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Avengers Epic Collection
Avengers Epic Collection, Vol. 23: Fear the Reaper
When come the Gatherers! First, the machinations of Hera and Ares pit Hercules against Thor! A visit from the Starjammers and the X-Men proves painful for the Black Knight - and so do his feelings for Crystal and Sersi! And the demonic return of a classic villain teaches the Avengers to fear the Grim Reaper - not to mention his shambling Legion of the Unliving! Then, the Gatherers - Proctor, Magdalene and the Swordsman, plus Sloth and Cassandra - attack at last! But what is the secret behind their dastardly plan - and why is their next target Black Panther? Plus, the Avengers aid Arkon! And Captain America, Thor and the Fantastic Four are drawn into the time-travel saga of Citizen Kang! COLLECTING: VOL. 23: AVENGERS (1963) 348-359, ANNUAL 21; MATERIAL FROM CAPTAIN AMERICA ANNUAL 11, THOR ANNUAL 17, FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL 25
479 pages, Paperback
First published April 23, 2019
About the author
Mark Gruenwald
920 books46 followersGruenwald got his start in comics fandom, publishing his own fanzine, Omniverse, which explored the concept of continuity. Before being hired by Marvel, he wrote text articles for DC Comics official fanzine, The Amazing World of DC Comics. Articles by Gruenwald include "The Martian Chronicles" (a history of the Martian Manhunter) in issue #13 and several articles on the history of the Justice League in issue #14.
In 1978 he was hired by Marvel Comics, where he remained for the rest of his career. Hired initially as an assistant editor in January 1978, Gruenwald was promoted to full editorship by Marvel editor-in-chief Jim Shooter in 1982, putting Gruenwald in charge of The Avengers, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Spider Woman, and What If. During this period, he shared an office with writer/editor Denny O'Neil, whom Gruenwald considered a mentor.
In 1982, Gruenwald, Steven Grant, and Bill Mantlo co-wrote Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions, the first limited seriespublished by Marvel Comics. As a writer, Gruenwald is best known for creating the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe and his ten-year stint as the writer of Captain America during which he contributed several notable characters such as Crossbones, Diamondback and U.S. Agent. He made a deliberate effort to create villains who would be specific to Captain America, as opposed to generic foes who could as easily have been introduced in another comic.
His 60-issue run on Quasar realized Gruenwald's ambition to write his own kind of superhero. However, he considered his magnum opus to be the mid-1980s 12-issue miniseries Squadron Supreme, which told the story of an alternate universe where a group of well-intended superheroes decide that they would be best suited to run the planet
In 1978 he was hired by Marvel Comics, where he remained for the rest of his career. Hired initially as an assistant editor in January 1978, Gruenwald was promoted to full editorship by Marvel editor-in-chief Jim Shooter in 1982, putting Gruenwald in charge of The Avengers, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Spider Woman, and What If. During this period, he shared an office with writer/editor Denny O'Neil, whom Gruenwald considered a mentor.
In 1982, Gruenwald, Steven Grant, and Bill Mantlo co-wrote Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions, the first limited seriespublished by Marvel Comics. As a writer, Gruenwald is best known for creating the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe and his ten-year stint as the writer of Captain America during which he contributed several notable characters such as Crossbones, Diamondback and U.S. Agent. He made a deliberate effort to create villains who would be specific to Captain America, as opposed to generic foes who could as easily have been introduced in another comic.
His 60-issue run on Quasar realized Gruenwald's ambition to write his own kind of superhero. However, he considered his magnum opus to be the mid-1980s 12-issue miniseries Squadron Supreme, which told the story of an alternate universe where a group of well-intended superheroes decide that they would be best suited to run the planet
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March 27, 2025
Bob Harras should stick with editing comics instead of writing them. These stories were boring and uninteresting. The Kang story that goes across the Avengers related annuals feels like a cheesy throwback. There's no large ongoing story across this collection. It's just a year of Avengers comics from 1992 collected together. Even Steve Epting's art isn't all that great, although that probably has a lot to do with Tom Palmer's inking.
February 21, 2020
This Bob Harras era is probably the low-point of this original Avengers series.
June 8, 2024
There are two broad concepts of 'who gets to be an Avenger?' at play in Marvel Comics. The first is simple enough - the Avengers are the big names; if you can sustain a long-running solo book and you're not obviously part of another team, you're an Avenger. The second is that the Avengers is a place for interesting characters who aren't getting shine elsewhere; this mostly ends up meaning (with somewhat circular logic) a bunch of people like the Vision, who are well-known because they've appeared in Avengers. But it can include all kinds of minor figures.
