This is a comic that is so dependent on the past continuity of the Marvel comics that preceded it that it eventually starts eating itself. At least it tries to explain all of the story to readers but that ends up reading pretty clunky.
First we have a shout out to an old Thor issue:
Then references to events that didn't even happen in past books:
You even get specific panels to look back to:
It all ends with this:
That's right, what you see is Avengers #107 reminding you of Avengers #107. At that point a geek black hole opens, sucking in everything good and pure about reading old Marvel books and you just have the memory of this jumbled mess in your head.
I actually like a lot of the Avengers stories that Englehart would write later (collected here,here and here) but these early books don't have much to offer. Englehart proved that you can do a compelling story that uses past events with something like the return of the 1950's Captain America or bringing back Hugo Strange in Detective Comics but this comic was not a high point.
In other news I review F-Stop from Oni Press there at the New Comic Book Galaxy. I didn't much like the book but, to be fair, I don't think my review is all that great either. I make some good points at the end but the analysis of Loux and Johnston could be better. Oh well, at the very least it's a warning: read this book and even your own writing will be bad! Permanent Link: 8:25 AM |
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