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Captain America and the Mighty Avengers
Captain America & the Mighty Avengers, Vol. 1: Open for Business
Spinning directly out of Avengers & X-Men: AXIS!
Sam Wilson is Captain America, and when he assembles the Mighty Avengers, he has a whole new mission in mind for Earth's Mightiest Heroes. But the events of AXIS already spell doom for the team's new direction! Why is Luke Cage meeting with the head of the notorious Cortex corporation? Once, Luke was a hero for anyone who needed help -but now, the only one Luke' helping is himself! Will Luke' marriage survive his inversion? As Spider-Man tries to rejoin the group, Captain America gets fed up with the team he re-formed -and alongside Iron Man, declares war on the Mighty Avengers! Meanwhile, as AXIS tears the team apart, Power Man and White Tiger investigate the brutal murder of Gideon Mace!
Collecting: Captain America & The Mighty Avengers 1-7
Sam Wilson is Captain America, and when he assembles the Mighty Avengers, he has a whole new mission in mind for Earth's Mightiest Heroes. But the events of AXIS already spell doom for the team's new direction! Why is Luke Cage meeting with the head of the notorious Cortex corporation? Once, Luke was a hero for anyone who needed help -but now, the only one Luke' helping is himself! Will Luke' marriage survive his inversion? As Spider-Man tries to rejoin the group, Captain America gets fed up with the team he re-formed -and alongside Iron Man, declares war on the Mighty Avengers! Meanwhile, as AXIS tears the team apart, Power Man and White Tiger investigate the brutal murder of Gideon Mace!
Collecting: Captain America & The Mighty Avengers 1-7
160 pages, Paperback
First published June 23, 2015
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April 19, 2016
The original concept behind the Mighty Avengers was to have a grass roots super hero group that could meet the needs of the common Joe - the Storefront Avengers.
- Whiny, mewling cat’s up a tree? We can handle it, She-Hulk will grab the catand toss it half way across the state.
- Ex-boyfriend’s a creeper? Power Man’ll break a limb (or two).
- Latte doesn’t taste right? White Tiger will gut the barista.
Okay, if I was calling the shots, then yes, this would be ideal, but Luke Cage wanted the Avengers to be available to the people…that is until he ran into the buzz saw that was the Axis storyline. To summarize Axis: Heroes go up against a super-powered Red Skull and have a tough go of it. Enter a collection of villains to “help”. Some weird “reversal” hoo-doo goes down and now the villains are doing good works and the heroes aren’t exactly evil, but their outlook on life is a little skewed:
Yikes and this isn't a Punisher book.
Not all the heroes transformed, but those that did include Captain America and Luke Cage and both want to re-write the Mighty Avengers mission statement to read: Screw you, New York! We’re cashing in!
The Avengers name is worth some big bucks and Tony Stark (the Superior Iron Man), doesn’t want to share the name with the Mighty Avengers. So the Douchebag Avengers, led by Tony Stark pay a visit to our heroes to talk (read: kick the crap out of them).
Let the chatting commence:
The other story contained in this volume is generic, except for some fine moments from Monica Rambeau, aka Spectrum.
Bottom Line: Of the volumes I’ve read of Ewing’s Mighty Avengers, both have been the back-drop for Marvel crossover events (Infinity, Inhumanity, Axis) and Ewing has managed at times to make his stories more compelling than the event they’re connected to.
- Whiny, mewling cat’s up a tree? We can handle it, She-Hulk will grab the cat
- Ex-boyfriend’s a creeper? Power Man’ll break a limb (or two).
- Latte doesn’t taste right? White Tiger will gut the barista.
Okay, if I was calling the shots, then yes, this would be ideal, but Luke Cage wanted the Avengers to be available to the people…that is until he ran into the buzz saw that was the Axis storyline. To summarize Axis: Heroes go up against a super-powered Red Skull and have a tough go of it. Enter a collection of villains to “help”. Some weird “reversal” hoo-doo goes down and now the villains are doing good works and the heroes aren’t exactly evil, but their outlook on life is a little skewed:
Yikes and this isn't a Punisher book.
Not all the heroes transformed, but those that did include Captain America and Luke Cage and both want to re-write the Mighty Avengers mission statement to read: Screw you, New York! We’re cashing in!