In practice the comic generally works as "a little from column A, a little from column B" - since the MCU, and so for the foreseeable future, the balance has been more to the big names with a couple of strays thrown in. In the 00s, Brian Bendis tilted things so far in the "big names" direction that the book could credibly slap a 'New' on its title. But what about the other direction? Its heyday was the 80s and 90s, and its culmination was the 'Jacket Era', written by Bob Harras, which really gets going in Fear The Reaper. The Avengers line-up here includes Thor, but it's the era when Thor was just some mortal guy. Otherwise it's Black Widow, Vision, Hercules, Black Knight, Crystal and Sersi - two 70s perennials; two 80s semi-regulars; and two representatives of concepts which had never quite managed to keep their own comics going.
It's pretty obvious why Harras set the team up like this. The most popular comic in the industry was X-Men, and the received wisdom - shared by Harras as X-books editor - was that the thing which made it so popular was its complex, rangy, soap operatic plotting. So for several years every team book felt a little bit like Claremont X-Men, and it's very hard to do a soap-operatic book with long-form plotting if you're constantly having to co-ordinate that with a bunch of other comics. Hercules and the Black Widow could do interesting things with lasting consequences in a way that Iron Man and Cap couldn't.
Or at least that was the theory. In practice Harras settles quickly on the main character focus for his run and it's the Black Knight. More specifically, the Black Knight's love life. He fancies the arse off perennial bad girl Crystal (though sadly Harras writes her as considerably less messy than her previous main writer, Steve Englehart), but is being hotly pursued by bored immortal and even badder girl Sersi. What's a designer-stubbled hunk to do? NOT MUCH, is the answer - this plot barely moves across the 11 issues of Avengers we get here.
The choice of Black Knight as the de facto lead character, alongside the glaring diversity issues this Avengers team has, underlines the main way Harras' vision of a team book differs from the Claremont template. The Claremont soap is sprawling and expansive because it wants to bring in as many and varied points of view as possible. Harras' Avengers limits its perspective - this is a comic centred on the experiences of a young, straight, white guy. Dane Whitman, stripped of his gnarlier - and frankly more interesting - aspects as a character (the cursed sword, the 12th century) can stand as an everyman, reader-aspiration figure within Harras' highly conservative model of who comics readers are and what they want. This isn't the Avengers as a soap, it's the Avengers as a 90s TV drama with a strong male lead.
Within those dull and self-imposed confines, though, Harras does not do a bad job. Having a steady cast and ongoing plots does help the comic, and with the exception of Larry Hama's wonderfully odd and brief run this is the most engaging the Avengers has been for several years. There's a virtue in just delivering on the basics - one or two part stories with clear stakes which are part of a wider thread. Steve Epting's art is well within the lines of the Marvel house style but there's enough dynamism to give it a 90s gloss - the headdresses, jackets and pouches typical of the era, but given a bit more Adams-ish weight and realism.
Harras' big idea is to tie all this stuff together with a much larger ongoing story, involving multidimensional villains the Gatherers, whose mystery is still being spooled out as this collection ends. From dim memory this plot becomes interminable, but at this stage it's still intriguing, and the multiversal shenanigans, collecting Avenger alternates from different worlds, make this little-loved story a lost precursor to the two longest Avengers sagas of the 2010s and 2020s. Proctor, leader of the Gatherers, is the most 90s design, and the most hokey character, in the book, but I'll admit to wanting to see what he's up to. (Again, though, the fact I read this at the time and can't for the life of me remember doesn't bode well)
As is always the case with Epic Collections, there are a couple of Annuals and filler stories in here too. The Annual event, Citizen Kang, is the one story here which does have a "big names" squad of Avengers involved, crossing over between Captain America, Fantastic Four and Avengers Annuals. Like most Kang stories, it's all good clean time travel until Kang actually shows up and bores everyone rigid. Finally, there's a 3-part Len Kaminsky horror story about the Grim Reaper, which fits in as a filler while the book had one of its summer double-shipping phases. This is above-par, with a tight, creepy script from Kaminsky and primitive, murky but atmospheric art from M C Wyman. It's also one of the very few stories where being told his plan is stupid makes the villain think "oh shit, they're right" and give up.
