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Echo (collected editions)
A Canção da Fênix: Eco
Maya Lopez, uma lutadora de rua, surda… e escolhida como avatar por uma das mais poderosas e antigas entidades do Universo Marvel. A pergunta que passa pelas cabeças de todos é: POR QUÊ?! Mas Lopez está longe de saber a resposta. Se adaptando aos seus novos poderes cósmicos e à personalidade intensa da Fênix, Eco decide retornar às suas origens para tentar encontrar algum tipo de sentido. Mas talvez ela venha a encontrar apenas uma terrível ameaça, entremeada em seu passado e em seu futuro. Forças ancestrais, novos e imprevisíveis aliados, conflitos entre mutantes – a batalha final vai enfim determinar se Eco conseguirá se reerguer das cinzas como a verdadeira Fênix.
Marvel’s Voices: Heritage (2021) 1, Phoenix Song: Echo (2021) 1-5
Marvel’s Voices: Heritage (2021) 1, Phoenix Song: Echo (2021) 1-5
128 pages, Paperback
First published April 26, 2022
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About the author
Rebecca Roanhorse
64 books10.3k followersRebecca Roanhorse is a New York Times bestselling and Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Award-winning speculative fiction writer. She has published multiple award-winning short stories and novels, including two novels in The Sixth World Series, Star Wars: Resistance Reborn, Race to the Sun for the Rick Riordan imprint, and the epic fantasy trilogy Between Earth and Sky. She has also written for Marvel Comics and games and for television, including FX’s A Murder at the End of the World, and the Marvel series Echo for Disney+. She has had her own work optioned by Amazon Studios, Netflix, and AMC Studios.
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November 27, 2023
From the pages of Aaron's season seven Avengers run, the now Phoenix enable Mya Lopez in her new incarnation draws bad intent from one of the X-Men's classic foes from the past! The whole Phoenix as part of the 2020's Avengers mythos really doesn't work for me, and this book goes on to concrete my belief. Despite a cool adversary and a guest mutant, this just further diminishes the great Phoenix lore in my opinion. A 5 out of 12 Two Star read for me.
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July 27, 2022
A strong debut from Rebecca Roanhorse. Echo has just received the Phoenix power and is having difficulties controlling its rage. She meets up with another Native American character that has the power to visit a person's ancestral line. Just as that happens, old time X-Men villain, The Adversary, arrives to steal the power of the Phoenix. Given that the Adversary is involved, it just makes sense that Forge would be as well. (See X-Men: Fall of the Mutants for their past confrontation.) I look forward to reading some more Rebecca Roanhorse comics in the future.
July 10, 2022
I really like that Marvel has taken a relatively unknown character and given her a much larger platform. My only knowledge of Maya Lopez/Echo has been the Hawkeye show. But know she has been chosen to host the ancient Phoenix Force and she needs to figure out who she is so that she can control this new power of her. Marvel does not have a whole lot of Native American characters (more than most people) so it’s nice to see them make one incredibly powerful and a member of the Avengers. I would have preferred a more detailed story of Maya discovering her genealogy over the story presented here but I did like it.
August 26, 2023
Quando fiquei sabendo que a Marvel iria lançar essa minissérie, focando Eco, Maya Lopez, como a Fênix, eu pensei que seria uma bomba de ruim. Pensei que nem chegaria perto de ser lançada no Brasil. Mas foi e eu comprei e eu li e eu gostei. Os roteiros de Rebecca Roanhorse são envolventes e a arte de Luca Maresca e dos demais desenhistas são boas de acompanhar. Além disso, a minissérie tem a participação do x-man Forge, o que é um atrativo a mais para fãs dos mutantes como eu. Contudo, se você gosta da Eco das histórias do Demolidor ou de quando ela foi Ronin nos Vingadores de Bendis, provavelmente não vá gostar e vá estranhar essa Eco desta edição. Esta está muito mais relacionada à sua origem indígena que sua origem latina e também pouco aborda o fato dela ser uma pessoa com deficiência auditiva, como nas demais séries que participa. Eu acredito que a transformação de Eco em Fênix foi um desperdício de duas boas personagens, mas aqui os artífices conseguem contornar essa "condição" de um jeito legal a ainda inserir novos elementos agregados a temas e personagens para os fãs dos mutantes.
August 17, 2024
A little confusing since I haven’t read any of the interconnecting series, but nice art and a fun story!
August 22, 2022
I'll start with this: I have the Phoenix Force (complete with Jean Grey sigil) tattooed on my inner left forearm. So, the Phoenix in Marvel is always something I pay attention to. In a recent Volume of Avengers, Maya Lopez (Echo) inherited the Phoenix, becoming the host body and gained huge amounts of power. With her inclusion on the Hawkeye show, AND getting her own future show, many eyes are on Echo.
