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NEW AVENGERS #5

With everything on the line, Wolverine volunteers to make the ultimate sacrifice to save our dimension. Magic is being reinvented in the Marvel Universe and it is happening here!!

Plus: another chapter in the oral history of the Avengers!

WRITER: BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
PENCILS: STUART IMMONEN
INKS: WADE VON GRAWBADGER
COLORED BY: LAURA JEAN MARTIN
LETTERED BY: NEUROTIC CARTOONIST, INC
COVER BY: STUART IMMONEN

Price: $3.99
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  1. zattaric zattaric says:
    October 11, 2010 at 3:11 pm

    That is the most ridiculous cover EVER.  I can’t help but laugh.

  2. vadamowens vadamowens says:
    October 11, 2010 at 3:15 pm

    @zattaric That’s saying alot.

  3. JimBilly4 JimBilly4 says:
    October 11, 2010 at 4:26 pm

    Yeah, throw in the banner and the Cap corner Icon and that is truly a Marvel trainwreck of an image. All I need is to see Spider-man dodging lasers from Dr. Doom in the background and I could stop reading comics forever.

  4. OttoBott OttoBott says:
    October 11, 2010 at 5:28 pm

    @Jimbilly – your knee-jerk response to train wrecks and my knee-jerk response to train wrecks are almost completely opposite.

  5. RoiVampire RoiVampire says:
    October 11, 2010 at 5:37 pm

    I’ve seen way worse covers than wolverine with an iron fist symbol on his chest and a magic eye in his forehead

  6. edward edward says:
    October 11, 2010 at 5:58 pm

    Great art. painful story. Angry and confused Edward

  7. MountNJ says:
    October 11, 2010 at 7:14 pm

    Thinking about setting aside the Avengers books for awhile… well, at least Bendis’s ones for a bit.

  8. Nordh Nordh says:
    October 11, 2010 at 7:52 pm

    Hahah I’m sorry but that’s awesome :D

  9. ABirdseysView ABirdseysView says:
    October 11, 2010 at 9:08 pm

    I don’t quite remember, but didn’t people enjoy seeing Cap with a Nova helmet?  if so, how is Wolverine harnessing his chi using the power of the Iron Fist any different?

  10. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:
    October 11, 2010 at 9:28 pm

    This cover really bespeaks everything I don’t like about Wolverine. :-p 

  11. Andrew Andrew says:
    October 11, 2010 at 10:31 pm

    JimBilly, you mean like the cover for Amazing Spider-Man #5?

  12. PozrDu PozrDu says:
    October 11, 2010 at 11:42 pm

    Help me, Stuart Immonen.  You’re my only hope.

  13. JesseG JesseG says:
    October 12, 2010 at 12:10 am

    Is there a version of this comic without the retarded oral history of the Avengers? Every time I read it I feel like shooting myself in the head. 

  14. j206 j206 says:
    October 12, 2010 at 2:48 am

    Is the Heroic Age banner ever going away? Or are we stuck with it until the next themed status quo?

  15. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:
    October 12, 2010 at 3:35 am

    @JesseG: Don’t read it?

  16. CaseyJustice CaseyJustice says:
    October 12, 2010 at 9:25 am

    Man, I’m still having a blast with this book. New Avengers in definately my Avengers of choice.

  17. misterckent misterckent says:
    October 12, 2010 at 1:18 pm

    I’m having fun with this too.  I wish there were more ways to use magic in the Marvel U.  I think this did a great job and I hope to see more!

  18. Franktiger Franktiger says:
    October 12, 2010 at 2:38 pm

    Man am I glad Wolverine is an Avenger, gives me a chance to see him wield the power of the mystic arts!

  19. JimBilly4 JimBilly4 says:
    October 12, 2010 at 8:03 pm

    @Andrew Yes, tuck ASM #5 in under Wolvie’s left arm and it would have some much Marvel stuff on it my mind would explode.

    I guess I am just still astonished that Wolverine on the cover increases sales, a truism for going on 25 years now. How many bad comics (not this one, mind you) have had Wolverine on the cover? Especially now that he is in every comic anyway?

