MIGHTY AVENGERS #12
Review by: ultimatehoratio
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What if you were watching Law and Order: SVU season six and in the middle of it they suddenly picked up a story line from Law and Order: Criminal Intent season one, which also ties into a Law and Order miniseries that you may or may not be watching? Also, none of the characters that you’ve been following so far are in it.
That’d be mighty jarring, wouldn’t it?
That’s what it’s like reading Mighty Avengers #12. I enjoyed it, yes, but I just don’t know why this book exists.
Story: 2 - Average
Art: 4 - Very Good
Art: 4 - Very Good
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This, I would say, is the episode of your favorite serialized TV show that introduces new characters and exposition that are important to an ongoing plot in the show. You’re looking at a major story arc through the eyes of a character who is very important to the arc, whom we are seeing in this arena for the first time. Nick Fury hasn’t been in this book. The Skrull storyline has, and Fury is a big player in that.
I don’t think that someone who read Mighty Avengers 1-11, but none of that other stuff, would appreciate this at all.
If someone is reading Mighty Avengers, I’d wager that they are reading Secret Invasion or, at the very least, know what’s going on. This isn’t really a jump back to a different storyline, it’s going back to fill in gaps of an already ongoing and detailed story.
Yes, they might be, but they shouldn’t have to.
Mighty Avengers is a title, that seems to cater more to people who are ingrained in what’s going on in the greater Marvel Universe. It tries to be continuity heavy, so it isn’t like they are trying to get this book on the magazine shelves in 7-11s for 8 year olds to pick up. Mighty Avengers is basically a gift from Marvel to Bendis to do what ever he wishes, so I don’t understand the complaint of him interjecting a story that he has clearly planned out and isn’t just coming up with for filler.
Stories involving SHIELD constantly touch on Maria Hill replacing Nick Fury (and Tony later replacing her), so it’s not like this story is out of no where.
This was sort of my take on it as well. It’s a decent story, pretty good issue, but not really a good issue of Mighty Avengers. As an issue of Mighty Avengers, it’s not a good fit. For me, it was a little pitchy, dawg.
This could just as easily have been an issue of New Avengers, or a Secret Invasion: Nick Fury special,
or a dozen other things. That said, I have a feeling it’s going to be hard for MA readers to escape ‘Secret Invasion,’ and possibly other plot threads from this will show up in the MA series. Besides, it’s Bendis & Maleev doing Nick Fury, what’s not to like?
Look, all the Avengers books are all-"Secret Invasion", all the time for the next eight months. That’s your primary crossover right there, and it’s fitting, because that’s where most of this has been going down. All things considered, "Secret Invasion" is far less all-encompassing than a lot of crossovers have been. But the Avengers books have been dealing with Skrulls for the better part of at least six months now, keeping the plot on the back burner, and now it’s going to come up to the forefront of things. Still, admittedly, this story would have been just as well at home, if not moreso, in "New Avengers" as opposed to "Mighty". Still, I can’t imagine anyone who’s reading and liking "The Avengers" who isn’t invested in "Secret Invasion", as it’s been there for a couple of months now.
Bendis hinted that something big was going to happen to Mighty Avenger after Secret Invasion my suspsion is that the big thing is that it will be canceled. I suspect that the mighty avengers won’t be needed post Secret Invasion there will just be the Avengers….
It’s not a case of "event fatigue" or whatever when I pooh-pooh this issue, it’s a matter of voice. Mighty Avengers has had a certain voice for 11 issues, and this was a jarring departure when taking the series as a single work. Tonally, visually, and narratively, it has nothing to do with anything that is Mighty Avengers. If Marvel just published a book called Bendis Weekly where all his titles were mishmashed into one story….
I can certainly see what Jimski means about voice, how it lacks the thought ballons and such, but as far as the actual story, who is reading Mighty Avengers that isn’t caught up on the Civil War fallout that is heavily used in the Secret Invasion stuff. The voice was very different, sure, but the topic and content wasn’t, and shouldn’t be, jarring.
This story did not belong in Mighty Avengers #12 period. Bad decision by Bendis and company.
I think you can argue that this story was a better fit for New Avengers or a Secret Invasion One-Shot special, but it’s just an inaccurate criticism to state definitively that it didn’t belong in Mighty Avengers, "period". Again, we point out that the Skrull Invasion plotline is playing out in both Avengers books, and this issue certainly was about the Skrull Invasion. If this story ran in an issue of "Astonishing X-Men", THEN you could argue that it is completely out of place and doesn’t belong there.
And aside from all this nit-picking… it’s a hell of a good issue.