Highlights:
- After evading both Forge and Daredevil, Echo goes off to her mother's home reservation to seek the help of a wise man, hoping that something about her heritage will provide her the answers to helping control the powers of the Phoenix. She finds River, grandson of the wise man she knew from before.
- River has a power, the ability to see into someone's ancestral line. However, by merely being in the proximity of the Phoenix, his power increases to be able to travel physically back through someone's timeline. Maya, overwhelmed at seeing her mother, inadvertently causes her death when The Adversary (a shadow entity that Maya has fought before) shows up for a fight...
- ... and so much of the Volume is the two of them jumping back further and further in time, while Adversary tries to erase her timeline completely...
- Arriving thousands of years in the past, we meet one of Maya's ancestors who was the host for the Phoenix Force. Let the training montage commence! After which Maya can defeat the Adversary and become the ruler of the White Hot Room.
Overall a good story, and while I like Echo.... give the Phoenix back to Jean, please.
Recommend. Really fast paced and well done.
Highlights:
- After evading both Forge and Daredevil, Echo goes off to her mother's home reservation to seek the help of a wise man, hoping that something about her heritage will provide her the answers to helping control the powers of the Phoenix. She finds River, grandson of the wise man she knew from before.
- River has a power, the ability to see into someone's ancestral line. However, by merely being in the proximity of the Phoenix, his power increases to be able to travel physically back through someone's timeline. Maya, overwhelmed at seeing her mother, inadvertently causes her death when The Adversary (a shadow entity that Maya has fought before) shows up for a fight...
- ... and so much of the Volume is the two of them jumping back further and further in time, while Adversary tries to erase her timeline completely...
- Arriving thousands of years in the past, we meet one of Maya's ancestors who was the host for the Phoenix Force. Let the training montage commence! After which Maya can defeat the Adversary and become the ruler of the White Hot Room.
Overall a good story, and while I like Echo.... give the Phoenix back to Jean, please.
Recommend. Really fast paced and well done.
January 6, 2026
I think I may have liked this book better if I knew what was going on in the Marvel Universe that led to a Daredevil character getting The Phoenix Force, why Elektra was Daredevil, or how someone as powerful as The Phoenix could lose a fight to Namor.
Even going in blind, I think I would have liked it better if the pacing wasn't all over the place. It seemed really slow in parts, but the final battle against The Adversary was over in a few panels.
Also, I wasn't a fan of the way they handled the covers. Not only were The Avengers on the cover of the collection, but for the individual covers inside the book, it seemed like Wolverine was going to be a major part of the story. However, neither the Avengers nor Wolverine showed up. I get they were used to sell more copies, but it was a bit of a cheap trick.
Even going in blind, I think I would have liked it better if the pacing wasn't all over the place. It seemed really slow in parts, but the final battle against The Adversary was over in a few panels.
Also, I wasn't a fan of the way they handled the covers. Not only were The Avengers on the cover of the collection, but for the individual covers inside the book, it seemed like Wolverine was going to be a major part of the story. However, neither the Avengers nor Wolverine showed up. I get they were used to sell more copies, but it was a bit of a cheap trick.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 8, 2022
I loved Echo in the Hawkeye tv series and I love Rebecca Roanhorse's story!!
Echo has tbe Phoenix force, she is struggling with the power, being chased by evil and learning about her ancestors finding out her heritage (badass warrior women) and maybe even a tiny romance!
Echo has tbe Phoenix force, she is struggling with the power, being chased by evil and learning about her ancestors finding out her heritage (badass warrior women) and maybe even a tiny romance!
June 21, 2022
New to the power of the Phoenix. It was interesting to go back and tap into her ancestral knowledge.
August 30, 2022
This book was one I had very positive expectations of because I like Maya Lopez as a character from back when she first appeared in Daredevil and her becoming The Phoenix was a strange and genuinely unexpected turn of events - one brimming with potential.
THE STORY:
The 5-issue mini is following Maya (a.k.a Echo) after she has become Phoenix and her struggle to get a handle on being the host of one of the most powerful cosmic entities in existence. That premise alone should be sufficient for a mini like this, but we get that plus we get the mingling of that with dipping toes into the waters of Maya's lineage via the introduction of a new character named River whom she meets at a Native Reservation where she goes to seek the aid of a tribal elder who has unfortunately passed away.
Meanwhile we have a shadowy entity who is trying to meddle with and possibly do harm to our young heroine and also Forge of the X-Men who thinks that Maya is in over her head and after all that mutants have been through at The Phoenixs' hands (claws? beak? wings?), it needs to be contained until Maya can get control or they can be possibly seperated if she can't.
