This one… this one is a beast. Just months before New Avengers started, Joss Whedon succeeded Grant Morrison as the preeminent X-Men writer. Another “big” Hollywood get for Marvel. At the time,…
Tag: Brian Michael Bendis
New Avengers 10
John Dell and Laura Martin pitch in on inks and colors, respectively, this month, and those are some really talented pinch hitters to get. Should keep the book looking smooth despite the…
New Avengers 08
That late 90s Sentry logo looks pretty dated on these 2005 covers. A lot has changed in a little time. This one opens with a fun surprise: They lured Sal out of…
New Avengers 07
It’s time to officially recruit the Sentry into the ranks. And who’s that other guy??? That… is a whole thing, to be discussed at a later date. Art duties for this arc…
New Avengers 06
Time to wrap up this team’s first adventure. We open on Spider-Woman yelling at Yelena from the distance that she’s really messing up, that Spider-Woman is a Level 7 SHIELD agent, that…
New Avengers 05
The way Jim Lee and his followers insist muscular men have these deformed, huge wrists is very funny to me. Like it’s Lee making a peculiar drawing choice, and then a literal…
New Avengers 04
“Why don’t women read comics? We just don’t know!” This month begins with Jessica Drew arriving at Stark Tower as Tony is talking to Maria Hill, acting head of SHIELD after what…
New Avengers 03
There he is, Marvel’s Superman. Or as close as he’s ever gonna get to it, at least. Well, we open on the SHIELD helicarrier early the next morning. Cap and Iron Man…
New Avengers 02
That’s a strong composition on that cover. Well. We’re right at the end of last issue. Spidey and Cap see Electro take his still-unseen passenger out of the prison on a wave…
New Avengers 01
The breakup of the Avengers was serious. The book stayed off the shelf for months to really show the impact of the team being dissolved. Just kidding, this issue came out the…