The Avengers name is worth some big bucks and Tony Stark (the Superior Iron Man), doesn’t want to share the name with the Mighty Avengers. So the Douchebag Avengers, led by Tony Stark pay a visit to our heroes to talk (read: kick the crap out of them).
Let the chatting commence:
The other story contained in this volume is generic, except for some fine moments from Monica Rambeau, aka Spectrum.
Bottom Line: Of the volumes I’ve read of Ewing’s Mighty Avengers, both have been the back-drop for Marvel crossover events (Infinity, Inhumanity, Axis) and Ewing has managed at times to make his stories more compelling than the event they’re connected to.
November 25, 2015
The tag line for this volume excitedly proclaims 'Spinning out of Axis!' aaaannnnd that pretty much sums up why the first couple of issues collected here suck harder than a hooker with a gun to her head.
I'm not going to get into this again but Crossover Event + ongoing series = unpleasant derailment. ENOUGH already, Marvel!
Fortunately for the readers, once the crossover crap is out of the way, the rest of this volume is excellent. Great superhero stuff with the added bonus of it tying into Nextwave. As a huge fan of Monica Rambeau, this brought a big, goofy smile to my face.
Have we really got time for another volume of this book before Secret Wars hits? Apparently so. Bring it on!
I'm not going to get into this again but Crossover Event + ongoing series = unpleasant derailment. ENOUGH already, Marvel!
Fortunately for the readers, once the crossover crap is out of the way, the rest of this volume is excellent. Great superhero stuff with the added bonus of it tying into Nextwave. As a huge fan of Monica Rambeau, this brought a big, goofy smile to my face.
Have we really got time for another volume of this book before Secret Wars hits? Apparently so. Bring it on!
April 27, 2016
There are some really good things about this volume, and most of them are Monica Rambeau. But the awful Axis crap takes over half the volume, and the rest is just bland, despite callbacks to the fantastic Nextwave, Agents of H.A.T.E.. The characters are too good for this story.
June 4, 2019
This was pretty meh. Glad to see how much Ewing Improved. This is just the mighty avengers who dealing with the fallout of Axis but nothing is very interesting. A 2 out of 5.
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May 9, 2015Marvel do love to relaunch their books at the least excuse these days, but Al Ewing's Mighty Avengers run suffered one of the most ill-thought-through of all. It goes like this: because of some plot in other, less good books, Steve Rogers has been replaced as Captain America, again. This time, the shield has gone to his long-time comrade Sam Wilson, aka the Falcon. Marvel made big mainstream media announcements about the fact that the new Captain America is black.
But - because of some other plot, in an even less good other book, loads of Marvel's heroes and villains have had their personalities inverted. Generally, this is even more stupid than it sounds, but in broad terms the nice have turned nasty and the nasty, nice.
The combined result being that anyone who's seen about this new black Cap, and decides to check him out, is introduced to him as a Judge Dredd-style violent, borderline-fascist bad cop. Oh yeah, and Luke Cage - one of Marvel's longest-standing black heroes, also a star of this series - got inverted too. He's no longer concerned with helping those in need (this series' original hook); now he's all about the money. As volume 4 of Mighty Avengers, this would have been a great story; Ewing handles the inversions much more subtly and plausibly than most of Marvel's writers managed. As a nice shiny #1 aimed at people who saw those news stories about Capt being African-American now, it's an offensively bad and utterly counter-productive idea from the marketing and editorial teams.
Anyway. Once all of that is out of the way we get back to evil corporations, mad science and a gratuitous but utterly joyful drive to reinsert Nextwave firmly back into Marvel continuity. Much less stressful.
But - because of some other plot, in an even less good other book, loads of Marvel's heroes and villains have had their personalities inverted. Generally, this is even more stupid than it sounds, but in broad terms the nice have turned nasty and the nasty, nice.
The combined result being that anyone who's seen about this new black Cap, and decides to check him out, is introduced to him as a Judge Dredd-style violent, borderline-fascist bad cop. Oh yeah, and Luke Cage - one of Marvel's longest-standing black heroes, also a star of this series - got inverted too. He's no longer concerned with helping those in need (this series' original hook); now he's all about the money. As volume 4 of Mighty Avengers, this would have been a great story; Ewing handles the inversions much more subtly and plausibly than most of Marvel's writers managed. As a nice shiny #1 aimed at people who saw those news stories about Capt being African-American now, it's an offensively bad and utterly counter-productive idea from the marketing and editorial teams.
