Comics are $5 now, so it stands to reason that we have to be picky about what we read these days. This week, two brand new #1's stood out for me enough to have a look-see. So what I got myself into? Read on!
Avengers #1 is just one (heh) of a long line of first issues that establish the team in its current iteration. It will hold no surprises for longtime readers, but for people who decided to pick this up as their first comic this fortunately brings them up to speed on what's been going on in the greater Marvel Comics universe. I haven't followed Marvel Comics events in a while, so some of the revelations here were eye-opening.
It's also got everything a good first issue needs to hook you in. There's incredible action courtesy of C.F. Villa's art and Federico Blee's eye-popping colors, where every panel is bursting with kinetic energy -- even the talking parts! Jed McKay delivers on the witty banter and superheroic storytelling as a kaiju-sized supervillain called Terminus wreaks havoc to get to a source of energy that could spell disaster for the world, the perfect kind of Avengers-level threat to showcase what each of these badass superheroes can do.
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