The Mighty Avengers: The Complete Collection

The Mighty Avengers (2007) #5-7

by Dan Slott

Collects Mighty Avengers #21-36 and material from Secret Invasion: Requiem. When darkness reigns, founding Avenger Hank Pym decides the world once again needs Earth's Mightiest Heroes! Quicksilver, USAgent, Vision, Stature, Jocasta, Hercules and Amadeus Cho answer Pym's call - but with an oddly sinister Scarlet Witch alerting the squad to new missions, and Pym's fixation on his deceased ex-wife the Wasp, drawing concern, can this fledgling group of Avengers overcome threats such as the chaotic Chthon, Norman Osborn's Cabal and the deposed Inhuman monarch known only as the Unspoken? Plus: A grudge match against the Fantastic Four! A savage showdown with the Dark Avengers! And Pym is named the universe's Scientist Supreme! But when Loki's schemes come to fruition, the Mighty Avengers face the Siege of Asgard - and Pym must survive a confrontation with his sinister cybernetic "son," Ultron!

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels, Comic Book, Superheroes, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics

424 pages, Paperback

First published August 17, 2011

About the author

Dan Slott is an American comic book writer, the current writer on Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man, and is best known for his work on books such as Arkham Asylum: Living Hell, She-Hulk, Silver Surfer, The Superior Spider-Man, and Ren & Stimpy.

Reviews

[Aaron · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the first comic I've ever read by Dan Slott, and at first I found him a little too old-school in style to get behind. Coming off of Bendis's much more grounded, modern dialogue and character work, this big, florid, very "comic-booky" team of Avengers seemed almost silly. But I gotta say, the dude writes some fun shit, and won me over pretty fast.

There are still things that bother me about some of this. The good old "character just standing around talking to himself in exposition" thing is something I've always found ridiculous about the comics that use it instead of any show-don't-tell methods, and it makes no more sense here. He also doesn't spend a ton of time developing the majority of these characters. Even after finishing this massive book I don't really know what Stature or The Vision's deals are besides the fact that they're dating and in the Young Avengers. I shouldn't have to Wikipedia characters to understand them in a totally separate series.

But, these really become minor complaints as Slott crafts these massive battles and wild premises and somehow makes them all feel natural for this team to deal with. Pym meets the entity "Eternity." The team battles the former king of the Inhumans, who can have any superpower he wants. Absorbing Man becomes a living cosmic cube for them to fight. Wrap it all up with the fact that Loki just tricked this team into coming together as a way to get an additional thorn in Norman Osborn's side, and you've got a series that deals exclusively with Big Crazy Ideas. But who cares, I loved it.

The real core of this series, though, is Hank Pym. He gets the most screentime, character development, and is usually the one who ends up figuring out how to save the day. But the thing I really appreciated about Slott's writing of Pym is his ability to still make the guy seem pretty skeevy and gross while saving humanity over and over. Slott keeps Pym an arrogant, slimy jerk who is doing his best to redeem himself despite his obvious character flaws. It's very affective to be tricked into continually rooting for an asshole.

If you love old school comic ideas and characters a la Roger Stern or Walt Simonson, but you prefer the fast-paced action of a modern Ellis-type comic, this is pretty much the perfect book for you.

[Gavin]

I can't remember. Been a while. Pretty silly if I recall.

[Amanja · Rating 2 out of 5]

The Mighty Avengers is a run of Marvel comics started by Brian Michael Bendis and picked up by Dan Slott, this review is for the entire series.

In order to understand this run of comics you need a ton of backstory. You will have to be very well versed in Marval canon for it to be at all interesting and even then I still found it cluttered, boring, and uneventful.

The Mighty Avengers will tie up a couple of loose threads from The New Avengers runs, including what the heck happened with the Skrulls. So you definitely need to have read all of The New Avengers and be familiar with the Skrulls and the secret wars.

You should also be familiar with *deep breath*: Civil War, House of M, Young Avengers, Planet Hulk, World War Hulk, the corresponding Thor run, several Chinese superheroes such as The Lady of Ten Suns and Collective Man, some sort of Captain America knock off named USAgent, the Inhumans, and Clint Barton as Ronin. *exhale*

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[Tomás Sendarrubias García · Rating 3 out of 5]

Después de Invasión Secreta, Marvel sumió a sus personajes en un nuevo horizonte al que se llamó Reinado Oscuro, marcado por la figura de un Norman Osborn convertido en principal dirigente de las fuerza de seguridad de los Estados Unidos, incluyendo todo lo que había sido SHIELD, la Iniciativa, los Vengadores... Y con el Duende Verde al frente de todo, el universo Marvel se iba a convertir en un sitio muy oscuro y retorcido. Sería Brian Bendis quien dirigiera un poco el evento, como casi todo lo que ocurría en Marvel en aquel momento, y así surgirían, por ejemplo, los Vengadores Oscuros.

