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Avengers Arena, Vol. 1: Kill Or Die (2013)

by Dennis Hopeless(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0785166572 (ISBN13: 9780785166573)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Marvel

series

Avengers Arena and Avengers Undercover

review 1: This series is emotionally manipulative but... God, that's what makes it GOOD. It helps that I went into this with no background on any of the characters, so I am not overly inverted in who "wins" this thing... That being said, I am growing to love them all (except you, Captain Brit clone) and the deaths are getting all the more painful! So yeah... Manipulative, but good. Like The Walking Dead - anyone could die and you will be back for the next issue nonetheless.
review 2: Well the writing isn't bad and I like the art style, but that's just not enough. This premise is ridiculous and Marvel is just riding the Hunger Games wave, which they acknowledge at least, and the result is stupid story that has no place in the Marvel universe. For starters, why is this eve... moren an Avengers title? Almost none of these kids are in training to be an Avenger. Let's see what's next; oh ya, how the hell am I supposed to believe that some C-list villain was capable of taking all these kids without any trouble? On that note, where am I supposed to believe these kids are taken that they haven't been found in a matter of days by the real Avengers? Also, I don't know more than half these characters, so when they act like total dicks (which half them do) I find it hard to care for their safety. And even if all these things I've listed weren't true, this story would still suck, because throughout six issues virtually nothing has happened at all, each issue is 50% flashbacks because the author knows that nobody has any idea who these kids are! And lastly, I don't think I want these kids to grow up to be heroes if they give up on being the good guys this easily. If the avengers were ever put in a situation like this, where no matter what they couldn't escape, they would fight alongside each other until no one was left, not turn on each other. A much better idea would have been to create a Lord of the Flies like scenario on some distant world where the kids start turn on each other naturally. And while I'm talking about Lord of the Flies, the homage cover from issue #2 is a disgrace, because this story has noting at all in common with such a memorable and magnificent book.P.S. I love the Runaways like crazy, so seeing Niko and Chase in this exploitative piece angers me to my bones, they deserve so much better then this crap. less

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