The first of
Marvel’s new line of Original Graphic Novels. The premise for those books is to
be more in line with the films. This isn’t really new, because Marvel’s been
going the route for almost 2 twos now with its Marvel NOW! line of books. If
Marvel wanted this line-up to be more like the Avengers movie, then they failed
as Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers), Wolverine, and a human version of Jarvis
aren’t a part of the Avengers Initiative.
In this book,
when a strange looking drone crashed in Central Europe, it appears that the
past has caught up once again with Captain America and Thor. In a strange twist
it seems that during World War II, the two heroes separately conducted acts
that created a hybrid race of Asgardian dragon- robot men.
I wasn’t such a
fan of this book. There’s lots of great banter, like when Hawkeye keeps trying
to fly the Quinjet and when he finally succeeds, he sings “Flyingggg the
Quintjetttt!” However, there’s this good solider/ bad soldier motif that just
takes away from a potentially good Avengers story. I never realized until after
this book how many ex-soldiers are members of the Avengers, where the JLA is
mostly civilians.
The lack of
espionage is perhaps the biggest downer of this book. SHIELD is mentioned often
as being against the Avengers mission to destroy this hybrid creatures, yet the
organization nor Nick Fury don’t appear in this book at all. Clark Gregg, who
portrays Agent Phil Coulson in the films and the SHIELD TV series pens the book’s
forward, yet he doesn’t even factor in this book either.
I really like what Marvel’s doing in its comic
books. But in terms of this new graphic novel series, I’m not so much a fan.
True, this is the first book, technically the pilot and pilots tend to suck.
So, the jury is still out. But, Marvel better wow me with its next offering or
I might be avoiding their OGN altogether.
Rating: 5 out of
10 stars.
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