  20. JesseG JesseG says:
    October 12, 2010 at 10:33 pm

    @conor- I poop therefore I read. 

  21. ScorpionMasada ScorpionMasada says:
    October 12, 2010 at 11:06 pm

    Easily in my top five superhero books that I’m currently reading since the series started.

  22. kcekada says:
    October 12, 2010 at 11:14 pm

    Wolverine — bah! Logan, if you must be one more than one team, at least contain yourself to one Avengers book.

     What’s the deal, Bendis?!

  23. CaseyJustice CaseyJustice says:
    October 13, 2010 at 11:30 am

    I feel like this whole arc is a "getting the team together" kinda thing, and that half of these cats won’t be around after this story. I hope.

  24. kndoubleu kndoubleu says:
    October 13, 2010 at 4:55 pm

    @CaseyJustice That’s exactly what Bendis said would happen, and Clint is already out. And this issue was very strong. Both Bendis Avengers books are the kind of self-contained arcs that we were proised with the Heroic Age.

  25. ScorpionMasada ScorpionMasada says:
    October 13, 2010 at 7:39 pm

    Hawkeye can pick up cars?

    Loved the issue.

  26. wulfstone wulfstone says:
    October 14, 2010 at 3:43 am

    Art is nice, story is twaddle

  27. Truthseeker Truthseeker says:
    October 14, 2010 at 10:50 am

    I thought the same thing. Since when is Hawkeye strong enough to pick up a car?

  28. MisterJ says:
    October 14, 2010 at 2:20 pm

    Not just pick up, but lift up the very car that apparently crushed him! 

    Since this arc has dealt with Voodoo, Strange, and Damon Hellfire, I will invoke the words of Joey Q, ‘It’s magic, we don’t have to explain it.’

    That remains an unsatisfying answer

  29. Bryce31 Bryce31 says:
    October 14, 2010 at 4:58 pm

    Since when can Hawkeye lift cars?

     Did I miss something? 

  30. ScorpionMasada ScorpionMasada says:
    October 14, 2010 at 6:12 pm

    Someone is going to come in here and explain this with some little known fact about Hawkeye like he used some super soldier serum or something.

  31. AquaPimp82 AquaPimp82 says:
    October 14, 2010 at 6:47 pm

    My favorite Avengers books are the ones Bendis isn’t writing.

  32. OttoBott OttoBott says:
    October 15, 2010 at 1:38 am

    I figured Hawkeye got the super strength from that bionic-looking arm he borrowed from Cable. Y’know…since Cable isn’t using it. 

  33. ericmci ericmci says:
    October 15, 2010 at 9:33 pm

    Does anyone know who is actually responsible for approving across the books art items like that damn banner at Marvel?

    The person’s name?

     

     

     

  34. tazz says:
    October 16, 2010 at 2:33 am

    Loving this title, but is anyone finding "the Oral History of The Avengers" entertaining ??  I think its a damn bore..I try to read it and finish it, but its a chore every time.

  35. Malecema Malecema says:
    October 16, 2010 at 12:47 pm

    Best issue yet.  Somebody needs to make a couple of clones of Immonen so he can draw more books. 

  36. Franktiger Franktiger says:
    October 17, 2010 at 5:43 am

    Oh, so that’s where Hawkeye was all this time after he just mysteriously disappeared after issue 1, how convenient; and it was nice of his teammates, esp Mockingbird, to just leave him under that car where he’s been chilling all this time, good job in covering your tracks Bendis!

    Don’t worry, I guess Spidey and Wolvie get the Avengers Priority Emergency call later on, so they can join the other Avengers team, in between Wolvie getting the X-Men Priority Emergency call so that he can go turn into a vampire.

  37. edward edward says:
    October 17, 2010 at 5:25 pm

    Fucking magic. Crazy lights coming out of a character’s funny hand gestures isn’t entertaining. It’s a meaningless story device.

     

    Someone’s got to tell bendis to get he’s act together  

  38. Malecema Malecema says:
    October 18, 2010 at 11:52 am

    @Edward:  so are superpowers if you want to look at it that way.

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