Echo of a Breakup
Yes, I continue my quest or performance target of getting up to date on Panini's Avengers Unconquered title. Here's a review of No. 16:
New Avengers: The Breakup
The breakup in the title would appear to be that of Luke Cage and Jessica Jones, as the latter switches sides (New/Secret Avengers to Mighty Avengers, an Offical Team under the New Marvel Universe Legislation) in order that she might protect her baby. Most of this issue is a couple of conversations between Jessica and Luke; very interesting and well-handled in that while Luke comes across as being a complete prawn one can see his point. I can see this relationship ending, I’m afraid.
The New or Secret Avengers also get a new headquarters thish, courtesy of the extensive business interests of Daniel ‘Iron Fist’ Rand. This sequence delivers the line of the issue when Danny tries explaining who The Leader is and has to finally resort to ‘Big green head. Used to fight the Hulk’ before his team-mates twig.
The art is… you know, I don’t think it’d be fair to comment. I am missing Leinil Yu and whoever replaced him would be at an unfair disadvantage when being assessed by my good self.
Text feature: Echo (Maya Lopez)
Very good to know who this character who’s been popping up in these stories for a few issues now actually is, particularly given that it’s immediately followed by
New Avengers: Echo
This story is like an Echo sandwich: she has a conversation at both ends of it as the bread and a fight in the middle as the ham, holding out against a Skrull for quite a respectable amount of time before Wolverine chases it off. Clint Barton also appears, but we see nothing of the other members of the team; as I think I’ve said elsewhere, I am glad I’m not an American, having to pick up these episodes one at a time and having to go for a couple of months without certain characters or with very minimal development in some plotlines. Quite a lot is packed in by Bendis in comparison with some episodes he’s written. The art again is not up to Yu’s standard, but the same applies as to ‘The Breakup’ in that regard. Oddly, it seems to slip in the last segment (the Maya/Clint scene). I’m impressed by the cover.
Mighty Avengers: The Awakening
Sorry. Did I write ‘Mighty Avengers’ up there? This is a 22-page Nick Fury story with Spider-Woman from the Mighty Avengers making a three-page appearance. It also features heavily photo-referenced art (as does ‘The Breakup’). At any rate, Nick Fury has discovered that there are Skrulls among us and tells Spider-Woman, who gives no indication that she knows this already - I guess that this story happens before the Elektra Skrull dies, and is why Spider-Woman is not as surprised as the other New Avengers and takes it more seriously when that happens. As is the case with ‘Echo,’ I liked this though not as much) but wonder if I would have the same view if I was reading it as a on-off rather than in an anthology issue.
New Avengers: The Breakup
The breakup in the title would appear to be that of Luke Cage and Jessica Jones, as the latter switches sides (New/Secret Avengers to Mighty Avengers, an Offical Team under the New Marvel Universe Legislation) in order that she might protect her baby. Most of this issue is a couple of conversations between Jessica and Luke; very interesting and well-handled in that while Luke comes across as being a complete prawn one can see his point. I can see this relationship ending, I’m afraid.
The New or Secret Avengers also get a new headquarters thish, courtesy of the extensive business interests of Daniel ‘Iron Fist’ Rand. This sequence delivers the line of the issue when Danny tries explaining who The Leader is and has to finally resort to ‘Big green head. Used to fight the Hulk’ before his team-mates twig.
The art is… you know, I don’t think it’d be fair to comment. I am missing Leinil Yu and whoever replaced him would be at an unfair disadvantage when being assessed by my good self.
Text feature: Echo (Maya Lopez)
Very good to know who this character who’s been popping up in these stories for a few issues now actually is, particularly given that it’s immediately followed by
New Avengers: Echo
This story is like an Echo sandwich: she has a conversation at both ends of it as the bread and a fight in the middle as the ham, holding out against a Skrull for quite a respectable amount of time before Wolverine chases it off. Clint Barton also appears, but we see nothing of the other members of the team; as I think I’ve said elsewhere, I am glad I’m not an American, having to pick up these episodes one at a time and having to go for a couple of months without certain characters or with very minimal development in some plotlines. Quite a lot is packed in by Bendis in comparison with some episodes he’s written. The art again is not up to Yu’s standard, but the same applies as to ‘The Breakup’ in that regard. Oddly, it seems to slip in the last segment (the Maya/Clint scene). I’m impressed by the cover.
Mighty Avengers: The Awakening
Sorry. Did I write ‘Mighty Avengers’ up there? This is a 22-page Nick Fury story with Spider-Woman from the Mighty Avengers making a three-page appearance. It also features heavily photo-referenced art (as does ‘The Breakup’). At any rate, Nick Fury has discovered that there are Skrulls among us and tells Spider-Woman, who gives no indication that she knows this already - I guess that this story happens before the Elektra Skrull dies, and is why Spider-Woman is not as surprised as the other New Avengers and takes it more seriously when that happens. As is the case with ‘Echo,’ I liked this though not as much) but wonder if I would have the same view if I was reading it as a on-off rather than in an anthology issue.