AGE OF HEROES #1 (OF 4)

Review by: akamuu

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WRITER: Kurt Busiek, Paul Cornell, Rick Remender & Dan Slott
PENCILS: Marko Djurdjevic, Leonard Kirk & Chris Samnee
COVER BY: Greg Tocchini

Size: 40 pages
Price: 3.99

Aw man, I just finished reading Enter The Heroic Age which was just a bunch of short teaser stories, and then I open up Age Of Heroes to discover the same general premise?  I almost put it down immediately.

But I’m glad I didn’t.

Busiek & Djurdjevic’s made this whole issue worth it for me.  Imagine an early Astro City story but about J Jonah Jameson & The Avengers, characters you already know and care about.  Pitch perfect  for me.  I know Marvel would never go for a Busiek style story in Amazing Spider-Man but I wish they’d give him 8 pages in the back of each ASM issue to give us little glimpses into characters the way he does here.  story:5,  art: 5

A Rick Remender writing a story about The Sorceror Supreme, however, is not a way to sell me on anything but putting a book down.  I loved Remender’s Fear Agent, but his Marvel stuff isn’t for me.  I loved his first three issues of Punisher, and nothing else he’s done since.  This, however, was a pleasant, fun little date story about Doctor Voodoo.  And while I wasn’t the audience for it, I didn’t hate it the way I’ve hated Frankencastle, and the nonsense that led up to it.  And Samnee’s Comictwart sketches are usually my favorite, and I enjoyed his work here.  story: 4, art: 4

The other two stories took up a combined total of three pages.  Hey, look it’s the characters from MI—where’d they go?  And the Spidey story took up less space and was less entertaining than the Colgate ads in all of last week’s DC books. Not worth rating.

Story: 4 - Very Good
Art: 4 - Very Good

Comments

  1. The Busiek story was really good, and the contrast between the art in this and the terrible Avengers art in the main book was impossible to miss.

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