I spend a lot of time and money buying and reading comics. Most of the time I'm happy with my choices, sometimes not. I'm hoping,that with my reviews on what I've read, I might spare someone else dissapointment. I'll read anything, but I can't afford everything. If there's something you'd like for me to read, let me know. If you take the time to read this, please, take the time to let me know what you think. I may not agree with you, or you may not agree with me. But, so what. That's life.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Giant Sized Avengers #1 - Marvel
This was an interesting book. But, I have to admit, I wasn't really overly thrilled about it. It was just . . . . ok. It's set up in a third person type of story-frame. Basically, the title tells it all, "Gossip Girls". Jan, Carol and Wanda have just completed a mission and have come back to Stark Towers to . . . . well . . . clean up after the mess. To unwind they start telling each other stories. Like I said, it was interesting, but . . . it was also kind of dull. The whole thing was framed together by C B Cebulski and Jim Cheung. Now I do have to admit that I did like Jim's art. Especially with the three women. Meoww! Anyways, they then go off in to there stories. The first is about Jarvis. He's submitting an article to a magazine about Butlering . . is that a word? . . and he has to do it in a way that doesn't divulge any of his charges secrets. He does it pretty well, by writing a story about parties in the manor. Not so much what happens, but how to clean up afterwards. The next is kind of a stupid story about how Thor, Iron-man, Cap and Gyrich ended up in the other dimension and the aliens there took something Gyrich said to be a kind of gospel. Kind of a strange one. Next is a story about a magician . . I guess . . who's travelled across various realities and dimensions, and has fought and beaten the Avengers in every one. However, when he comes here, the Avengers he finds are Luke Cage, Spider-man and Wolverine. Not at all what he was expecting. Which of course leads to his demise, because he wasn't prepared. And finally, they talk about how Spider-man was brought in to the fold, and why his particular personality is good for the over-all team. Like I said . . . interesting . . . but boring. And we round out this book with 2 reprints from Avengers #58 and #201. That's really about all I can say about it, without sounding like I'm just repeating myself. If you're a hard-core Avengers fan . . you should probably get it. If not . . . definitely skip it. But that's just my opinion.
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