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3.0 out of 5 stars
Avengers---Dysfunctional!,
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This review is from: Essential Avengers - Volume 2 (Paperback)
Reprinting Avengers 25-46 and King Size Special #1, "Essential Avengers vol. 2" is something of a mixed bag. Stan Lee hands over the reins to Roy Thomas at approximately the midway point in the collection, which is a slight improvement as Thomas injects some fresh blood into a project which clearly held Lee's interest only flaggingly at the end. Don Heck's art looks uniformly execrable throughout, so John Buscema coming on board for the last third or so is a very welcome change indeed.The scripts themselves are uneven. While the initial bickering amongst the team is fairly interesting (if only to hear Captain America, a product of the 40s, exchanging barbs with Hawkeye in perfect 60s tough-guy patois), the team soon begins to emit affirmations of hero-worship to each other like a couple of natural-born bootlickers at a Promise Keepers rally ("You're the man!" "No, you're the man!" <hug>) The initial promise of Goliath's being trapped at the freakish height of 10 feet tall is squandered within a few issues, Hercules joins the team in an apparent attempt to bring Stan Lee's lofty dialogue back, the Wasp is her usual irrelevant self, and Captain America, the born leader, fails miserably to control the team and needs Goliath to straighten it out. The issues do build some momentum, and classic battles with the Super-Adaptoid and the Whizzer rekindle the old magic of the Avengers. Even with all the aforementioned flaws, this collection of the Avengers still beats most of the stuff on the newsstand and in the comics shops today.
1.0 out of 5 stars
The quintessence of hackwork,
By A Customer
This review is from: Essential Avengers - Volume 2 (Paperback)
It's pretty clear that Stan Lee had no real love for this series and was just grinding it out. None of the characters are sharply drawn, except Hercules. The villains are usually recycled, their villainous plots rarely interesting, and way the stories are finally resolved almost never make sense. Most of the dialogue, in fact, is designed to try to explain the implausibility of the images we're looking at. Good God, how many times does some bad guy observe Captain America at work and cry out, "His speed is unbelievable" or "His shield is uncanny - it's like a part of him"? It's a pathetic attempt to justify the fact that Cap, who is just an acrobat and hand-to-hand fighter, is allowed to prevail over giant robots, or laser canons, or dozens of men with machine guns, or whatever happens to be that issue's menace. Cap was always to weak to be a member of this team, so Lee tried to make up for it by making the more powerful characters heap praise on him. It doesn't work and it's annoying. Lee and Heck really should have tried to come up with foes who were more appropriate opponents for the team. They never could decide what to do with Hank Pym either, so every few issues his powers keep changing. Every time they change, he delivers some wooden speech explaining exactly what he can and can't do. It's like reading the description of a character in a role playing game.
3.0 out of 5 stars
It's bad at worst, above average at best, mediocre overall.,
By Brian Kim (Cerritos, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Essential Avengers - Volume 2 (Paperback)
This 'Essential' really doesn't have any exciting material, really. It's all just pointless, meandering filler. The characterization is nonexistent and the plots are very run of the mill. It's only worth seeing and reading as a sort of time capsule. It's not very good, but it's one example of how comics were like in the sixties.
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