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The powerhouse team of Brian Michael Bendis and David Finch take on Earth’s Mightest Heroes! It begins with the return of a team member thought dead – and by the time it’s over, everything you know about the Avengers will have changed! The event that rocked the entirety of the Marvel Universe and set the stage for New Avengers is presented here for the first time as a deluxe, oversize hardcover with all-new extras! Collects Avengers #500-503 and Avengers Finale…. More >>
Avengers Disassembled
the avengers are just another in a series of victims of so called
“genius” writer/creators. if marvel serves up any more of this drivel it won’t have any of its fan base left. its simple:
heroes= goodguys, they win and live. villains= bad guys, they lose and die. got it marvel?! avoid this crap! Rating: 1 / 5
Chuck austens work means this is not the worst, the austen trades are, but this is close enough to those, the book is just a lot of random actions happening, aliens attack, villains attack, avengers die at random, all of this keep building till the endwhere we find out..a wizard did it all, yep that’s pretty much it, lots of random death, one avenger gets his weapon caught on fire so he flies off on a suicide mission, another comes back from the dead just to blow up and kill another guy.
then you have bendis ignoring avengers history, spider-man makes bad jokes insulting people who just died, Quasar can set foot on earth even though it means the death of the earth, wanda didn’t know about ehr children..even though she already found out, this story is just littered with such things, if your a comic fan it will drive you nuts, these are not minor issues.
marvel just wanted to start over and add wolverine and spider-man to the team so they brought in bendis, told him to kill the team off in a few issues and don’t look back, so he just did whatever he wanted, ruining characters along the way.
the issues were so bad bendis had to offer a refund to people if they didn’t like it, you don’t get refunds in comics, it’s been done like one other time ever, that’s how bad fan reaction was, even the austen issues didn’t get such an offer.
with the many better avenger trades out there, why settle for this? Rating: 1 / 5
i read the house of m and thought it was pretty bad, so while bored i decided to try avengers disassembled. unfortunately it was not very good either. i just didn’t like anything about this book at all. Rating: 1 / 5
I’ve heard a rumor that Bendis is an excellent comics writer and read a few things that support that assertion. The Disassembled story-line in the Avengers, however, is not one of them. Instead of the tightly plotted, yet-still character-driven, story-lines of writers like Kurt Busiek, Roy Thomas and Geoff Johns, we get misanthropic griping and pointless death & mayhem for the sake of death & mayhem.
I’d like to summarize what happens in the story, but frankly there really isn’t much of a story. The best I can manage (without being really disparaging) is that a long-time member of the team goes way off-balance and causes a series of events that lead to the sudden loss of several team members.
I’m sure these events were meant to be make the reader feel a sense of tragedy. The fact is, though, that they all happen so suddenly and without any real build-up that they seem tossed off and pointless.
Some might say that the Avengers needed to be shaken up, which is flat-out untrue. Even if it was true, it’s simply not relevant. Kurt Busiek revived the team several years back without needlessly trashing things. More to the point, he finessed the established continuity in a way that allowed the Avengers’ long history make as much sense as it has at any time since the team’s early years. None of that for Bendis, though, for him it was apparently shoot first and don’t bother asking questions. Well, the people who grew up reading the Avengers and new readers alike deserve far better.
Addendum (4/4/08): I can see from the people rating my review that the Cult of Bendis is alive and well. Suffice it to say that I’d be willing to bet that people who rated my review helpful as of this writing are the ones who actually read and thought about what I have to say. The others I would guess are the ones who can’t abide the suggestion that Bendis is capable of this kind of hack-work. Let me just finish by saying that, this storyline at least made me appreciate Bendis’ writing on Mighty Avengers” all the more. Rating: 1 / 5
Terribly disappointed with this title. It destroys the spirit of the Avengers and makes them behave out of character. Only the subsequent death of Steve Rogers is worse than that.
I appreciate Bendis’ work on Daredevil and Ultimate Spider-Man, but perhaps he’s more at ease with single heroes as opposed to teams. New Avengers is another demonstration of that.
1 star for the good drawings. Rating: 1 / 5