Avengers Volume 1: Avengers World (Marvel Now)
The greatest heroes in comics, together as one unbeatable team! The Avengers "go large," expanding their roster and sphere of influence to a global and even interplanetary level. When Captain America puts out his call, who will respond? The answers will surprise you! The Avengers' first mission...
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The greatest heroes in comics, together as one unbeatable team! The Avengers "go large," expanding their roster and sphere of influence to a global and even interplanetary level. When Captain America puts out his call, who will respond? The answers will surprise you! The Avengers' first mission takes them to Mars, but the secrets of the Garden lead right back to Earth's Savage Land! And when the Shi'ar Imperial Guard are broken on a dead moon, the Avengers travel across the galaxy to batt le an invading force. It all leads up to the secret origin of the universe itself, as Captain Universe races to decipher the code hidden in the Avengers' recent adventures! Jonathan Hickman takes Earth's Mightiest Heroes to the next level with big threats, big ideas and big idealism. These are the Avengers NOW! COLLECTING: AVENGERS 1-6
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780785166528 (0785166521)
Publish date: March 4th 2014
Publisher: Marvel
Pages no: 152
Edition language: English
Series: Avengers (Marvel NOW!) (#1)
There were some things that bothered me - like a whole bunch of storylines that felt a bit disparate, and I wanted them to tie together more quickly. Or not be left as cliffhangers for later. I felt it got a bit slow in the middle, too, and I really wanted to abandon this for the Age of Ultron W...
Well it's about time I stumbled across a Marvel NOW! title that didn't completely suck. In the Avengers, a clear and complex enough storyline presents itself on the first pages. Ex Nihilo, creator of change and good in the universe has captured the Avengers and plans to recreate everything in his vi...
Hickman's writing is always building something gigantic, but I found this portentious beginning a little harder to get into than the one in his Fantastic Four run. Maybe it's just having so many disparate characters, without close family bonds, as the reader's anchor in the early going before the pl...