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Avengers Volume 3: Prelude To Infinity (2014)

by Jonathan Hickman(Favorite Author)

3.4 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0785166548 (ISBN13: 9780785166542)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Marvel

series

Avengers (Marvel NOW!)

review 1: Some comic books have a plot and decent characters and other good stuff. Others are worthless and have people saying "my hero is a billion times stronger than yours." This book is a prelude to something so the plot of just the book will not completely be what the plot of the series is. The plot of just the book feels incomplete. The art was pretty good (the book was recently published) so this is one aspect of the book I liked. Also the characters seem to have some personality to them.
review 2: This is the third volume of the Marvel Now Avengers series, but you wouldn’t know it from the story. The first three volumes just blur together because, after the initial set-up, nothing ever moves forward. I feel like I have been running in place. The origin bombs... more are causing havoc on Earth and the Avengers are flying all over the planet putting out fires. Only, fighting it isn’t working and so far there’s no sciencing their way out of it either. Yet, the Avengers still “need to get bigger.” Which just means adding the brand new, just created characters of Starbrand, Nightmask and also the ones who apparently caused all the trouble in the first place: Ex Nihilo and Abyss. I agree with other reviewers that all this just seems to be build-up for the Infinity Crossover. But, three volumes of foreplay to finally get to the action is…boring. I just didn’t care at all. This threat is supposed to be more dangerous than any ever faced before. But, the Avengers have faced intergalactic apocalypses before. The difference is how they overcome it but readers aren’t getting that. The best part of the volume, and the only reason I gave it two stars, is the interaction between Thor and Hyperion. Finally, we get a character’s personal perspective on the crisis from a familiar hero (and not Nightmask’s technobabble rambling). I have the Infinity collection which I intend to read next, and I truly hope it resolves this long, drawn-out plot so the writers can do something better with these characters. Because, honestly, The Avengers should be Marvel’s flagship series and currently it sucks. Not recommended - try any of the solo hero series as they are all excellent. less

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