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A review by unladylike
Avengers Assemble, Volume 1 by Mark Waid, Joe Edkin, John Ostrander, Kurt Busiek
1.0
I just told Goodreads that I finished this book on February 30. That's because I will likely never finish this run of Avengers comics unless I'm sucked into some parallel dimension or time travel is involved and I'm stuck in the late '90s.
Something about Busiek's declared love for continuity and the infinitely expansive, interconnected titles in either of the big two's universes that just turned me off. Or never drew me in to begin with. More recent Avengers Assemble books by Brian Michael Bendis and Kelly Sue DeConnick I've LOVED, and they grabbed me within the first few pages and let me know why they'd be good and get better.
Or maybe it's something about the decade from which this run came. I'm learning more and more that Great '90s Comics could have a LOT wrong with them and still be comparatively greater than most of what was published in that decade.
Anyway, I tried reading both this and the following massive volume that collects all of Kurt Busiek's run on the Avengers because it was the first assignment for an online Marvel comics reading discussion group, and it was supposedly a "fan favorite," which I'm also learning sometimes means "only good if you've obsessively consumed years of garbage with the same branding."
Something about Busiek's declared love for continuity and the infinitely expansive, interconnected titles in either of the big two's universes that just turned me off. Or never drew me in to begin with. More recent Avengers Assemble books by Brian Michael Bendis and Kelly Sue DeConnick I've LOVED, and they grabbed me within the first few pages and let me know why they'd be good and get better.
Or maybe it's something about the decade from which this run came. I'm learning more and more that Great '90s Comics could have a LOT wrong with them and still be comparatively greater than most of what was published in that decade.
Anyway, I tried reading both this and the following massive volume that collects all of Kurt Busiek's run on the Avengers because it was the first assignment for an online Marvel comics reading discussion group, and it was supposedly a "fan favorite," which I'm also learning sometimes means "only good if you've obsessively consumed years of garbage with the same branding."