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Avengers (1998) (New Editions) #6-9
Avengers by Johns & Coipel Omnibus
Superstar writer Geoff Johns and brilliant artist Olivier Coipel take on the Avengers!
They can defeat any super villain, but can the Avengers govern the world? When the capital cities of every country on Earth vanish, the floundering nations turn to the only organization capable of helping them: the Avengers! But when Thor ascends to Asgard’s throne and decides to start answering his worshippers’ pleas for help, it causes a tense standoff with his stalwart allies, Iron Man and Captain America! Plus: An amnesiac Vision faces technological terror! A new hero with an impressive legacy joins the team! And when the new Invaders hit the battlefield, Namor the Sub-Mariner marshals his forces — but whose side will the Avengers come down on?
COLLECTING: Avengers (1998) 57-84, Vision (2002) 1-4, Thor (1998) 58, Iron Man (1998) 64, New Invaders (2004) 0
They can defeat any super villain, but can the Avengers govern the world? When the capital cities of every country on Earth vanish, the floundering nations turn to the only organization capable of helping them: the Avengers! But when Thor ascends to Asgard’s throne and decides to start answering his worshippers’ pleas for help, it causes a tense standoff with his stalwart allies, Iron Man and Captain America! Plus: An amnesiac Vision faces technological terror! A new hero with an impressive legacy joins the team! And when the new Invaders hit the battlefield, Namor the Sub-Mariner marshals his forces — but whose side will the Avengers come down on?
COLLECTING: Avengers (1998) 57-84, Vision (2002) 1-4, Thor (1998) 58, Iron Man (1998) 64, New Invaders (2004) 0
824 pages, Hardcover
Published December 23, 2025
About the author
Geoff Johns
2,997 books2,439 followersGeoff Johns originally hails from Detroit, Michigan. He attended Michigan State University, where he earned a degree in Media Arts and Film. He moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s in search of work within the film industry. Through perseverance, Geoff ended up as the assistant to Richard Donner, working on Conspiracy Theory and Lethal Weapon 4. During that time, he also began his comics career writing Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. and JSA (co-written with David S. Goyer) for DC Comics. He worked with Richard Donner for four years, leaving the company to pursue writing full-time.
His first comics assignments led to a critically acclaimed five-year run on the The Flash. Since then, he has quickly become one of the most popular and prolific comics writers today, working on such titles including a highly successful re-imagining of Green Lantern, Action Comics (co-written with Richard Donner), Teen Titans, Justice Society of America, Infinite Crisis and the experimental breakout hit series 52 for DC with Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid. Geoff received the Wizard Fan Award for Breakout Talent of 2002 and Writer of the Year for 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 as well as the CBG Writer of the Year 2003 thru 2005, 2007 and CBG Best Comic Book Series for JSA 2001 thru 2005. Geoff also developed BLADE: THE SERIES with David S. Goyer, as well as penned the acclaimed “Legion” episode of SMALLVILLE. He also served as staff writer for the fourth season of ROBOT CHICKEN.
Geoff recently became a New York Times Bestselling author with the graphic novel Superman: Brainiac with art by Gary Frank.
His first comics assignments led to a critically acclaimed five-year run on the The Flash. Since then, he has quickly become one of the most popular and prolific comics writers today, working on such titles including a highly successful re-imagining of Green Lantern, Action Comics (co-written with Richard Donner), Teen Titans, Justice Society of America, Infinite Crisis and the experimental breakout hit series 52 for DC with Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid. Geoff received the Wizard Fan Award for Breakout Talent of 2002 and Writer of the Year for 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 as well as the CBG Writer of the Year 2003 thru 2005, 2007 and CBG Best Comic Book Series for JSA 2001 thru 2005. Geoff also developed BLADE: THE SERIES with David S. Goyer, as well as penned the acclaimed “Legion” episode of SMALLVILLE. He also served as staff writer for the fourth season of ROBOT CHICKEN.
Geoff recently became a New York Times Bestselling author with the graphic novel Superman: Brainiac with art by Gary Frank.
