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Secret Avengers, Vol. 1: Reverie (2000)

by Nick Spencer(Favorite Author)

3.25 of 5 Votes: 5

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Secret Avengers (Marvel NOW!)

review 1: The idea behind the series has some definite promise. Hawkeye and Black Widow have been tapped to go on SHIELD missions so deeply classified that they themselves can't be allowed to remember what they did afterward. They've both been fit with memory implants that will erase more than just the memory of the specific missions they work, but also the memory that they go on these secret missions at all. It sounds like a great way to use Natasha's skill set, which is what drew me to it.The problem is execution. None of the missions are terribly interesting, the characters are given no time to do anything but espionage and battle, and I'm not thrilled with the overarching AIM plot. And it lacks enough convincing details for me to buy it, honestly. It gets worse once the team exp... moreands. I would have been far happier if Spencer had just stuck with Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Nick Fury, Jr. Then they add Mockingjay. Which, fine, her skills fit the concept. But Hulk? By the end of the book, it was starting to feel like the concept was slipping away, which is a shame. That concept was the single best thing about the book.
review 2: This starts out with such an interesting premise (agents performing missions for SHIELD but will then have their memories wiped later for security reasons) and there's so much about where that could go that I find interesting. But the book itself never follows up. It basically uses it as an excuse to be a mess of storytelling. It's never entirely clear what is supposed to be going on, and the intention could be to build up mystery for a reveal later on, but mostly it just seems like they're avoiding having to come up with logical reasons for why the characters are doing things.Also, the art is pretty bad too. All the female characters appear to have the same body shape (thin waist, massive breasts), Black Widow is continually shown in a way that makes her breasts prominent with a zipper impractically far down (to the point where I think she must have some impressively strong Hollywood tape to stay in that thing when fighting) and in my "favourite" panel, her butt is incredibly defined by the light while the guy standing next to her seems to have a butt that draws in all light because there is pretty much nothing but black there at all. (I also showed this panel to a friend who is an artist and she pointed out how the lighting used in the panel made absolutely no sense). Oh, and two female characters with short hair were drawn so similarly that I had trouble differentiating them if they weren't referred to by name. And my comics knowledge is not great, but I'm pretty certain they had about a 20 year difference in age, and were of different races. less

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