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Avengers Assemble, Vol. 1 by Kurt Busiek

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This is a solid beginning to Kurt Busiek's Avengers run. He starts with a story featuring every Avenger and then in Issue 4 it's whittled down to a core team. The book focuses on core original Avengers in this first volume with a few notable exceptions.

Busiek has a great feel for who these characters are and that helps produce some good moments, as we deal with the mystery of what happened to Wonder Man who is apparently returning from the dead. The plots are a lot of action and adventure, but with a sense of fun.

My biggest complaint about the book may tie into one of the best issues. Issue 7 in the end of the Live Kree or Die Arc and the court martial of Carol Danvers by the Avengers. The book didn't contain the other issues, but the court martial itself is a great piece of character work in an action-filled book.

Overall, this is a book that makes a nice start to Busiek's run and makes me curious to find out what's next for Earth's mightiest heroes.



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