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Avengers (2018) (Collected Editions) #9-11
Avengers, Vol. 5
Earth's Mightiest Heroes face their greatest challenges! First, when She-Hulk is declared a global menace, Russia's champions the Winter Guard are tasked with bringing her to justice! But when Jen Walters enters the Red Room, something terrifying emerges! Then, from outside our reality come the Deathloks, with a dire warning. The Multiversal Masters of Evil are coming - and with both Asgard and Avengers Mountain under assault, powerful new allies must assemble! Welcome to Namor the Sub-Mariner and Jane Foster, A.K.A. Valkyrie! But surely Starbrand is too young to be an Avenger? Meanwhile, what is Nighthawk up to? And when Mephisto's grand plan nears fruition, our time-torn heroes will need help from legendary champions from different eras whose stories have never been told - until now! Collecting: Avengers (2018) #46-62, Avengers 1,000,000 BC #1 and material from Free Comic Book Day 2021: Avengers/Hulk
476 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 21, 2024
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About the author
Jason Aaron
2,360 books1,677 followersJason Aaron grew up in a small town in Alabama. His cousin, Gustav Hasford, who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers, on which the feature film Full Metal Jacket was based, was a large influence on Aaron. Aaron decided he wanted to write comics as a child, and though his father was skeptical when Aaron informed him of this aspiration, his mother took Aaron to drug stores, where he would purchase books from spinner racks, some of which he still owns today.
Aaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors.
In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.
Following this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo.
In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw: Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions. Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso, who was impressed by The Other Side and Scalped, hired Aaron to write issues of Wolverine, Black Panther and eventually, an extended run on Ghost Rider that began in April 2008. His continued work on Black Panther also included a tie-in to the company-wide crossover storyline along with a "Secret Invasion" with David Lapham in 2009.
In January 2008, he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, though it would not affect his work on Scalped. Later that July, he wrote the Penguin issue of The Joker's Asylum.
After a 4-issue stint on Wolverine in 2007, Aaron returned to the character with the ongoing series Wolverine: Weapon X, launched to coincide with the feature film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Aaron commented, "With Wolverine: Weapon X we'll be trying to mix things up like that from arc to arc, so the first arc is a typical sort of black ops story but the second arc will jump right into the middle of a completely different genre," In 2010, the series was relaunched once again as simply Wolverine. He followed this with his current run on Thor: God of Thunder.
Aaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors.
In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.
Following this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo.
In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw: Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions. Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso, who was impressed by The Other Side and Scalped, hired Aaron to write issues of Wolverine, Black Panther and eventually, an extended run on Ghost Rider that began in April 2008. His continued work on Black Panther also included a tie-in to the company-wide crossover storyline along with a "Secret Invasion" with David Lapham in 2009.
In January 2008, he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, though it would not affect his work on Scalped. Later that July, he wrote the Penguin issue of The Joker's Asylum.
After a 4-issue stint on Wolverine in 2007, Aaron returned to the character with the ongoing series Wolverine: Weapon X, launched to coincide with the feature film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Aaron commented, "With Wolverine: Weapon X we'll be trying to mix things up like that from arc to arc, so the first arc is a typical sort of black ops story but the second arc will jump right into the middle of a completely different genre," In 2010, the series was relaunched once again as simply Wolverine. He followed this with his current run on Thor: God of Thunder.
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November 26, 2024
This final volume of Jason Aaron's Avengers was a mixed bag. To start, the art was great. It was a little cartoonish and blocky, but I liked it. I also really enjoyed the liberties Garron took with the many different upgrades these characters had (Red Panther was dope). Now for the plot. This book was 3 volumes or 3 arcs in story; World War She-Hulk, Deathlok Massacre, and Avengers contrived. The She-hulk and Deathlok arcs were great! While my main issue Aaron's run continues in these volumes (too many avenger-esq teams), the action and character understanding were fantastic and while they were leading to the Avengers Forever or Heroes Reborn events, they still were able to stand on their own. The main problems come from the final arc, the avengers through history. Every iteration of these characters, while some makes sense that there are early iterations of the characters (Black Panther, Iron Fist, Ghost Rider, etc.), takes away from what makes the heroes we're following special. If there's an iteration of Pheonix in every century, why do we care that Jean Grey or even Echo have it. Why do we care about the Starbrand (other than Brandy herself) if it was controlled by a dinosaur without repercussions? I understand what Aaron was trying to go for here, but in the end, he just took away what makes the main heroes different and the reason we follow them in the first place. I'd recommend volumes 9 and 10 of the series not 11, so I guess I don't recommend this book specifically. Grade: B-
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