Pero se decidió dejar un resquicio de luz, y fue en Poderosos Vengadores, que quedó en manos del genial Dan Slott, un guionista reconocido por su sentido del humor entre otras muchas habilidades, y en la que se establecería el que sería el grupo rival directo de los Vengadores de Osborn, un grupo de Vengadores con carácter internacional y formado por Hank Pym (ahora conocido como Avispa), Yocasta, Hércules, Amadeus Cho, Mercurio, Visión, Estatura y el USAgente, reunidos por la Bruja Escarlata (más o menos). En Poderosos Vengadores de Dan Slott encontramos unos Vengadores de corte clásico, con tramas tradicionales, pero la serie tuvo poco desarrollo, ya que con el nuevo horizonte que seguiría a Reinado Oscuro tras Asedio, la serie se cancelaría.

Realmente, esta etapa de Poderosos Vengadores no es lo mejor de los Vengadores, ni mucho menos lo mejor que ha escrito Slott, tiene su gracia precisamente por su oposición al entorno del Reinado Oscuro y su carácter clásico, pero también es cierto que a nivel dibujo estuvo lastrada desde el principio por dos dibujantes con los que jamás llegué a encajar, Khoi Pham y Stephen Segovia, dos dibujantes más bien sucios y poco llamativos que en vez de sumar (hay docenas de etapas mediocres a nivel de guión que se han visto muy mejoradas por la habilidad de sus dibujantes), restaban calidad al producto final. Aún así, aprobado.

[Jon · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is quite a large hard cover collection (issues 21-36, it took at least 4 hours to get through). I haven't read much of the Avengers series in years (decades?), and this was an interesting omnibus of The Mighty Avengers from the past few years. My main complaint is that it didn't really explain much of what was going on. There was only one footnote explaining past happenstances, and there were large plot points that were glossed over. At one point, Hercules (who was one of the main characters) was missing and it was only breifly mentioned that he died. No mention of how or in what other comic it happened. I know that this makes me sound old, but "back in the day" Stan Lee had a policy that every comic could be someones first. There would always be a brief synopsis to bring everyone up to date for each issue. It's sad to see that go by the way side. It's more of an insiders serial and not that accessible. As a kid who was an exclusive "Marvel" reader, it's sad to see how DC handles new readers so much better nowadays. This was still fun, but a little confusing at times. The Avengers #269 (Kang Vs Immortus!) was my first book I ever bought, I'll always carry a spot in my heart for them.

[Nico Meyering · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a good book with a pretty interesting team lineup! I could have used more one-liners from Hercules and I wanted to see more of USAgent in fights (I don’t know much about him), but seeing Hank Pym succeeding in all his messed-up glory was pretty cool

[Bryan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like Dan Slott's writing a lot, but this team never quite came together for me, and I really wasn't on board for the Hank Pym Reclamation Project.

[Matt Sautman · Rating 5 out of 5]

While the storyline involving GRAMPA is silliness that feels straight out of Howard the Duck or She-Hulk rather than a mainline Avengers book, the adventures of Earth’s Scientist Supreme and his team of unconventional Avengers makes for a series of adventures that leans into camp but also exemplifies an era where Tony Stark has lost all credibility in a post-Secret Invasion landscape. Some choices with Jocasta feel a bit off, but overall Dark Reign’s cabal, much like the Illuminati before them, marks hubris’s capacity to undermine political affiliation. Thematically, this may be less satisfying, but Slott has so much fun here while also building on every choice in this book that I couldn’t help but smile the whole time I read it.

[Jimbo · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really thought that this collection was written well. The idea that Hank Pym is a leader of men, and owing to the fact that he is a bit off his rocker, makes this an interesting idea for Slott and Pham and Gace to put their incredible minds and talents too.

The art is beautiful, one particular image sticks with me and it is the final image of Thor at the end of one of the issues. It is beautiful and the rest of the art is just as well done.

The story (although they kill of Hercules somewhere, but I have no idea when or how) is fairly complete. I haven't read the whole Dark Reign story line, so I was a little out of the loop.

I'll catch up, though.