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June 23, 2026
Despite owning all of the issues in this volume, I had not previously read all of them. I picked this omnibus up dirt cheap and decided to review the issues as I read them. And, boy, did this run have some issues! The artwork overall goes from bad-to-worse despite some stellar gems buried amidst the drek. The characters feel off. The stories are hit-and-miss; I think that is because Marvel seemed to start wanting story arcs to be written in such a way that they could fill a TPB when six issues were collected together (or 2 three-issue stories) and that style of forced writing hurt the plots of the stories.
Regarding the team: It feels like the team is composed mostly of B-listers and C-listers than any A-listers (although most could be A-listers if written correctly) because of how they interact with each other. There seems to be more animosity than usual, more rough edges. I realize it could partially be because of the nature of the team and how little experience some of them have working with (on) a team. The team official team consists of Captain America, Iron Man, Warbird, Wanda, Vision, Falcon, the Wasp, Hank Pym, and She-Hulk. Ant-Man (Scott Lang) and Jack O'Hearts also join the team "right away" as their situations change. Hawkeye eventually rejoins the team. Thor and Namor also join for a brief adventure. So a lot of characters with few who feel like they are written "correctly" throughout this collection (Namor is probably "the most correct" as it is hard to get his character "wrong" - pompous jerk who can back up his attitude with physical violence if need be; Cap comes in a close second to being written relatively correctly). Cap definitely needed to schedule more team-training and team-building events so that the team would gel together both on-mission and off-mission, hahahah.
Regarding the (overall) plot: It is weird - this part of Avengers volume 03 almost feels like the new writers are going for something similar to what Bob Harras did in his run between issues 343 and 375 of volume 1 (The Gatherers Saga and making the Avengers read like a bit of an adventurous soap opera at times), but they are not quite making it work. The "conflicts" between some of the team members feel forced and unnatural because the reader is not given a reason why these conflicts exist in the first place. Characters are abrasive with each other, quick to judge, openly express animosity and distrust to each other, and various fights almost break out because of the testosterone levels in the room. I cannot decide if something happened between the end of Busiek's run and the start of Johns' run to cause so much distrust and animosity between the characters. Not only that, but the characters are going in one direction under Johns and then switch behaviors, motivations, and attitudes under Austen.
Then there are some other things: Mighty Thor vol. 2 #58 feels out of place in this volume, as does Iron Man vol. 3 # 64. They should have finished this round of stories in the Captain America series during that time instead of shoehorning it into the Avengers run. These two issues feel out of place in this compilation, and reading issue 63 makes no sense without reading the prior two issues (which I remember happening to me the first time I read the Avengers issue, hahahah!).
Not only that, but then you have the four-part Vision series stuck into this collection with no explanation as to why it was included. That was a crap story with crap art and should not have been written, in my opinion. Granted, I guess it does explain some of why Vision acts and appears the way he does in some issues shortly after this miniseries ended, but there is nothing in the issues beforehand indicating that Vision was having any kind of "issues" that he was having in the miniseries.
I think it was the cover of the first Red Zone story that got me back into reading the Avengers; I had quit reading them towards the end of Busiek's run. I remember thinking the story started strong but then faded into disappointment. I still kept reading though, in hopes it would get better. All, well. Hope springs eternal! It did get better (at the time) when Bendis took over - he took the team in a direction I never expected a writer to go. But that is a review for another time.
Because I am a completist, I am glad I came across this collection. I am also glad I bought it at a greatly discounted price. Otherwise, I was greatly disappointed with the stories in this collection. My thoughts on the individual issues in this collection can be found on my reviews of each issue, but I must say this was a depressingly pathetic run on this team after it reached its "levels of greatness" under Busiek and Perez. Maybe if I ever found some articles discussing the motivations behind the directions the writers took, I might change my opinion. And I should probably go back and reread those early issues because I freely admit nostalgia could be coloring my memories of those issues and adversely affecting my opinion of these stories/issues as a result. Despite my disdain for the stories in this run, I will say this: there are some good moments, some heroic moments where heroes stepped up and surprised me. Surprisingly, I think only one "new" hero was introduced in these issues . There are some funny moments, some trashy moments, and a lot of stupid moments where it is hard to believe these are "the Avengers" (especially in Austen's run), which makes this omnibus collection 2-stars for me.
