tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392489189136721402.post7477636543822672777..comments2024-01-13T13:40:31.385+00:00Comments on TOO DANGEROUS FOR A GIRL!: Avengers #3 reviewMartin Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09574149543260175962noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392489189136721402.post-32654546453109682182013-01-26T09:21:16.239+00:002013-01-26T09:21:16.239+00:00I can see the boredom reaction, I had that with Hi...I can see the boredom reaction, I had that with Hickman's Avengers and FF. I can see myself dropping the Illuminati book if things don't get more exciting soon - lectures and graphs get tedious quickly. <br /><br />I never liked Morbius, maybe I'll download it. Martin Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09574149543260175962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392489189136721402.post-6139781748614757132013-01-26T03:05:07.985+00:002013-01-26T03:05:07.985+00:00Oh dear god, this comic is just so draining! I ca...Oh dear god, this comic is just so draining! I cannot believe between this issue and New Avengers #2 that I was starting to fall asleep reading them. These comics are just so frickin' boring! Despite everything going on in them, they are putting me to sleep with it tedious dialogue and lackluster action (Boring artwork between both of them isn't helping either). I cannot muster energy read these things! This is a first for me while reading a comic where they actually exhaust me. I can't continue with this both Avengers titles, I'm just giving up. I still got good old fun and energic Avengers Assemble to feed my Avengers fix at least (read the latest issue and that was a ton of a fun).<br /><br />Anyhow, I did recently read the first issue of Morbius: The Living Vampire and was shockingly enjoyable. Did you give it a shot?Information Geekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15397150034120296016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392489189136721402.post-907913540396677752013-01-25T14:14:57.007+00:002013-01-25T14:14:57.007+00:00That 'Avengers World' line was cringeworth...That 'Avengers World' line was cringeworthy, yes, Colin. And upcoming solicitations indicate that the idea, whatever it is, is A Thing<br /><br />In happier news, I loved FF#3 this week!Martin Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09574149543260175962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392489189136721402.post-71063732410452324422013-01-25T14:11:05.415+00:002013-01-25T14:11:05.415+00:00"Captain Deus Ex Machina!" - Heh :)
Cra..."Captain Deus Ex Machina!" - Heh :)<br /><br />Cracking review, Mart. I wish I had something significant to add beyond clapping from the gallery. But there is a terrible complacency at work here, and I thought that was something which Marvel had been working to correct. As you say, newcomers - or even folks who may have forgotten single panels in previous issues - will inevitably suffer here.<br /><br />There's also a terribly portentous air about proceedings. Rather than managing to build up the sense that Great Big Events are underway, it ended up alienating me with the self-proclaimed importance of it all. It's an odd choice of tone on JH's part, given that he's shown in Manhattan Projects that he can be as grounded - and funny! - as any great 2000AD writer when it comes to cosmic matters. I ended these issues feeling that somebody was shouting outside in the street that IMPORTANT THINGS ARE HAPPENING. But it was hard to care, for the reasons you mention, and so I didn't believe it. <br /><br />Oh, and Captain America's declaration that Earth is special because it's "an Avengers world"? What does that mean, and why should we feel that this cadre of super-people are so very special that the rest of the Cosmos comes second to them? Dear me, but that's an unpleasant cocktail of ideas threatening to burst out ...Colin Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15246781681702128600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392489189136721402.post-69693015124702646952013-01-25T13:19:16.142+00:002013-01-25T13:19:16.142+00:00Great stuff, thanks Snell. It's still a tad we...Great stuff, thanks Snell. It's still a tad weak - what if it had been a male Captain Universe this time?Martin Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09574149543260175962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392489189136721402.post-72085615271662402272013-01-25T04:36:14.526+00:002013-01-25T04:36:14.526+00:00Mart, if you go back and re-read #2, you see'l...Mart, if you go back and re-read #2, you see'll from the orogin of our baddies that they came from a race that "worshipped the Goddess, the Mother-maker herself, THE UNIVERSE." So there was some set-up for their being so subservient to her.snellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06181997862745538999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392489189136721402.post-69193974755805286832013-01-25T03:59:56.672+00:002013-01-25T03:59:56.672+00:00Mantis is one of my all time favorite Avengers. Th...Mantis is one of my all time favorite Avengers. That said, I will agree that no one ever quite got a handle on her the way Steve Englehart did.Ben Hermanhttp://benjaminherman.