Post by goldenfist on Jan 29, 2009 0:48:52 GMT -5
Read what Ign.com had to say about New Avengers #49.
So let's get this out of the way immediately: New Avengers #49 feels like, in many respects, a filler issue — the bane of many comic readers' existence. It sets up the next major development for the series, ties up a dangling plot thread from Secret Invasion, and, beyond that, achieves little in terms of developing new plot threads for the future.
Of course, a filler issue of New Avengers is still better than 90% of the mainstream comics out there, and this installment is no exception. Bendis proves, once again, that even his transitionary issues are still worthy of praise and emulation.
As you'd probably anticipate, this issue picks up where the last one left off, with Luke Cage having sold his soul to the Marvel Universe's present devil-in-chief Norman Osborn, in return for Osborn's assistance in finding Cage's child. The issue resolves, at least for the time being, the fate of the child, and primes the audience for the already-advertised showdown next issue between Avengers Dark and New.
It also provides Bendis with an opportunity to remind us, lest we forget, just how bad-ass the former Power Man is. What's even more impressive, though, is that before and after his displays of superhuman fortitude, Bendis allows Cage to be a mere human being; a husband and father in awe of love he feels for his family and fully conscious of the responsibility that love entails.
The final pages of the issue reunite many of the New Avengers, as well as some of their other superheroic cohorts, at the home of Captain America. In this scene, Bendis includes some strong character beats through the dialogue, and takes the opportunity to pontificate on the overarching theme of Dark Reign. Namely, that when a crisis occurs there is always someone ready to take nefarious advantage of the populaces' desire to be saved.
As the team gathers around the television set to watch Osborn's press conference, as depicted in last week's Dark Avengers, you can practically here the guitar squall from the Who's classic, "Won't Get Fooled Again" rising in the background. Okay, maybe that was just me. Nonetheless, what will be clear to any New Avengers fan is that the team's frustration and righteous anger has reached the fever pitch that Bendis has been working towards since the conclusion of Civil War.
In other words, someone's about to get beat down. And, thanks to the deft building of anticipation in this issue, I'm excited as hell about it.
Review Score: 8.0 Impressive
So let's get this out of the way immediately: New Avengers #49 feels like, in many respects, a filler issue — the bane of many comic readers' existence. It sets up the next major development for the series, ties up a dangling plot thread from Secret Invasion, and, beyond that, achieves little in terms of developing new plot threads for the future.
Of course, a filler issue of New Avengers is still better than 90% of the mainstream comics out there, and this installment is no exception. Bendis proves, once again, that even his transitionary issues are still worthy of praise and emulation.
As you'd probably anticipate, this issue picks up where the last one left off, with Luke Cage having sold his soul to the Marvel Universe's present devil-in-chief Norman Osborn, in return for Osborn's assistance in finding Cage's child. The issue resolves, at least for the time being, the fate of the child, and primes the audience for the already-advertised showdown next issue between Avengers Dark and New.
It also provides Bendis with an opportunity to remind us, lest we forget, just how bad-ass the former Power Man is. What's even more impressive, though, is that before and after his displays of superhuman fortitude, Bendis allows Cage to be a mere human being; a husband and father in awe of love he feels for his family and fully conscious of the responsibility that love entails.
The final pages of the issue reunite many of the New Avengers, as well as some of their other superheroic cohorts, at the home of Captain America. In this scene, Bendis includes some strong character beats through the dialogue, and takes the opportunity to pontificate on the overarching theme of Dark Reign. Namely, that when a crisis occurs there is always someone ready to take nefarious advantage of the populaces' desire to be saved.
As the team gathers around the television set to watch Osborn's press conference, as depicted in last week's Dark Avengers, you can practically here the guitar squall from the Who's classic, "Won't Get Fooled Again" rising in the background. Okay, maybe that was just me. Nonetheless, what will be clear to any New Avengers fan is that the team's frustration and righteous anger has reached the fever pitch that Bendis has been working towards since the conclusion of Civil War.
In other words, someone's about to get beat down. And, thanks to the deft building of anticipation in this issue, I'm excited as hell about it.
Review Score: 8.0 Impressive