In practice the comic generally works as "a little from column A, a little from column B" - since the MCU, and so for the foreseeable future, the balance has been more to the big names with a couple of strays thrown in. In the 00s, Brian Bendis tilted things so far in the "big names" direction that the book could credibly slap a 'New' on its title. But what about the other direction? Its heyday was the 80s and 90s, and its culmination was the 'Jacket Era', written by Bob Harras, which really gets going in Fear The Reaper. The Avengers line-up here includes Thor, but it's the era when Thor was just some mortal guy. Otherwise it's Black Widow, Vision, Hercules, Black Knight, Crystal and Sersi - two 70s perennials; two 80s semi-regulars; and two representatives of concepts which had never quite managed to keep their own comics going.
It's pretty obvious why Harras set the team up like this. The most popular comic in the industry was X-Men, and the received wisdom - shared by Harras as X-books editor - was that the thing which made it so popular was its complex, rangy, soap operatic plotting. So for several years every team book felt a little bit like Claremont X-Men, and it's very hard to do a soap-operatic book with long-form plotting if you're constantly having to co-ordinate that with a bunch of other comics. Hercules and the Black Widow could do interesting things with lasting consequences in a way that Iron Man and Cap couldn't.
Or at least that was the theory. In practice Harras settles quickly on the main character focus for his run and it's the Black Knight. More specifically, the Black Knight's love life. He fancies the arse off perennial bad girl Crystal (though sadly Harras writes her as considerably less messy than her previous main writer, Steve Englehart), but is being hotly pursued by bored immortal and even badder girl Sersi. What's a designer-stubbled hunk to do? NOT MUCH, is the answer - this plot barely moves across the 11 issues of Avengers we get here.
The choice of Black Knight as the de facto lead character, alongside the glaring diversity issues this Avengers team has, underlines the main way Harras' vision of a team book differs from the Claremont template. The Claremont soap is sprawling and expansive because it wants to bring in as many and varied points of view as possible. Harras' Avengers limits its perspective - this is a comic centred on the experiences of a young, straight, white guy. Dane Whitman, stripped of his gnarlier - and frankly more interesting - aspects as a character (the cursed sword, the 12th century) can stand as an everyman, reader-aspiration figure within Harras' highly conservative model of who comics readers are and what they want. This isn't the Avengers as a soap, it's the Avengers as a 90s TV drama with a strong male lead.
Within those dull and self-imposed confines, though, Harras does not do a bad job. Having a steady cast and ongoing plots does help the comic, and with the exception of Larry Hama's wonderfully odd and brief run this is the most engaging the Avengers has been for several years. There's a virtue in just delivering on the basics - one or two part stories with clear stakes which are part of a wider thread. Steve Epting's art is well within the lines of the Marvel house style but there's enough dynamism to give it a 90s gloss - the headdresses, jackets and pouches typical of the era, but given a bit more Adams-ish weight and realism.
Harras' big idea is to tie all this stuff together with a much larger ongoing story, involving multidimensional villains the Gatherers, whose mystery is still being spooled out as this collection ends. From dim memory this plot becomes interminable, but at this stage it's still intriguing, and the multiversal shenanigans, collecting Avenger alternates from different worlds, make this little-loved story a lost precursor to the two longest Avengers sagas of the 2010s and 2020s. Proctor, leader of the Gatherers, is the most 90s design, and the most hokey character, in the book, but I'll admit to wanting to see what he's up to. (Again, though, the fact I read this at the time and can't for the life of me remember doesn't bode well)
As is always the case with Epic Collections, there are a couple of Annuals and filler stories in here too. The Annual event, Citizen Kang, is the one story here which does have a "big names" squad of Avengers involved, crossing over between Captain America, Fantastic Four and Avengers Annuals. Like most Kang stories, it's all good clean time travel until Kang actually shows up and bores everyone rigid. Finally, there's a 3-part Len Kaminsky horror story about the Grim Reaper, which fits in as a filler while the book had one of its summer double-shipping phases. This is above-par, with a tight, creepy script from Kaminsky and primitive, murky but atmospheric art from M C Wyman. It's also one of the very few stories where being told his plan is stupid makes the villain think "oh shit, they're right" and give up.
October 27, 2023
After several volumes of aimlessness and instability, the Avengers finally have a stable roster and a stable writer with Bob Harras. This volume has been my favourite since Epic volume 17.