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392489189136721402.post-23942035358615727002013-01-25T03:57:36.915+00:002013-01-25T03:57:36.915+00:00Captain Universe should be given a new name: Capta...Captain Universe should be given a new name: Captain Deus Ex Machina!Ben Hermanhttp://benjaminherman.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392489189136721402.post-31886610589110382402013-01-23T22:39:24.162+00:002013-01-23T22:39:24.162+00:00Blimey, another fan of the Harras/Epting era - let...Blimey, another fan of the Harras/Epting era - let's have matching jackets made!<br /><br />Stern/Byrne really was a magical time. Martin Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09574149543260175962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392489189136721402.post-20049459652524289672013-01-23T22:34:49.151+00:002013-01-23T22:34:49.151+00:00I've no idea where I saw it now; I'm sure ...I've no idea where I saw it now; I'm sure it was on the internet.<br /> My favourite periods of the Avengers are probably the Michelinie/Byrne issues or the Harras/Epting era. So: two or three of the Lee/Kirby team on hand plus three or four characters who are fairly exclusive to the Avengers comic. If Hickman had gone with Cap, Thor, Iron Man, Hawkeye, Shang-Chi, Manifold and Captain Universe I would have been totally behind it.Dougiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03965448821892833703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392489189136721402.post-46899674612223440172013-01-23T20:51:40.437+00:002013-01-23T20:51:40.437+00:00What a great summation, Dougie. Who wrote that? My...What a great summation, Dougie. Who wrote that? My perfect Avengers is pre-200, a decent-sized mix of heroes living and visiting the mansion, and occasionally bashing Kang before Jarvis serves tea. Martin Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09574149543260175962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392489189136721402.post-45777842931732960252013-01-23T20:37:33.529+00:002013-01-23T20:37:33.529+00:00I really wanted to like this comic as an Avengers ...I really wanted to like this comic as an Avengers fan since about, oh, 1967, when my mother read Power Comics to me. But it's a big, sci-fi thing so far with echoes of G-S X-Men 1 ( I haven't got #3 yet- I live in a remote area, according to Michael Portillo in BBC2 tonight)<br /><br />The best description I ever read of Avengers was "Workplace Drama with lifers and temps". Add " with occasional cosmic jaunts and torrid interpersonal conflict" and that is the comic I want to read. I think Hickman would be better suited to the JLA.Dougiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03965448821892833703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392489189136721402.post-45847593846234906302013-01-23T19:41:50.484+00:002013-01-23T19:41:50.484+00:00I'm now remembering Triathlon. Brrrrr.
I dun...I'm now remembering Triathlon. Brrrrr. <br /><br />I dunno though, pet characters can work, such as the Vision under Roy Thomas and Mantis under Steve Englehart, as it were. Martin Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09574149543260175962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392489189136721402.post-61019556475695614942013-01-23T19:33:51.850+00:002013-01-23T19:33:51.850+00:00It did when it started; but now? I saw that film t...It did when it started; but now? I saw that film twice and I don't remember Spider-Woman ;-)<br /> Hickman obviously wants to write about a number of characters, including his own creation, Manifold, the modern Gateway (twice over, apparently). As we know, he is in a tradition, therefore, of Avengers writers bringing in "one-trick pony characters": Mantis, Rage, Deathcry and Silverclaw, for example. As you said yourself, however, this over-populated approach is not reader -friendly and personally, I find the portentous tv-sci-fi "voice" off-putting. Dougiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03965448821892833703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392489189136721402.post-31641024559954085872013-01-23T18:30:13.552+00:002013-01-23T18:30:13.552+00:00Maybe Hickman never wanted to write such a collect...Maybe Hickman never wanted to write such a collection of characters. Doesn't Avengers Assemble pretty much fit that brief?Martin Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09574149543260175962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392489189136721402.post-82820306431234052292013-01-23T18:27:59.123+00:002013-01-23T18:27:59.123+00:00I had a feeling from 1& 2 that this was going ...I had a feeling from 1& 2 that this was going to be a show-offy comic with 80s-style literary pretensions. I am not won over by its clinical tone or bizarre pick'n'mix cast of obscurities (allegedly in the cause of diversity.) <br /><br />Why is this not a comic about the characters from the movie? A weird marketing decision. Dougiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03965448821892833703noreply@blogger.com