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surfmonkey01's review
3.0
Now we have a bit of a team going on. The fun factor is down a notch, as the main storyline is well underway now. This is definitely a series with a set ending, whenever that may be (I’m guessing around issue 25)
wesleyboy's review
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.
trike's review
3.0
And now we’re tangling with a dragon from Asgard on top of a time-traveling world-conquering god-slaying sorcerer, our time-displaced Conan the Barbarian teaming up with Magik and Wolverine from the X-Men, Dr. Strange, the Black Knight, Juggernaut, Punisher, Elektra, Black Widow and Daimon Hellstrom.
I don’t know if you could create a more diverse crew of ass-kickers. Maybe a robot. (If Ultron or Jocasta show up in the next volume, I won’t be a bit surprised. C’mon H.E.R.B.I.E.!)
The art this time around is fine but it’s not as brutal as in the previous two volumes. But we are treated to plenty of ultraviolence, as befits this savage group.
I don’t know if you could create a more diverse crew of ass-kickers. Maybe a robot. (If Ultron or Jocasta show up in the next volume, I won’t be a bit surprised. C’mon H.E.R.B.I.E.!)
The art this time around is fine but it’s not as brutal as in the previous two volumes. But we are treated to plenty of ultraviolence, as befits this savage group.
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