There's quite a lot of developoment and plots introduced within these issues. Vision starts to show emotion again after his dismantling by John Byrne. Hercules is unknowingly plagued by the scheming Hera and Ares. Something seems to be manipulating Sersi as well, making her more aggressive and possibly murderous. Black Knight has to deal with the Kree wanting their revenge on him for killing the Supreme Intelligence. A love triangle starts to form between Black Knight, Sersi and Crystal, and a great friendship begins between Hercules and the new Thor. Every character seems to have something happening with them. Except maybe Black Widow, the leader of the team who just seems to hang out in the background, directing the team and coming up with strategies. Even Jarvis has some interesting interactions due to his annoyance and bickering with Crystal's Inhuman nanny, Marilla. It's a lot of fun.
While this is going on, some new villains called the Gatherers appear under the leadership of the mysterious Proctor. These villains are made up of survivors of destroyed universes and are after the Avengers. You don't get to learn too much about them yet, but it's an engaging mystery.
I should mention the art as well. The art by Epting and Palmer is fantastic! It makes this volume worth the price just by the art itself.
Aside from the main stories by Harras, Epting and Palmer, there is also a 3 issue fill in story by Len Kaminski which deals with the Grim Reaper, who has come back to life with dark magic. It's a good story with really creepy art. Kaminski goes into horror territory with this story, with the Avengers being transported to the underworld to face the Grim Reaper.
There is also a crossover between the Annuals which takes up a large portion of the book which deals with Kang. Annual Crossovers are never anything great, and nearly made me reduce my rating of this book to 3 stars. The strength of the rest of the issues in this book kept it at 4 though.
I'm looking forward to reading the rest of Bob Harras's Avengers run. I heard that it goes downhill after #375, but the next 2 volumes at least should still be great.
There's quite a lot of developoment and plots introduced within these issues. Vision starts to show emotion again after his dismantling by John Byrne. Hercules is unknowingly plagued by the scheming Hera and Ares. Something seems to be manipulating Sersi as well, making her more aggressive and possibly murderous. Black Knight has to deal with the Kree wanting their revenge on him for killing the Supreme Intelligence. A love triangle starts to form between Black Knight, Sersi and Crystal, and a great friendship begins between Hercules and the new Thor. Every character seems to have something happening with them. Except maybe Black Widow, the leader of the team who just seems to hang out in the background, directing the team and coming up with strategies. Even Jarvis has some interesting interactions due to his annoyance and bickering with Crystal's Inhuman nanny, Marilla. It's a lot of fun.
While this is going on, some new villains called the Gatherers appear under the leadership of the mysterious Proctor. These villains are made up of survivors of destroyed universes and are after the Avengers. You don't get to learn too much about them yet, but it's an engaging mystery.
I should mention the art as well. The art by Epting and Palmer is fantastic! It makes this volume worth the price just by the art itself.
Aside from the main stories by Harras, Epting and Palmer, there is also a 3 issue fill in story by Len Kaminski which deals with the Grim Reaper, who has come back to life with dark magic. It's a good story with really creepy art. Kaminski goes into horror territory with this story, with the Avengers being transported to the underworld to face the Grim Reaper.
There is also a crossover between the Annuals which takes up a large portion of the book which deals with Kang. Annual Crossovers are never anything great, and nearly made me reduce my rating of this book to 3 stars. The strength of the rest of the issues in this book kept it at 4 though.
I'm looking forward to reading the rest of Bob Harras's Avengers run. I heard that it goes downhill after #375, but the next 2 volumes at least should still be great.
July 14, 2022
"I WAS BORN IN THE 30TH CENTURY ON AN EARTH PARALLEL TO THIS ONE. MY ORIGINAL NAME DOES NOT MATTER. BUT I HAD A GREAT ANCESTOR, A WARLORD AND SCIENTIFIC GENIUS. SOME SAY HIS NAME WAS RICHARDS. OTHERS SAY IT WAS VON DOOM."
- Kang the Conqueror... monologing!
What's Kang up to? Oh, him? He's just monologing... again. What a douche. He's the futuristic f@#$-up who wishes he was Doctor Doom.
If there's an actual plot to Citizen Kang, I missed it. What a SLOG!
