jammasterjamie's review against another edition
3.0
The Avengers stuff is all great and Hickman has always been really lucky with the artists he's gotten to work with over the years, and this was a clear-cut four star book and a really strong beginning to what looks like is going to be an exciting run of comics to get into, but there's a but here as you can see from the fact that I just called this a four star book, but have only given it three stars, and that all falls to Sam and Bobby's adventures in the Mojoverse. Cannonball and Sunspot are lifelong favourite characters of mine, but this entire segment just didn't work for me at all. It doesn't help that I've always found Mojo stories to be obnoxious, but this was almost offensive in how unfunny it was, and jarringly unexpected compared to the levels and heights in the main stories that made up the rest of this volume. I just don't think it needed to be included and I kind of wish it hadn't have been.
jammasterjamie's review against another edition
4.0
Some great big superhero fun, occasionally poignant, with spectacularly rendered art throughout. This is all clearly leading somewhere crazy and I'm glad to be along for the ride.
jammasterjamie's review against another edition
4.0
I've read Hickman's 'Infinity' collection before and I have to say that the added context that comes in this volume by interweaving that story with what was going on in the main Avengers titles at the same time made the whole thing a lot more enjoyable and filled in a lot of missing gaps, and now that I think about it, the same can be said for a whole lot of the missing information I needed when reading 'Avengers World: The Complete Jonathan Hickman Collection' as well. After reading this big, fun-filled sucker, it all finally makes sense.
Here's something that's kind of a spoiler but not really: At one point towards the end, Manifest complains to Cap about how exhausted he is from the last world-ending battle and how he doesn't understand where they're supposed to get the energy to run immediately into the next fight, and Cap explains that there's nothing special about them and that The Hero's Journey is a myth and that fighting the never-ending battle is simply what they do because it's there to be done, and then literally two pages later Manifest is talking to Thor who gives an inspirational speech about fate and how their entire lives had led up to this moment. It was just a really cute and sardonic moment of great comic book logic and character motivation and it made me laugh.
Here's something that's kind of a spoiler but not really: At one point towards the end, Manifest complains to Cap about how exhausted he is from the last world-ending battle and how he doesn't understand where they're supposed to get the energy to run immediately into the next fight, and Cap explains that there's nothing special about them and that The Hero's Journey is a myth and that fighting the never-ending battle is simply what they do because it's there to be done, and then literally two pages later Manifest is talking to Thor who gives an inspirational speech about fate and how their entire lives had led up to this moment. It was just a really cute and sardonic moment of great comic book logic and character motivation and it made me laugh.
jammasterjamie's review against another edition
4.0
It's probably not a huge spoiler to let you know that the Avengers save the planet multiple times in this volume because that's kind of what they do, and really, that’s not what this story is about. This is about the cost of being a hero and the compromises forced upon them on their journeys to the point where the very definition of what a hero is and what separates them from villainy really is, and how that line can run dangerously thin.
ubergusterfan's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
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