NEW AVENGERS #62

Review by: akamuu

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WRITER: Brian Michael Bendis
PENCILS: Stuart Immonen & Daniel Acuna
COLORED BY: Dave McCaig
COVER BY: Stuart Immonen

Size: pages
Price: 3.99

All the players are being lined up for the end of The New Avengers, and Bendis has his winking game face on.  Great patter, great action.  Immonen’s art intrigues me.  When Dark Reign started, nearly every title in the Marvel Universe got muddied.  It held for just about all of 2009.  Now that it’s 2010, retro seems to be the style du jour.  Immonen’s New Avengers art would be right at home in The Gauntlet.  If this is a deliberate visual metaphor by Quesada and Bendis, bra-fucken-vo.  In addition to being nice to see the end of the brown color pallaete, the artists on these main books are providing consistently appealing art.  If that’s the status quo for 2010, I’ll be quite happy.

Story: 5 - Excellent
Art: 5 - Excellent
 

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  1. Avatar photo zenman says:
    February 25, 2010 at 9:03 am

    Hmm.  I’m a Bendis fan (and an Avengers fan) but I’m lukewarm on this issue.  It seemed unnecessary (i.e., I don’t see how it advanced the over-arching story in any meaningful way).

  2. Avatar photo akamuu says:
    February 25, 2010 at 12:54 pm

    @zenman: I felt it advanced the plot for those not reading Seige or other titles.  It’s The Avengers coming together and defeating Grog…I mean, the telepathic simian guys.  I can see why someone reading more titles would feel like this issue was treading water.

  3. Avatar photo coltrane68 says:
    February 25, 2010 at 1:56 pm

    I thought this was one of the best things Bendis has done in ages. It was one of the best "gathering the heroes" stories I have ever read, and the Spider-Man/Spider-Woman team-up was just terrific.

  4. Avatar photo zenman says:
    February 25, 2010 at 9:51 pm

    @akamuu – Good point.  I agree with you.  This would have advanced the plot for those not reading Siege or other titles.  Even though I did not rate this issue as a 5 star book, Bendis did certainly deliver some excellent (fun) moments nonetheless.

  5. Avatar photo Crippler says:
    February 27, 2010 at 7:47 pm

    Just to point something out – very few New Avengers issues in the past, oh, year or so, have ‘advanced the story’.  They’re usually full of character moments and lots of dialogue.  Not plot-chewing action.  This was lots of fun. 

  6. Avatar photo GLNancy says:
    February 28, 2010 at 9:57 pm

    @Crippler Mos def, If nick fury shows up then its a party.

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