ComicNerd Review: New Avengers #42
07 Jul
Posted by Clayton520 as Brian Michael Bendis, Jim Cheung, Marvel Comics, New Avengers, Ramblings, Secret Invasion
Storyline: The Empire part 3
Date: July 25, 2008
Price: $2.99
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Artists: Jim Cheung
Synopsis: For 42 issues readers of New Avengers have wondered, who caused the breakout in New Avengers #1 and why? And how was this the real start of the SECRET INVASION? Find out right here!
Opinion: Well here we go again loyal readers and fellow comic nerds. It doesn’t appear that my lambasting of the issue 41 had much affect on Mr. Bendis, as he seemed fit to go ahead and give us the same thing he did last time.
Read the full review after the jump.
Whereas issue 41 went back and expounded upon issues 6-7 of New Avengers, issue 42 goes all the way back to issue 1. Issue 1?! It that really necessary? Couldn’t he have just thrown in a couple of quick anecdotes to quell those readers who have been devoured every issue these past 3 ½ years? It appears that no, he can’t.
What he have is an entire issue devoured to a select few, answering their question sand making them go “Ahhh” while the rest of us either have to pick up some trade paperbacks or just quit buying New Avengers until all this skrull mess is over with.
It’s not like this is a bad issue when put into context with #1 and the forming of New Avengers. After I brushed up on the history of the team I was ready to dive right in. But I believe that is a tremendous hindrance to the story.
If it is necessary for a fan to have to have very precise knowledge about a particular story arch so many years ago that he can’t understand the story, then why should he continue to lay down his hard earned 3/4ths of a gallon of gas? The requirement of encyclopedic knowledge of comic books keeps many a new reader from joining our ranks and let’s face it folks, our ranks ain’t what they used to be.
Maybe I am being too harsh. We do learn about a New Avenger who has been a skrull since the get go, and we see how the skrulls have been manipulating events in the Marvel Universe for a very long time. All this is cool and all but it seems rather, unnecessary. Instead of focusing on the past can we please turn our attention to the present? An armada of alien invaders has hit the planet with everything they’ve got. Wouldn’t focusing on this make for a better, more exciting read? Wouldn’t it?
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7 Responses
redhollywood
July 7th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
1New Avengers has really started to suffer since SI started. Hopefully it will return to its former glory.
clayton520
July 8th, 2008 at 6:22 am
2Yeah it has man. The first couple of tie-ins has been really good, but these last two have just been… awful.
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July 8th, 2008 at 10:35 am
3[...] ComicNerd Review: New Avengers #42 [...]
michael
July 8th, 2008 at 10:46 am
4I was amped with New Avengers until Civil War, which was almost immediately. Since then it’s been one semi-interesting story after another. I love the book, I love the team, but my interest is beginning to wane for the same reasons i’ve never been a “big team book” reader, it’s confusing. As for this particular issue? As someone who has been on this particular ride since it left the station, I felt that little bit of “ahhh” that you talked about, I enjoyed knowing some of what was going on, but I have to wonder if it hasn’t been planned this way by a cigar chewing gentleman with one eye from the very beginning.
Also, Marvel is doing what they do every summer since I can remember, selling as many books as thay can by forcing readers to read titles they normally wouldn’t to get the whole story. I’ve hated it since I was 10, I hate it more now.
Stephanie
July 8th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
5I don’t think you’re being too harsh: You have a point, Clayton. It’s the same way with Batman “RIP”—how the hell are we supposed to know all this crap? It’s just too hard on the reader. We shouldn’t have to go back and look everything up.
redhollywood
July 9th, 2008 at 7:58 am
6it is marvel and DC’s way to SELL SELL SELL!!!!
michael
July 9th, 2008 at 11:28 am
7I think I alluded to this in a different comment, but I was hoping Marvel would pull some more back story stuff with this crossover. I was hoping it would go further back, you know, kinda like Secret War was supposed to. Kinda like Civil War was supposed to. Kinda like House of M was… Oh wait, it kinda did.
Marvel loves to say, “this story will change the world”. No, wait, scratch that, comic companies love to say that. It’s rarely true. My point is this writers, editors, artists, and the like of Marvel and DC, you don’t need to change the world, simply write a good story.
I love Marvel, I love DC(well, Vertigo), I love Dark Horse, I even love Dynamite Entertainment! But come on, you will get all of the money I can spare for stories I want to read, but I will not give you one extra red cent for bits of pieces of a story that you think you need to use every book in your pantheon to tell.
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