The rest of this book was still a slog though less pointless. While I saw an assortment of adventure plots, I was really intrigued by the soap opera sub-plots. I.e. Black Knight and Crystal have some kind of "a thing" between them, but she's married to Quicksilver and they have a daughter Luna, who, as the granddaughter of Magneto, plays into subsequent issues.
Oh, and Hercules meets his dream girl, but Hera's somehow involved.
I don't know how Marilla, the overbearing Inhuman nanny to Luna, came into the picture but I find her obnoxious. Not like, Deadpool obnoxious, but in a manner that is devoid of entertainment value. She talks like an old timey sailor from the 18th century, can't remember Jarvis' name and is constantly trying to assert her will over his. I guess she's supposed to be comic relief, yet I found nothing humorous about her.
We meet the Gatherers for whom the next epic collection is titled. Avenger analogs from other universes who are "gathering" characters from accross the multiverse to develop their team for an unknown end purpose. I'd like to see more about them, but I also don't want to slog through more of their grandiose dialogue.
This book ends with a story about the extra-dimensional dictator Arkon, where they tried to make him out to be a responsible leader. It sort of worked. Not a bad close to an otherwise less-than-compelling read.
This wasn't altogether awful, except for the utterly pointless Citizen Kang super-story. There were a few high points, but not enough to overshadow the detractors.
Three stars.
- Kang the Conqueror... monologing!
What's Kang up to? Oh, him? He's just monologing... again. What a douche. He's the futuristic f@#$-up who wishes he was Doctor Doom.
If there's an actual plot to Citizen Kang, I missed it. What a SLOG!
The rest of this book was still a slog though less pointless. While I saw an assortment of adventure plots, I was really intrigued by the soap opera sub-plots. I.e. Black Knight and Crystal have some kind of "a thing" between them, but she's married to Quicksilver and they have a daughter Luna, who, as the granddaughter of Magneto, plays into subsequent issues.
Oh, and Hercules meets his dream girl, but Hera's somehow involved.
I don't know how Marilla, the overbearing Inhuman nanny to Luna, came into the picture but I find her obnoxious. Not like, Deadpool obnoxious, but in a manner that is devoid of entertainment value. She talks like an old timey sailor from the 18th century, can't remember Jarvis' name and is constantly trying to assert her will over his. I guess she's supposed to be comic relief, yet I found nothing humorous about her.
We meet the Gatherers for whom the next epic collection is titled. Avenger analogs from other universes who are "gathering" characters from accross the multiverse to develop their team for an unknown end purpose. I'd like to see more about them, but I also don't want to slog through more of their grandiose dialogue.
This book ends with a story about the extra-dimensional dictator Arkon, where they tried to make him out to be a responsible leader. It sort of worked. Not a bad close to an otherwise less-than-compelling read.
This wasn't altogether awful, except for the utterly pointless Citizen Kang super-story. There were a few high points, but not enough to overshadow the detractors.
Three stars.
September 2, 2021
É bem ruim.
Não é tão ruim quanto o próximo volume dos Ajuntadores nem tão ruim quanto os volumes do Doutor Druida, mas é bem ruim.
Começamos com o Cidadão Kang, uma história envolvendo os Vingadores, o Capitão América, o Thor e o Quarteto Fantástico nos seus Anuais, e deveria ser uma reinvenção do Kang, mas é só um emaranhado de reviravoltas que funcionam, em determinado momento eu achei que tinha trocado por um gibi dos Trapalhões e não percebi. O que deixa ainda pior, o pior vingador de todos os tempos aparece, Doutor Druida, agora porrada e cabeludo - parece que o calendário Pilomax realmente funciona.
Depois temos um boa história do Visão tentando se ligar a alguma fagulha de humanidade; uma porradaria franca e honesta entre os Vingadores e o Ceifador, agora meganecromântico; Ares e a Hera infernizando a vida do Hércules que se apaixona por uma enfermeira; os Piratas Siderais tentam matar o Cavaleiro Negro e há toda uma confusão sobre isso; a Sesi tá louca pra descobrir qual o tamanho da espada negra do Cavaleiro, mas o Dane fica se fazendo de morto pra ganhar sapato novo e trocando olhares de culpa e luxúria com a Cristalys; o Jarvis e a babá inumana ficam se atrapalhando; os Vingadores precisam ajudar Arkon - o cara do raio - a salvar planeta Polemachus e, no final, a Sersi enche o saco e cruza a linha incruzável.
