And there should be a day when the most powerful reviewers of the planet will come together to tackle a book that no one can work on on their own. So they come together to get an overview of the mighty Marvel! This focuses on a week focused on an overview, as the main review focuses on the conclusions of Aliens vs. Avengers. Then this week’s issues of Ultimates, Avengers, and Godzilla vs. Avengers collapse. Can Earth’s most powerful review team work on what Marvel throws at them? Continue reading to find it!
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Art by Esad Ribić and Colorist Ive Svorcina
Alien vs. Avengers #4
Author: Jonathan Hickman
Artist: Esad Ribić
Colorist: ive svorcina
Character: Cory Petit in VC
Recently, author Jonathan Hickman interviewed an off-panel podcast about how likely he would be to make a comeback to the Avengers and the X-Men. In a way, this Alien vs Avengers series feels like they’ve said goodbye to both franchises, but it also adds the bonus of integrating the alien franchise. The final story brings ideas and themes from these previous works. Meanwhile, he uses Xenomorphs as the last impossible challenge for the two teams. He and artist Esad Livich aim for the star with his ambition, but the final problem is crashed upon entry to the return.
That huge range makes this final problem so frustrating. This was a series built on big science fiction ideas. Art by Ribić and colorist Ive Svorcina has invigorated a variety of storytelling modes, from sci-fi landscapes to monster superhero battles. It also had the appearance of all the older Marvel characters in this story, from Miles Morales’ Xenomorph Symbiote to Captain Marvel’s more Battle Lady’s armored appearance. Then there were many strange ideas in the early issues. Prometheus and the Alien David Android: The Contract reveals that they sow Xenomorphs in various worlds throughout the multiverse in order to truly eradicate all life. Possibility of Xenomorph with fundamental abilities based on incubated Marvel alien species. Prometheus engineers are trying to eradicate the planet sown by David. There was also a merger of Weyland Industry and Stark Enterprises! One of those ideas could have honestly created a crossover series that piqued its interest.
Art by Esad Ribić and Colorist Ive Svorcina
But this is a series with all these ideas, and honestly, even 44 pages each, wasn’t enough space to explore any of these ideas in detail. Instead, the final issue that leaves us back to the beginning (remember Wakandan?), and we’re finished darkly as we watch a final battle with the characters, who are only introduced in the last issue. Ribić renders it beautifully and in detail, and the moment of victory is brilliantly gory, but what ends? This is a false victory for the hero. The ending may echo the first two films, but several survivors flee to the unknown. However, as we know from the beginning of the story, the Marvel universe is now surrounded by the infection of this death. Where do survivors go when the universe is dying?
Art by Esad Ribić and Colorist Ive Svorcina
Can an alien movie be dark? Certainly, we’re talking about the film franchise. It talks about exploiting workers in the hopes that businesses can make money from deadly alien species. Even Ripley, an employee of a poor company, has been fighting these monsters for 100 years, but gets a concrete victory.
Art by Esad Ribić and Colorist Ive Svorcina
It seems to have become more common to modern superhero storytellers when they want to send out in the distant future form of a distant future adventure. But if this is Hickman’s idea of farewell and final adventure for both the Avengers and X-Men characters, it certainly comes across as a desire to destroy everything and salt the Earth. Even the past days of the future where future X-Men teams were brutally wiped out suggested that there was at least a chance of victory. There are no moments of victory here. The only thing we know is that survival, death and entropy are inevitable. This last issue gives this series such a bitter feeling. There is fear, then there is despair. Alien vs. Avengers will eventually see Deep bye’s face for all of its intriguing ideas.
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A quick rundown!
Ultimates #13 It’s always a good week for Ultimates to be released, and with the launch of “Ultimates 3.0” in Ultimates #13 by Deniz Camp and Art by Juan Frigeri, there’s a lot of hype surrounding this issue. And boy, does the question satisfy that? This issue changes priorities from the perspective of a new ultimate goal, embracing and changing the present from trying to regain the past. Give people something incredibly new. Tony has a fantastic montage in his diary entry way, explaining to his father the ultimate new way of spreading knowledge, truth and power to citizens of the world. Let people stand up for the individual. There’s even an interesting scene where Tony makes a “YouTube Tutorial” on how to make Molotov cocktails. Tony can see how much he has grown and changed, as he has been here from the start and is a great mind to follow. This issue feels like the “act 2” of the Ultimates storyline. As all their mistakes are behind them, the story shows how the ultimate learned from their mistakes and intends to correct them. For fans who have been reading Ultimate since issue 1, you’re already going to pick this up, but now that you’ve made the first pull list you’ve read and now that they’ve evolved their plans, you’ll see how Ultimate shakes the Ultimate Universe. But it’s not all sun and rainbows, and good teamwork isn’t always there. Dennis Camp leaves the issue in a cliffhanger with ominous fear, wondering if the hero is willing to sacrifice himself to achieve a better world. – LM
Godzilla vs. Avengers #1
For the past few months, Godzilla, everyone’s favorite atomic fire breathing kaiju, has stomped on the Marvel landscape and has taken over the Marvel universe heroes in various eras in publishing history. This next article is a bit of a false fame as the Earth’s strongest hero gets caught up in the middle, mainly Godzilla, the king of monsters, and the other “kings of kings” Finn Fun Hum. Writer David F. Walker is a master storyteller with an evil sense of humor, and is joined by comic veteran Georges Gianti in ink and pencils from Carl Story to showcase the Avengers from the Brian Michael Bendis era. The Avengers, spoken in the Flashback Framework, are reported by Maria Hill after their encounters with Godzilla, Finfan Froome and Jet Jaguar. While it’s not easy to write Spider-Man’s burst of neurological attitudes and Tony’s arrogance while balancing the monster-on-monster brawl, Walker’s dialogue adds that comedic touch and gives it that Marvel magic while reminding him of the Justice League of the late ’80s. And readers of the overview know how much I love the traditional comic techniques of ink-filled pencils. Jeanty comes with comedy pacing and storytelling along with the story. Bottomline, Walker, Jeanthi and the story are in its creative pockets in this fun, quirky tale of Kaiju vs. Mecha/superhero that anyone can love and enjoy. – GC3
Avengers #27 Sam Wilson’s Resurrected Masters of Evil Masters reinforces from the Black Panther. One world under Doom Tie-In Arc is directly linked to the main event, and instead focuses on this under a siege style story. Jed Mackay’s Avengers Run has been pretty solid up to this point, and this addition is similar, with Mackay having a great sense of pace and accumulating to his writing. He honestly has a very satisfying rhythm. Avengers #27 follows the familiar story structure of past issues as Cap and Panther defeat two members of the Evil Master and head towards the thinker. This problem is effective and fun. This Arc’s character moment with Sam is solid as Mackay explores his sense of helplessness in the face of evil, but still wants to fight back. The art of this issue is divided between Andrea Brockardo and Farid Karami. Broccardo is a major part of this problem and does well in the Valerio City location. Stylistically, they are very similar, which is supported by the colours of Fedelicoburi. Karami handles world issues in Prism and captures a lovely stylistic break from Broccardo, but appears to belong to the same issue thanks to Blee’s colour styling. Great colorists can give books a homogenous sense. This arc is not important to the bigger world under the story of fate, but this issue is a great piece for Sam Wilson fans. -jj
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