AVENGERS PRIME #1 (OF 5)
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PENCILS: ALAN DAVIS
INKS: MARK FARMER
COLORED BY: JAVIER RODRIGUEZ
LETTERED BY: NEUROTIC CARTOONIST, INC
COVER BY: ALAN DAVIS
Size: 40 pages
Price: 3.99
The Big Three were never my Avengers. I came to The Avengers during the West Coast era, and then fell out completely until Bendis’s New Avengers. So the prospect of reuniting The Big Three didn’t particularly excite me. I also didn’t enjoy Bendis’s Avengers #1 at all. But this book won me over. Once I got past The Iron Simian (3.8 armor), there wasn’t anything in this book I didn’t love.
Alan Davis’s art always makes me want to go my bookshelf and reread Excalibur (it ain’t for the Claremont stories). In fact, I was a little sad that Widget didn’t appear in this comic. But I got over it. There were some fantastic panel layouts here.
What I loved most about this is that is the antithesis of the Putting The Team Together comics that iFanboy’s Big Three seem to love. Pulling The Team Apart books are guilty pleasures for me, and finally seeing a hint of the post-Civil War Steve Rogers/Tony Stark dynamic now that Seige is over pleased me quite a bit.
Art: 4 - Very Good
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I can’t wait to read this now
Akamuu, you seem to be a veteran of the comic world, so let me ask you this: is paying $4 for 22 pages of actual comic art/script normal? To me this book seemed to contain too many advertisements to completely win me over; I found that I got pulled out of the story at times. I agree the story was very good, and the art was also, but I had to give it a three simply because of the presentation. Another solid review though.
@Psymin: Yes, sadly, the $3.99 for a regular 22 page, ad-filled comic seems to be becoming more and more acceptable. I was under the impression that Disney intended to have Marvel drop the price from $3.99 to $2.99, but I haven’t seen any indication of that coming to fruition.
I’ve grown mostly ad blind (except for that fucken awful INFERNO two page spread that was in every comic I read for….six months…three hundred years, I lost track). And, I have a slightly warped perspective on ads because I *don’t* pay for issues. I read them just after I put them up on the shelves (I work in a comic book store). If I like them, I buy them when they come out in trade, which is always ad free.
@DenverDave: What did you think?
It should be noted that we did get a reprint in addition to the story. While just a rehashing of the origin of the Avengers, it had some mighty sweet Walt Simonson art. I have got to go and get the rest of his Thor run (i own the second half).