Tem toda a função dos Ajuntadores, mas eu acho tão ruim que eu nem vou comentar.
Tem coisas bem legais: a broderagem entre o Cavaleiro e o Hércules, há um bom número de edições que começam, ou terminam, com os dois enchendo a cara do boteco; o triângulo pseudo-amoroso Sersi-Dane-Crystalys é bem divertido, como escutava lá no Alegrete "água morro abaixo, fogo morro acima... ninguém segura."
Claro que é uma fase que não se garante comparada com outras fases melhores dos Vingadores, provavelmente é a terceira pior, perdendo pra fase do Doutor Druida e pra fase do Chuck Austen, mas não foi tão dolorido assim.
Não é tão ruim quanto o próximo volume dos Ajuntadores nem tão ruim quanto os volumes do Doutor Druida, mas é bem ruim.
Começamos com o Cidadão Kang, uma história envolvendo os Vingadores, o Capitão América, o Thor e o Quarteto Fantástico nos seus Anuais, e deveria ser uma reinvenção do Kang, mas é só um emaranhado de reviravoltas que funcionam, em determinado momento eu achei que tinha trocado por um gibi dos Trapalhões e não percebi. O que deixa ainda pior, o pior vingador de todos os tempos aparece, Doutor Druida, agora porrada e cabeludo - parece que o calendário Pilomax realmente funciona.
Depois temos um boa história do Visão tentando se ligar a alguma fagulha de humanidade; uma porradaria franca e honesta entre os Vingadores e o Ceifador, agora meganecromântico; Ares e a Hera infernizando a vida do Hércules que se apaixona por uma enfermeira; os Piratas Siderais tentam matar o Cavaleiro Negro e há toda uma confusão sobre isso; a Sesi tá louca pra descobrir qual o tamanho da espada negra do Cavaleiro, mas o Dane fica se fazendo de morto pra ganhar sapato novo e trocando olhares de culpa e luxúria com a Cristalys; o Jarvis e a babá inumana ficam se atrapalhando; os Vingadores precisam ajudar Arkon - o cara do raio - a salvar planeta Polemachus e, no final, a Sersi enche o saco e cruza a linha incruzável.
Tem toda a função dos Ajuntadores, mas eu acho tão ruim que eu nem vou comentar.
Tem coisas bem legais: a broderagem entre o Cavaleiro e o Hércules, há um bom número de edições que começam, ou terminam, com os dois enchendo a cara do boteco; o triângulo pseudo-amoroso Sersi-Dane-Crystalys é bem divertido, como escutava lá no Alegrete "água morro abaixo, fogo morro acima... ninguém segura."
Claro que é uma fase que não se garante comparada com outras fases melhores dos Vingadores, provavelmente é a terceira pior, perdendo pra fase do Doutor Druida e pra fase do Chuck Austen, mas não foi tão dolorido assim.
June 8, 2021
- 1 anual de uma série de 4 (capitão) citizen kang
Capitão aterra numa cidade à procura do visão e apartir daí é a loucura , visões , bolhas do tempo , Gilgamesh, referências a Moisés, kang e sua origem e trajeto ( q é uma confusão sem limites )
-Thor annnual #17 , Thor vai atrás do capitão desaparecido e entra tb numa bolha do tempo indo dar ao conflito na França do século 10 (este Thor Eric masterson é bem irritante) , continuação do trajeto de kang
-FF annual #25 - os ff são convocados pelo dr druida e nebula para confrontar kang , assim como os restantes vingadores vão procurar seus colegas desaparecidos e ambos grupos se encontram na cidadela de kang , kang q continua com na terceira parte do seu histórico de confrontos (q confusão )
-Avengers annual #21 (final da história citizen kang , muito fraco , cheio de conveniências) - final das crónicas de kang
Nesta altura os anuais serviam para experiências com equipas criativas e história fracas ao contrário do que deveria ser , histórias épicas com grandes astros
-#348 a #359 (visão busca voltar a sentir emoções, ares vinga se de seu meio irmão Hércules colocando o numa luta contra Thor ,raza dos starjammers é contratado para matar o cavaleiro negro ,o grim reaper faz um pacto com um super demónio q lhe dá poderes sobrenaturais de modo a vencer os vingadores (uma mão com olhos nos dedos e boca na palma), surgem uns viajantes do multiverso q colectam heróis sobreviventes de mundos aniquilados q para sobreviverem tem de matar a sua versão na terra 616, Arkon e thundra invadem a terra em busca de auxílio, mas 1 claro uma luta onde Hércules espanca arkon, e no final os vingadores aceitam tentar salvar o mundo de arkon
- o capitão América n aparece neste Epic
