These reviews came way later than I expected them to but I've been crazy busy lately! I've had tons of DVD reviews to do and I even got to work on a short film last weekend! Hopefully it won't be this long before November's reviews get done as I don't want to get too far behind.
The New Avengers 56
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Pencils: Stuart Immonen
Issue 55 left The New Avengers in a bad place with The Hood's Syndicate, now under the leader of Dr. Jonas Harrow. Harrow created a device to take away our Heroes' powers. So when The New Avengers arrived to the fight they all instantly dropped.All but Mockingbird that is, as her powers are skill based. So it's up to her to kick the Wrecking Crew's ass using her teammates' weapons. She holds her own for a while but eventually gets knocked down. Spidey tries to help but gets beat down as well.
Meanwhile Luke Cage seems to be suffering a heart attack!
Spidey is joined by Ronin and together they attempt to fight the Wrecking Crew, but don't fare that well. Finally The Dark Avengers show up, but The Sentry is dropped by Harrow's device. Harrow hacks into Osborne's Iron Patriot suit and gives his demands. He wants the same deal with Norman that The Hood had. Norman doesn't believe him so he then drops the rest of The Dark Avengers. And then to show how much power he really wields, Harrow turns off Iron Patriot and Osborne drops to the street at the Syndicates feet.
Meanwhile, Loki takes The Hood to find The Stones Of Norn to help return his powers to him without him having to rely on a demon like Dormammu.
This episode starts out strong cause you get to see Mockingbird really kick some ass for the first time since her return at the end of Secret Invasion. Immonen's action really makes the sequence flow. Seeing The Sentry collapse and completely become Bob is really creepy, he is tiny and confused and his costume is just falling all over him. The power struggle between Harrow and Osborne is really intense and it's fantastic to see Osborne brought to his knees.
One thing I continue to like about Bendis' work is that he always brings back old forgotten characters and makes them badass. Frankly, I didn't even know who Harrow was and had to look him up online to find out what he was all about. I find myself doing that a lot in Bendis books and I like it.
This a solid comic with a great cliffhanger ending.
The Mighty Avengers 28 – The Unspoken Part 2.
Writers: Dan Slott and Christos N. Gage
Pencils: Khoi Pham
When we last left off an Inhuman called The Unspoken had just laid waste to China's Superheroes. Quicksilver and USAgent realized they would need more help and decided to call the Mighty Avengers.
In this issue the only one to receive the call is Scarlet Witch (who is really Loki, remember) who promptly turns off the monitor screen to deny them help. Too bad Stature sees this happen. So Scarlet Witch casts a spell on Stature preventing her from telling anyone what she's seen. But Stature isn't beat yet as she has a plan.
Meanwhile in China, the Chinese Heroes come to and attack USAgent and Quicksilver thinking that The Unspoken is with them. Luckily, they are able to quickly get past this little understanding.
Elsewhere The Young Avengers return to the ruins of Avengers Mansion to meet up with Stature and Vision. They are obviously butt-hurt about being ditched by their friends, but Stature smoothes things over by inviting them to Hank Pym's new Infinite Avengers Mansion, little do they know that a character hidden in shadow follows after them.
Inside the Mansion Stature tells her teammates that Scarlet Witch has joined up with them and it just so happens that she might be Wiccan and Speed's mother. So Wiccan summons her to their location and what they get is a very pissed off God of Mischief who quickly begins to take them all down. Lucky for them the shadowy figure who followed them turns out to be Ronin who jumps in to help.
So far I haven't been totally blown away with Mighty Avengers since Bendis left. I like it enough to keep reading it, but I hope it starts to get better. I like the idea of Hank Pym finally being a team leader again, as he was a bit a wussy for too long. But the whole Infinite Mansion thing and Jocasta, this robot that Pym seems to be in love with or something is just a little to strange for me. However, I am curious to see what Loki has planned for them, especially now that his cover has been blown.
Dark Avengers 8 – Utopia Chapter Five
Writer: Matt Fraction
Pencils: Luke Ross
As Utopia comes to a close the shit really starts to go down! Dani Moonstar has gone to Las Vegas to get some power. In San Francisco The Dark X-Men are cleaning up the city. On Alcatraz Dark Beast continues to work on his Omega Machine that rids mutants of their powers, but it seems to be a glorified torture machine and Beast isn't doing so well against it. This really upsets the Dark X-Men.
Meanwhile, Beast's team of mutant scientists goes spelunking under the Bay Of Oakland. Why? We're not sure yet, but they do find what they're looking for.
Then the new X-Force team, led by Wolverine, show up in Dark Beast's labs and start messing up the joint hardcore. So The Dark X-Men have no choice but to go up against their former teammates. Elsewhere Scott Summers brings his plan closer to fruition as what they begin to raise what they found under the bay to the surface of the water.
The two X-Teams have a pretty brutal fight but the tide suddenly turns when Emma Frost turns and slams Dakken face first into the ground and Namor takes out Mimic. Then, Frost invites the Dark X-Men to join the good guys. This was all part of Scott's plan. So Frost, Namor, Cloak and Dagger take off with X-Force. In the middle of the bay Osborne is stunned to see Asteroid M float to the surface of the water, now serving as Utopia: Scott Summers' safe haven for all mutants. As one might imagine Osborne is none to happy about this and takes his Dark Avengers in to take out the X-Men once and for all.
The issue ends with Osborne proclaiming: "Bring me Namor's Head and Emma Frost's heart. And Make sure Summers sees you do it."
Utopia has proven to be a very interesting story arc, and seeing a badass plan like Summers' come together is always exciting. The fights are pretty brutal in this issue which is action packed and doesn't let up for a second.
Well, that's it for October. Pretty solid month for Avengers Action. A lot going on, a lot to take in. Can't wait to see what happens next!
See you next time true believers!
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