MY THOUGHTS:
There is no doubt that the strongest part of this book is the artwork. The entire art team has done a bang-up job from start to finish, including some truly GORGEOUS covers for each issue, truly Phoenix-traordinary!
The story however suffers from multiple reasons. It seems to be a bit of a Marvel trend at the moment maybe, because I had a similar problem with another review I did recently (Sabretooth: The Adversary) which was that it was a book with many good ideas and a lot of potential, but somehow it seemed to be unable to focus and felt rushed and as a result, poorly executed in the end.
To be clear, the ideas that author Rebecca Roanhorse puts into play are perfectly good. Echo struggling with The Phoenix and the petulant nature of the entity was great and her need to try and ground herself and have a bit of a journey to get there and to reach an equilibrium with The Phoenix and that she'd have at least a couple of people who were after her is well within the ambit of what this comic should be focussing upon.
However, we get a painfully rushed comic that after a decent start in issue #1 to set it all in motion, from the second issue onwards is like a barrelling train. A fast-paced adventure is not in and of itself a bad thing, but this hearkens back to the comics of the "golden age" where there was little to no depth or explanation or exploration and nuance to what was happening. Hero does X, villain does Y, someone says a thing, there's punching and sad moment and then dark moment and then revelation moment and more punching and heroic shot and drama and then "boom! bang!" we're done and it's all tied up neatly with a bow - and they all lived happily ever after, or whatever.
Relationships evolve and change for no good reason, there's emotional moments that should be payouts but you never built anything for it to be paying off here. Echo's journey through her past and ancestry, her interactions with River and Forge, Forge's role in all this - all of it just felt like (especially as we got toward the end) just like a series of dominoes falling faster and faster and I didn't get to enjoy the journey and was expected to feel good at seeing the new big-picture at the end.
FINAL THOUGHT:
There's a fantastic character exploration and heroic adventure to be had here at its core and a perspective and study at Native American history to be done in this comic. But sadly it's all lost and at best, skimmed on the surface, all in the interest of the villain we could have totally excised from the story and perhaps a mini-series that could have done with an extra couple of issues to really give it some room. As it stands, it's a wonderfully drawn and rendered comic that's ultimately a let-down for me and a wasted opportunity as far as the story goes.
THE STORY:
The 5-issue mini is following Maya (a.k.a Echo) after she has become Phoenix and her struggle to get a handle on being the host of one of the most powerful cosmic entities in existence. That premise alone should be sufficient for a mini like this, but we get that plus we get the mingling of that with dipping toes into the waters of Maya's lineage via the introduction of a new character named River whom she meets at a Native Reservation where she goes to seek the aid of a tribal elder who has unfortunately passed away.
Meanwhile we have a shadowy entity who is trying to meddle with and possibly do harm to our young heroine and also Forge of the X-Men who thinks that Maya is in over her head and after all that mutants have been through at The Phoenixs' hands (claws? beak? wings?), it needs to be contained until Maya can get control or they can be possibly seperated if she can't.
MY THOUGHTS:
There is no doubt that the strongest part of this book is the artwork. The entire art team has done a bang-up job from start to finish, including some truly GORGEOUS covers for each issue, truly Phoenix-traordinary!
The story however suffers from multiple reasons. It seems to be a bit of a Marvel trend at the moment maybe, because I had a similar problem with another review I did recently (Sabretooth: The Adversary) which was that it was a book with many good ideas and a lot of potential, but somehow it seemed to be unable to focus and felt rushed and as a result, poorly executed in the end.
To be clear, the ideas that author Rebecca Roanhorse puts into play are perfectly good. Echo struggling with The Phoenix and the petulant nature of the entity was great and her need to try and ground herself and have a bit of a journey to get there and to reach an equilibrium with The Phoenix and that she'd have at least a couple of people who were after her is well within the ambit of what this comic should be focussing upon.
However, we get a painfully rushed comic that after a decent start in issue #1 to set it all in motion, from the second issue onwards is like a barrelling train. A fast-paced adventure is not in and of itself a bad thing, but this hearkens back to the comics of the "golden age" where there was little to no depth or explanation or exploration and nuance to what was happening. Hero does X, villain does Y, someone says a thing, there's punching and sad moment and then dark moment and then revelation moment and more punching and heroic shot and drama and then "boom! bang!" we're done and it's all tied up neatly with a bow - and they all lived happily ever after, or whatever.
Relationships evolve and change for no good reason, there's emotional moments that should be payouts but you never built anything for it to be paying off here. Echo's journey through her past and ancestry, her interactions with River and Forge, Forge's role in all this - all of it just felt like (especially as we got toward the end) just like a series of dominoes falling faster and faster and I didn't get to enjoy the journey and was expected to feel good at seeing the new big-picture at the end.
