AVENGERS ARENA #1
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Art by Kev Walker
Colors by Frank Martin
Cover by Dave Johnson, Mike Perkins, & Skottie Young
Size: 0 pages
Price: 2.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
Full disclosure: I read Avengers Academy, Runaways, Young Avengers, Young Allies, New Mutants, Darkhawk, X-23 and Drax the Destroyer. I have history with every one of these characters that isn't newly minted. I like teen heroes, in part because I like to see the process of finding your feet play out. Mostly, though, stories about teen heroes aren't about "finding your feet," they're about spinning your wheels. Characters never grow or advance. They are trapped in the same place, forever.
If nothing else, this book with shake that up. These characters have to change, or they will die. In many cases, they will change and they will die anyway. And that's okay, because they're comic book characters. The only thing that matters, to me, is that every death is earned, that every death is part of a larger story and a larger arc for that character, and the other characters in the story.
So far, Hopeless is one for one. The character who dies in this issue not only earns it, he earns it by being true to who he is. He dies because it's exactly the thing he would do, in that situation, and (from a writer's standpoint) because it will have interesting effects on the people who survive. If it was someone we didn't care about, we wouldn't care. But we do, and so do the people in this world. He gets a good send-off, as well as some great moments early in the issue. For a fictional character, that's better than limbo (which is where most of these characters would have gone, otherwise).
This is a good start, and if every character death is as well done as the first one, it will be a memorable experience.
It's not perfect: Arcade's deus ex machine power level seems off (though I'm sure that will be explained), and there is one page transition that lost me. On the whole, though, it was one of the better comics I read this week.
Story: 4 - Very Good
Art: 4 - Very Good
Art: 4 - Very Good
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