[AviChaim Snyder · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was a little hesitant about reading this volume after the first run by Bendis. I enjoyed Bendis' run but it was all over the place. This volume managed to stay on plot the entire run and I was thankful for that. I loved this volume! The villains are fun but whatever but the real intrigue lies with Hank Pym and his scientific curiosities. Finally I felt like Hank wasn't being used as a punching bag by the writers but given actual growth and care to develop as a character. The arc between Hank and Jocasta was entertaining and heartbreaking. Definitely recommend. Grade: B+

[Kamil Zawiślak · Rating 3 out of 5]

7/10

this is what Young Avengers should've more felt like.
this ends up being quite an important part of Dark Reign, if you don't understand Loki's motivations or actions towards the Siege.

also, it has a much lighter tone to the books from that period.

if you liked Initiative, you'll like this

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was really good. This might be my favorite iteration of the Avengers. Oh and also: The Scientist Supreme.

[Travis · Rating 3 out of 5]

In the midst of the train wreck that is marvel during Bendis' Avengers era, Dan Slott is given the Avenger title Bendis doesn't want, a bunch of B and C list heroes, Hank Pym having yet another identity crisis and creates an actual fun series to read.

I'm as surprised as you are!

Slott makes good use of the various heroes histories, as well as Avengers history and digs deep into his Marvel universe handbook to find them villains to fight.

A nice mix of damage control and big comic book adventure.

[Holden Attradies · Rating 4 out of 5]

I', really happy I got the issues covered in this volume as this hardcover. This second half of the series really is a different story/team/series and it's nice having it separated in it's own book on my shelf.

I really enjoyed the line up of heroes. After reading this I'm totally interested in reading more of Hercules. And it totally left me missing the ever so short lived Young Avengers series. The call back to Loki as the big bad was a great edition, and they did a good job of balancing the feel of nostalgia over past Avengers glory and taking on current stories.

Hank Pym really is the center of these stories and it's nice getting to see him shine in all his tarnished glory. The more I've read Marvel Comics the more I've enjoyed his character: he is both one of the greatest hero's whilst also being one of the biggest fuck ups and that really get's to shine here.

Does the book drop the ball in a few places? Yeah, especially the last few issues worth of material. The Ultron story, while enjoyable, seemed a little uneven. And the series fell like it was falling apart during Seige, and it felt like those last pages everything was happening off panel, which I guess it was. I wish there had been more notes explaining where various characters went to in which comics (like Marvel used to).

[Judah Radd · Rating 3 out of 5]

The two words that jump out at me are “stupid” and “boring.” Was it horrible? Ehhhhhhh I guess not. But it wasn’t good. I’ve see Dan Slott at his best. I know he’s better than this.

So here’s the deal... I like change. I like new characters, I like old characters in new roles, and I like seeing a franchise evolve. This was an attempt at accomplishing that, and for trying, I give it kudos. The problem is that so many things fell by the wayside. The story developments seemed so random and forced. The character arcs were contrived. I get the need for Hank Pym to have a redemption arc, and this story occasionally reminded us that this was his redemption arc... but it never actually happened. He continued to stroke his own ego and wallow in his self pity until the very end, where he became smugger, which I guess meant that he’d evolved? I dunno. Piss poor.

The art fluctuated. Some of it was ok, some of it was good. None of it was great.

There was some witty dialogue that I enjoyed, but it was only occasional.

All in all, I think this one is safe to skip.

[Eric Nicholas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent read considering it is such an average avengers team.

Pym acts like a douche and ends up saving the day - this is the main theme through each plot line. There are 3 main story arcs in this, with the massive team up against the unspoken the apex of this for me personally.

In between 34-35 (I think it was), the mighty avengers team featured in other marvel events, which completely affected the team, so it can get really confusing if not known (like I was). In fact, the final two comics seem really cheaply done, expecially the disband and no real reason for coming together again.
Nevertheless is an entertaining read. 3.4

[Omni Theus]

I gave up midway through issue 32. This title was very poor. Not going to rate it but it felt so far below the other titles of the era and was more of a set up run for what Hickman was bringing to the table and allowing Greg Pak a break from writing Cho and Herc more than anything else. Definitely one of the weakest titles during the Dark Reign period. Got to page 325.

[Tym · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’m in the minority with my love for Dan Slott

[Erik · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sooooooooooo much Hit Monkey in this

[B · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a really weird turn - Hank Pym doing Hank Pym things with a diverse cast and then . . . Ultron.