Regarding the team: It feels like the team is composed mostly of B-listers and C-listers than any A-listers (although most could be A-listers if written correctly) because of how they interact with each other. There seems to be more animosity than usual, more rough edges. I realize it could partially be because of the nature of the team and how little experience some of them have working with (on) a team. The team official team consists of Captain America, Iron Man, Warbird, Wanda, Vision, Falcon, the Wasp, Hank Pym, and She-Hulk. Ant-Man (Scott Lang) and Jack O'Hearts also join the team "right away" as their situations change. Hawkeye eventually rejoins the team. Thor and Namor also join for a brief adventure. So a lot of characters with few who feel like they are written "correctly" throughout this collection (Namor is probably "the most correct" as it is hard to get his character "wrong" - pompous jerk who can back up his attitude with physical violence if need be; Cap comes in a close second to being written relatively correctly). Cap definitely needed to schedule more team-training and team-building events so that the team would gel together both on-mission and off-mission, hahahah.
Regarding the (overall) plot: It is weird - this part of Avengers volume 03 almost feels like the new writers are going for something similar to what Bob Harras did in his run between issues 343 and 375 of volume 1 (The Gatherers Saga and making the Avengers read like a bit of an adventurous soap opera at times), but they are not quite making it work. The "conflicts" between some of the team members feel forced and unnatural because the reader is not given a reason why these conflicts exist in the first place. Characters are abrasive with each other, quick to judge, openly express animosity and distrust to each other, and various fights almost break out because of the testosterone levels in the room. I cannot decide if something happened between the end of Busiek's run and the start of Johns' run to cause so much distrust and animosity between the characters. Not only that, but the characters are going in one direction under Johns and then switch behaviors, motivations, and attitudes under Austen.
Then there are some other things: Mighty Thor vol. 2 #58 feels out of place in this volume, as does Iron Man vol. 3 # 64. They should have finished this round of stories in the Captain America series during that time instead of shoehorning it into the Avengers run. These two issues feel out of place in this compilation, and reading issue 63 makes no sense without reading the prior two issues (which I remember happening to me the first time I read the Avengers issue, hahahah!).
Not only that, but then you have the four-part Vision series stuck into this collection with no explanation as to why it was included. That was a crap story with crap art and should not have been written, in my opinion. Granted, I guess it does explain some of why Vision acts and appears the way he does in some issues shortly after this miniseries ended, but there is nothing in the issues beforehand indicating that Vision was having any kind of "issues" that he was having in the miniseries.
I think it was the cover of the first Red Zone story that got me back into reading the Avengers; I had quit reading them towards the end of Busiek's run. I remember thinking the story started strong but then faded into disappointment. I still kept reading though, in hopes it would get better. All, well. Hope springs eternal! It did get better (at the time) when Bendis took over - he took the team in a direction I never expected a writer to go. But that is a review for another time.
Because I am a completist, I am glad I came across this collection. I am also glad I bought it at a greatly discounted price. Otherwise, I was greatly disappointed with the stories in this collection. My thoughts on the individual issues in this collection can be found on my reviews of each issue, but I must say this was a depressingly pathetic run on this team after it reached its "levels of greatness" under Busiek and Perez. Maybe if I ever found some articles discussing the motivations behind the directions the writers took, I might change my opinion. And I should probably go back and reread those early issues because I freely admit nostalgia could be coloring my memories of those issues and adversely affecting my opinion of these stories/issues as a result. Despite my disdain for the stories in this run, I will say this: there are some good moments, some heroic moments where heroes stepped up and surprised me. Surprisingly, I think only one "new" hero was introduced in these issues . There are some funny moments, some trashy moments, and a lot of stupid moments where it is hard to believe these are "the Avengers" (especially in Austen's run), which makes this omnibus collection 2-stars for me.
April 5, 2026
First time reading this run and it was a fun reading experience. Some great issues, some bad but great artwork throughout. Black Panther had some of the best moments in this book. Now onto New Avengers by Bendis.
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