About this title: The powerhouse team of Brian Michael Bendis and David Finch take on Earth's Mightiest Heroes! It begins with the return of a team member thought dead - and by the time it's over, everything you know about the Avengers will have changed! The event that will rock the entirety of the Marvel Universe starts here! This work collects "Avengers" Nos. 500-503 and "Avengers Finale".
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"After a great start, it seemed that Bendis and Co. just let the story trickled down. Good way to end a legendary super-hero team book, but not a great way to do it."
"I can count Bendis as the bloke who brought me back into mainstream comic-dom - albeit in a tentative, choosy sort of way. (Hey, allow a guy to be picky here.) After his ground-breaking work producing his own black-and-white crime noir work - Jinx, Goldfish, and Powers all come readily to mind as flawless modern masterpieces in this genre - Marvel apparently made him several offers he couldn't refuse. (Okay, Powers was his first full-color series - of you're going to fact-check.) As a result of being groomed as their new "golden child", Bendis turned Daredevil into one of the best comics in the past decade, and (re)introduced a second-stringer in Alias - a true superhero-turned-detective title that reads more like an HBO drama series than your traditional superhero rag. And from there, he was offered the reins of the World's Mightiest Heroes.
Although his style is best likened to a Quentin Tarantino-David Mamet hybrid on the four-color page, his first Avengers run with Avengers Disassembled is not Bendis at his best - at least not yet. His Tony Stark/Iron Man seems ridiculously over-the-top (for Bendis), and his inability to juggle the distinct personalities of the many main and supporting characters simply ends up washing all of them out. In the end, none of these long-established characters seem fully realized -- as he was able to do with Matt Murdock and Co. in Daredevil, if not with Jessica Jones and Co. in Alias.
As for Finch's art, I thoroughly enjoy his angles and momentum. But I could do without all those superfluous lines and muscles that don't really exist. (An unfortunate downside to bad comic art is that.) And let's not forget his puckered lips on Tony Stark that makes you think he's perpetually sucking on a lemon. Finch would be a much better artist if he simplified his forms a la John Cassady of Astonishing X-Men fame - or even Alex Maleev or Michael Gaydos during Bendis' run on Daredevil and Alias, for that matter.
But on an up-note, this initial story-arc begins a great era in Bendis' current bifurcated work interweaving the plot-lines of The New Avengers and The Mighty Avengers - a schism of biblical proportions, if you want to be dramatic about it. In short, the best is yet to come."
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