Considering the Marvel NOW! entries haven't really dazzled me, I never have too high of hopes for any of these now upon picking them up. New Avengers is based on an older volume of a previous New Avengers comic it seems, called The New Avengers: Illuminati. I had picked the previous volume up a mon...
The "Illuminati" presented in this volume is new to me, though apparently it's been a thing in the Marve Universe for a while — representative from several superhero teams/groups meet in secret to try to "manage" the truly world-threatening crises, unknown even to their own friends and family and te...
The right kind of Dark for comics. Big, gigantic, world-ending darkness; morally gray "heroes" making tough decisions that can impact millions. It isn't the "throw in lots of blood and rape and cussing!" that usually gets passed off as Dark and Adult comics, it's about looking straight at unsettling...