- um género de quadrado amoroso entre visão,cristalys, cavaleiro negro e sersi
- os heróis juntos parecem mais fracos do q sozinhos nos seus títulos
Capitão aterra numa cidade à procura do visão e apartir daí é a loucura , visões , bolhas do tempo , Gilgamesh, referências a Moisés, kang e sua origem e trajeto ( q é uma confusão sem limites )
-Thor annnual #17 , Thor vai atrás do capitão desaparecido e entra tb numa bolha do tempo indo dar ao conflito na França do século 10 (este Thor Eric masterson é bem irritante) , continuação do trajeto de kang
-FF annual #25 - os ff são convocados pelo dr druida e nebula para confrontar kang , assim como os restantes vingadores vão procurar seus colegas desaparecidos e ambos grupos se encontram na cidadela de kang , kang q continua com na terceira parte do seu histórico de confrontos (q confusão )
-Avengers annual #21 (final da história citizen kang , muito fraco , cheio de conveniências) - final das crónicas de kang
Nesta altura os anuais serviam para experiências com equipas criativas e história fracas ao contrário do que deveria ser , histórias épicas com grandes astros
-#348 a #359 (visão busca voltar a sentir emoções, ares vinga se de seu meio irmão Hércules colocando o numa luta contra Thor ,raza dos starjammers é contratado para matar o cavaleiro negro ,o grim reaper faz um pacto com um super demónio q lhe dá poderes sobrenaturais de modo a vencer os vingadores (uma mão com olhos nos dedos e boca na palma), surgem uns viajantes do multiverso q colectam heróis sobreviventes de mundos aniquilados q para sobreviverem tem de matar a sua versão na terra 616, Arkon e thundra invadem a terra em busca de auxílio, mas 1 claro uma luta onde Hércules espanca arkon, e no final os vingadores aceitam tentar salvar o mundo de arkon
- o capitão América n aparece neste Epic
- um género de quadrado amoroso entre visão,cristalys, cavaleiro negro e sersi
- os heróis juntos parecem mais fracos do q sozinhos nos seus títulos
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June 10, 2019
It was fun to see what Marvel was doing in the early 90's when I was just a wee lil babe.
February 25, 2020
Qué hacía yo en los primeros noventa, leyendo los X-Men depauperados post-Claremont en lugar de devorar esta maravilla???
March 8, 2021
I don’t know what is wrong with some of you, but Tom Palmer’s inks are the saving grace of this book. Also, what’s the deal with the 90s and jackets over uniforms?
October 22, 2021
Not bad for 90s Marvel which really only had a handful of good titles at the time.
June 29, 2020
The 90s were a weird time for the Avengers. A very unique line-up of C- and D-listers, and the A-and B-listers who were there are not readily recognizable (looking at you, Black Widow!). This collection is a mixed bag. It starts with the Citizen Kang crossovers from 4 annuals. It's a pretty terrible story, one more reminiscent of something cheesy from the 60s. The main title stories are fairly decent. The 350th anniversary issue with the StarJammers was enjoyable, and the M.C. Wyman-illustrated Fear the Reaper arc was creepy and fun to read. The Gatherers mystery actually leads up to the first issue of the Avengers I ever bought and read growing up! So, it was fun to see the genesis of that storyline at last.
The art from early Steve Epting is okay. Faces look weird and cat-like sometimes, though. I really enjoy his subsequent work on X-Factor (especially during the AoA Factor-X series), but otherwise this was just fine.
A very strange, random volume with some strange, random stories to boot!
The art from early Steve Epting is okay. Faces look weird and cat-like sometimes, though. I really enjoy his subsequent work on X-Factor (especially during the AoA Factor-X series), but otherwise this was just fine.
A very strange, random volume with some strange, random stories to boot!
March 14, 2023
The Kang issues in the beginning had a lot of recap but ended up having some fun points. There was a few issues in the middle that had vision finding his human side and even a star jammers crossover. Around the part where the grim reaper showed up the book became pretty whatever but I find these avengers volumes are always a fun random romp.
December 9, 2019
Amongst the heroics there started to emerge some interesting story...
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