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Avengers (1996) #1-12
Heroes Reborn: Avengers - Extended edition
In 1996, the hottest creators of the day teamed up to reimagine and reinvigorate Marvel's greatest heroes. The Avengers and Fantastic Four were reborn with bold new looks on a brave new world, their origins re-envisioned with a raw vitality and contemporary sensibility! Captain America, Scarlet Witch, Vision, Hawkeye, Hellcat and more: the Avengers lineup is both new and classic - but will Thor assemble alongside them? They'll need him against revised versions of Kang, Ultron, the Enchantress, the Masters of Evil and more -but as Ant-Man and Iron Man enter the fray, what is Loki up to in the shadows? Plus: the Avengers and Fantastic Four take on the Hulk - and Galactus! COLLECTING: AVENGERS (1996) 1-12; IRON MAN (1996) 6, 12; FANTASTIC FOUR (1996) 12; CAPTAIN AMERICA (1996) 12; MATERIAL FROM FANTASTIC FOUR (1996) 6; CAPTAIN AMERICA (1996) 6
496 pages, Paperback
Published October 6, 2020
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About the author
Rob Liefeld
829 books85 followersRob Liefeld is an American comic book writer, illustrator, and publisher. A prominent artist in the 1990s, he has since become a controversial figure in the medium.
In the early 1990s, self-taught artist Liefeld became prominent due to his work on Marvel Comics' The New Mutants and later X-Force. In 1992, he and several other popular Marvel illustrators left the company to found Image Comics, which rode the wave of comic books owned by their creators rather than by publishers. The first book published by Image Comics was Rob Liefeld's Youngblood #1.
He is married to actress Joy Creel.
In the early 1990s, self-taught artist Liefeld became prominent due to his work on Marvel Comics' The New Mutants and later X-Force. In 1992, he and several other popular Marvel illustrators left the company to found Image Comics, which rode the wave of comic books owned by their creators rather than by publishers. The first book published by Image Comics was Rob Liefeld's Youngblood #1.
He is married to actress Joy Creel.
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March 25, 2024
My brother had a couple of issues of this when we were kids, and now I finally know how the story ends. As much as this is loathed, I found it comparable to most Avengers comics I've read. Only the crossovers were really bad, and crossovers usually are. I don't hate Liefeld's work like some do, though didn't care for the bizarre anatomy on enchantress. I quite like Chap Yaep's work here.
January 23, 2026
1.5 stars. I found the Avengers: Heroes Reborn title to be abysmal. Speed read most of it because I just couldn't stand it
It is thoroughly bad, and only improves slightly with the course correct mid-story when Walt Simonson is brought on to write. The worst is when there are splash pages where whole groups of Avengers villians are introduced (Wonder Man, Ultron 5, Living Lazer, among others) with no preamble and that just goes nowhere. Bloody awful!
At the time Simonson comes on, the more egregious elements of Hawkeye looking like Wolverine, and Hellcat like Feral, are unaccountably fixed. But thank God they did it, because Liefeld's sensibility of grafting an X-Men aesthetic onto the Avengers is intolerable. And you know you've got faith in your creations when the real Thor shows up, and the HR Thor (tellingly) dies! This alternate reality is woeful.
The crossover at the end of this book is a retelling of Galactus' coming, and all of the HR heroes introduced from the Avengers, Cap, Iron Man and FF titles are present. But there is no good story development for these characters, and they're just fairly hollow versions of the MU characters.
I can kind of see HR as a precursor to the Ultimate Universe, which is kind of an interesting thought, but that's the only latitude I can give this series. I hope Walt Simonson was paid an enormous amount of money to help course correct this monstrosity of a comic book series.
It is thoroughly bad, and only improves slightly with the course correct mid-story when Walt Simonson is brought on to write. The worst is when there are splash pages where whole groups of Avengers villians are introduced (Wonder Man, Ultron 5, Living Lazer, among others) with no preamble and that just goes nowhere. Bloody awful!
At the time Simonson comes on, the more egregious elements of Hawkeye looking like Wolverine, and Hellcat like Feral, are unaccountably fixed. But thank God they did it, because Liefeld's sensibility of grafting an X-Men aesthetic onto the Avengers is intolerable. And you know you've got faith in your creations when the real Thor shows up, and the HR Thor (tellingly) dies! This alternate reality is woeful.
The crossover at the end of this book is a retelling of Galactus' coming, and all of the HR heroes introduced from the Avengers, Cap, Iron Man and FF titles are present. But there is no good story development for these characters, and they're just fairly hollow versions of the MU characters.
I can kind of see HR as a precursor to the Ultimate Universe, which is kind of an interesting thought, but that's the only latitude I can give this series. I hope Walt Simonson was paid an enormous amount of money to help course correct this monstrosity of a comic book series.
September 1, 2024
Heroes Reborn: Avengers, calificación 3.5/5 estrellas.
Me gustó el arte de Rob Liefeld, Chap Yae e Ian Churchill. También los números dónde hizo las tramas Rob Liefeld y escribió Loeb.
Pero principalmente lo que más me gustó fue como Hulk derrota a los Avengers fácilmente y sobre todo como humilló a Thor Dios del trueno, cuando este asgariano dejó de pelear con Mjolnir, demostrando así de claro que Hulk Smash.
Esto hizo enojar a los fans de Thor ricitos de oro, los ejecutivos de Marvel pidieron a gritos la salida de Rob Liefeld y su estudio incluidos Loeb y Churchill para traer a Walter Simonson como experto en Thor como escritor y tratar de borrar la paliza a Thor Odison y así fácilmente inventando que no era el Thor original sino un Doppelgänger jajajajaja.
Me gustó el arte de Rob Liefeld, Chap Yae e Ian Churchill. También los números dónde hizo las tramas Rob Liefeld y escribió Loeb.
Pero principalmente lo que más me gustó fue como Hulk derrota a los Avengers fácilmente y sobre todo como humilló a Thor Dios del trueno, cuando este asgariano dejó de pelear con Mjolnir, demostrando así de claro que Hulk Smash.
Esto hizo enojar a los fans de Thor ricitos de oro, los ejecutivos de Marvel pidieron a gritos la salida de Rob Liefeld y su estudio incluidos Loeb y Churchill para traer a Walter Simonson como experto en Thor como escritor y tratar de borrar la paliza a Thor Odison y así fácilmente inventando que no era el Thor original sino un Doppelgänger jajajajaja.
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November 15, 2021
This is truly the worst era of Marvel…but this particular story could’ve been worse.
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