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The Mighty Avengers, Vol. 4: Secret Invasion, Vol. 2 (2009)

by Brian Michael Bendis(Favorite Author)

3.29 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0785136495 (ISBN13: 9780785136491)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

Marvel Comics Group

series

The Mighty Avengers

review 1: The main Secret Invasion series was bombastic, fight-heavy, and read like Cliff's Notes, so I enjoyed what this series did with the event. Instead of mirroring and expanding the main events, like The New Avengers did, this book told backstories in each issue. The stories that focused on Elektra and Captain Marvel were uninteresting, the stories that focused on Nick Fury were decent, and the stories that focused on Hank Pym were really good. Pym's was potentially the most interesting story in Secret Invasion (both pre- and post-) so I could have done with even more. But I'll take what I can get.
review 2: This set of Secret Invasion side-stories gives single issues to Elektra, Nick Fury and his Secret Warriors (they pick up this name later), and Marvel Boy, and ... moretwo separate issues to Hank Pym. For those keeping track, only one of these characters (Pym) is a member of the Mighty Avengers team. Whatever. This jumble of characters and stories adds some interesting bits to the overall story, though only the Nick Fury story helps explain the main story. Bendis has a really good handle on the tragedy of Hank Pym--both his stories relish in his troubles dealing with his huge ego and intellect. Pym may have been better suited for Iron Man's role in Civil War, though he's long been the smart yet flawed Avenger that's easily toppled by Captain America. Now having two defeated geniuses amongst the Avengers feels a bit redundant. less

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