Comic Files)
Preamble Sam Humphries’ Avengers A.I. gave us a different kind of Avengers team, one lead by a human and composed of artificial intelligences. Avengers A.I.: 12,000 A.D. brings this short lived title to an end. But the creative crew is able to give the team one last run against their greatest artificial nemesis, which is […]
Avengers: Adapt or Die (Comic Files)
Preamble Infinity is over, so Jonathan Hickman and Salvador Larroca can let the Avengers just sit back and relax right? Nope, there are still potential global killing problems to face. And Steve Rogers and Tony Stark are reviewing if the team has the right mix. It is kind of like Avenger draft day. Oh, and […]
Avengers World: A.I.M.PIRE (Comic Files)
Preamble I really came to love Nick Spencer’s run on Secret Avengers. I loved his A.I.M. vs. S.H.I.E.L.D. storyline and it felt like a big spy movie every month. But he abandoned me for Avengers World with Jonathan Hickman as co-writer and Stefano Caselli as artist. As I sat with pen in hand reading Avengers […]
Infinity (Comic Files)
Preamble Earlier I gave Jonathan Hickman’s a three-issue ride, before I stopped reading. My main complaint was there was enough going on between issues in other connected titles that I was not reading that the story often did not make full sense. But I did provide it a second chance recently in the collected, Infinity. […]
Avengers: Prelude to Infinity (Comic Files)
Preamble Infinity is coming, Infinity is coming! Actually it came and if you follow this crossover monthly, well likely over. Infinity did not work for me in single issues. Most of that had to do with the feeling I was not getting all of the story since I was not reading all of the issues beyond the […]
The Avengers: The Last White Event (Comic Files)
Preamble With a title like The Avengers: The Last White Event, you know it has to lead to something big, or at least the last. And having read the first 3 parts of Infinity written by Jonathan Hickman who also wrote this volume, well I just knew the path was going to be laid out […]