FINAL THOUGHT:
There's a fantastic character exploration and heroic adventure to be had here at its core and a perspective and study at Native American history to be done in this comic. But sadly it's all lost and at best, skimmed on the surface, all in the interest of the villain we could have totally excised from the story and perhaps a mini-series that could have done with an extra couple of issues to really give it some room. As it stands, it's a wonderfully drawn and rendered comic that's ultimately a let-down for me and a wasted opportunity as far as the story goes.
November 11, 2022
I enjoyed this comic and getting a better introduction to the character of Maya Lopez / Phoenix. We see her as she is beginning to understand and control her powers and truly be a hero. The villain is downright creepy and made for a good opponent. The plot is creative and compelling, although I wasn’t a huge fan of the love story that seemed forced and out of place. Also, I didn’t like the choice to make Maya a lip-reader, because in a print format with speech bubbles, her deafness is easily missed, and an opportunity to showcase an aspect of a truly unique superhero is lost. That was my biggest complaint with this book, but overall I enjoyed it and would recommend it!
May 7, 2025
A story about power and trauma. In some story I didn't read, Maya Lopez gets the Phoenix Force. She doesn't really know how to manage it and hurts people she's trying to save. She decides to find someone to help her master her powers and heads to a tribal nation to look up an old wise man.
Forge decides to be a dick about it, adding some tension.
Meanwhile, some ancient adversary (called Adversary) knows this is coming and has groomed the wise man's grandson to help steal it. The four of them go on an adventure through time.
There's the bones of a really good story here. But it was way too rushed and Forge was way to much of a dick for me to really sink into it.
Forge decides to be a dick about it, adding some tension.
Meanwhile, some ancient adversary (called Adversary) knows this is coming and has groomed the wise man's grandson to help steal it. The four of them go on an adventure through time.
There's the bones of a really good story here. But it was way too rushed and Forge was way to much of a dick for me to really sink into it.
April 10, 2022
Maya Lopez has the power to destroy worlds or create wonders. The Phoenix Force chose her for a reason. She just doesn't know what that reason is.
By the end of this series, I'm not sure we know what that reason is either.
It looks like they were able to anchor the character back on a human level. She's connected with her ancestors. That gives her more perspective...maybe more control. So, 5 issues to reset the character.
Bonus: Forge is classic Forge from the 80's
Bonus Bonus: Nice to see a new Native American character in the MU. Will we ever see him again?
By the end of this series, I'm not sure we know what that reason is either.
It looks like they were able to anchor the character back on a human level. She's connected with her ancestors. That gives her more perspective...maybe more control. So, 5 issues to reset the character.
Bonus: Forge is classic Forge from the 80's
Bonus Bonus: Nice to see a new Native American character in the MU. Will we ever see him again?
June 15, 2022
As an introduction to Echo, now a Phoenix, it really works. I was not very familiar with this character, and now I feel like I have a real sense of who she is. I also liked that the supporting cast of this miniseries is also Native. Forge's appearance feels natural enough, because it springs from concerns about the Phoenix force, and new character River has an interesting power set. I'm still not sure what part Maya is going to play as a Phoenix going forward, but that's probably above a single miniseries' pay grade.
December 10, 2023
Echo: Phoenix Song may not provide readers with information about how Echo came to possess the Phoenix Force, but the time travel narrative about the importance of indigenous history does resonate well in an era where that history is commonly relegated to the margins. Readers living near Collinsville, Illinois will also find a neat local connection as well.
January 5, 2023
This was a lot better than I thought it would be. I have been, and still am, apprehensive about Echo being the Phoenix. I have see how she is in the Avengers series, which is meh. But this has eased me a bit.
February 26, 2022
I enjoyed this series :) It definitely felt introductory, but it was great to see Maya in her own solo series! I am also very exited to see what happens with River in future comics! I really loved his character. Overall, I think Rebecca Roanhorse has done a great job with this character and I am even more excited for the Echo show knowing she’s involved!
May 1, 2022
Will River continue to exist?
October 1, 2022
Helps better establish Echo as Phoenix.
January 7, 2024
Awesome limited series.
April 15, 2024
Do I love the Phoenix? Yes.
Do I love anything by Rebecca Roanhorse? Also yes.
Do I love anything by Rebecca Roanhorse? Also yes.
June 18, 2024
I know very little about the Phoenix or Echo, but I really enjoyed this one. And the art is beautiful.
August 5, 2024
2,9 estrelas
September 27, 2024
As a lover of the phoenix force, it is nice to see someone else learning how to use it.
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