Description: EVERYTHING IS NEW. In the wake of SECRET WARS (2015), the old order changeth - and Bobby DaCosta, Sunspot, is just the man to changeth it. Welcome to AVENGERS IDEA MECHANICS -- a super-scientific global rescue squad of tomorrow's heroes...today! America doesn't want them! S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn't know what to do with them! But Earth might not survive without...the NEW AVENGERS!
Collects:
NEW AVENGERS #1-6
Authors: Al Ewing
Artists:
Gerardo Sandoval
Published By: Marvel
Published
When: May 10 2016
Parental Rating:
Teen
Review:
"New Tech, New Ideas, New Mission, they are the New Avengers"
Everything is new, for this super-team. Including the roster, drawing as it does from a C-list group of heroes. Sunspot, Wiccan, Hulkling, White Tiger, Songbird, Squirrel Girl. You are forgiven if you're now scratching your head and asking, "who?"
This TPB collects and reprints the first six issues of their short-lived, 18-issue 2015 series. And, to its credit, the series embraces the head-scratching roster choices for this group. Each issue reintroduces each character with a one-sentence caption about them. They can range from basic facts ("Songbird, field leader, projects solid sound") to light-hearted and cheeky plot reminders ("Hawkeye, S.H.I.E.L.D. plant, shoots arrows"), to hilarious ("Squirrel Girl, eats walnuts, kicks all butts")
Writer Al Ewing makes a good choice in keeping the tone light and fun, and using those regular introductions to reinforce that feel. At first glance, this group of obscure characters, with their over-reliance on tech gizmos, seems unworthy to carry the name and mantle of 'Avengers', a group with a long and storied history that began in 1963 with some of Marvel's most respected characters.
It's the humor and pacing of Ewing's stories that ultimately makes this a fun collection worth the time and effort. Gerardo Sandoval's art is filled with sharp angles, even on things that ought to be soft and curvy. It does not exactly bolster the lightness of the narrative tone, but plays in contrast, evoking the serious side of their battles against evil.
And they do meet a little evil in their adventures. There's the Neohedron, a scorpion-shaped monster whose stinger shoots a ray that turns people's heads into crystals. And the tentacle-faced Moridun, a dark wizard of the fifth cosmos. And pulling strings in the background is The Maker, alternate-reality evil version of Reed Richards.
In the end, the interplay of light and dark, of jagged art contrasted with glib banter and fun narrative, of discovering new characters, of boundary-pushing with the same-sex relationship and an Avengers-as-outsiders arc, it all won me over. I'll give this TPB 4 out of 5 capes.
ISBN-10: 078519648X
ISBN-13:
978-0785196488
Language: English
Pages:
144 pages
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