Anyway. Once all of that is out of the way we get back to evil corporations, mad science and a gratuitous but utterly joyful drive to reinsert Nextwave firmly back into Marvel continuity. Much less stressful.
October 7, 2015
Holy shit this was wonderful. At this point, Al Ewing is right up there with Kieron Gillen as my favourite superhero comic book writer, and between this and Loki: Agent of Asgard he's maybe the best writer right now at not just threading the story he wants to tell through the crossover convolutions enforced by writing for one of the Big Two but actually using those limitations to make his stories even better; more emotional, more consequential, more exciting (G. Willow Wilson did a pretty good job with this on Ms. Marvel, too). If everyone could write like this, I'd look forward to big company-wide events with a lot less dread.
In terms of this title specifically, the way Ewing handles the evil flip storyline and then the death of the universe storyline is really great. The team he's got is interesting (and generally underused!) enough that it's hard not to wish he had more time to just do "normal" stories with them first, but during this truncated run he does really great work with them, and the Battleworld followup (Captain Britain and the Mighty Defenders) is really wonderfully in the spirit of this run. Luke Ross does solid work throughout; it's one of those books where the art while not particularly radical is clear and distinct and personal enough that when one of these characters shows up elsewhere for a second I'm going "wait, that's not what they look like..."
After the reboot it looks like Ewing's Ultimates run is going to have the closest thing to a version of this team (Black Panther, Monica Rambeau, Blue Marvel, Miss America, Captain Marvel, and Galactus), and his New Avengers should be interesting too (Sunspot, Squirrel Girl, Hawkeye, Songbird, Hulking and Wiccan). Sad to see this series go but it was damn good while it lasted.
In terms of this title specifically, the way Ewing handles the evil flip storyline and then the death of the universe storyline is really great. The team he's got is interesting (and generally underused!) enough that it's hard not to wish he had more time to just do "normal" stories with them first, but during this truncated run he does really great work with them, and the Battleworld followup (Captain Britain and the Mighty Defenders) is really wonderfully in the spirit of this run. Luke Ross does solid work throughout; it's one of those books where the art while not particularly radical is clear and distinct and personal enough that when one of these characters shows up elsewhere for a second I'm going "wait, that's not what they look like..."
After the reboot it looks like Ewing's Ultimates run is going to have the closest thing to a version of this team (Black Panther, Monica Rambeau, Blue Marvel, Miss America, Captain Marvel, and Galactus), and his New Avengers should be interesting too (Sunspot, Squirrel Girl, Hawkeye, Songbird, Hulking and Wiccan). Sad to see this series go but it was damn good while it lasted.
August 3, 2019
This wasn't a bad read, but really throughout the entire volume it felt like you were only getting part of the story. The first half deals with AXIS event, and since the major happenings occurred in that series, we only get a glimpse into things, then its over, and from reading this volume you have no clue how it was resolved. Then we get another storyline that tied into happenings in other books as well. I probably would have enjoyed this more if I had read the myriad other titles this tied into, but I am in the middle of reading a Captain America run which brought me here, so I was at least a little lost through most of it.
That being said, it was still a decent story from what I could gather and the art is decent as well. If you decide to read this just keep in mind this isn't what I'd call a stand alone read.
That being said, it was still a decent story from what I could gather and the art is decent as well. If you decide to read this just keep in mind this isn't what I'd call a stand alone read.
January 9, 2020
I hadn't read the Axis storyline, but the blurb at the front explained what had happened. It took a bit of getting used to (a bad Iron man etc), plus I hadn't really read much with Luke Cage/Jessica Jones. But I loved the artwork and story resolved itself quite nicely.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 16, 2019
The first half of this volume gets pretty totally derailed by the Inversion of AXIS. Suddenly everyone's acting evil, then there's a big Avengers fight, then we don't get the end of the story at all, but instead everyone's good again. It's crossoverism at its worst, though Ewing tries his best to make sure that the crossover has repercussions in the main story.
Meanwhile, we get the slow, meandering tale of two subplots: Gideon Mace and the Cortex Corp. The Mace plot has good roots, but turns into a really dull fight. Meanwhile, the Cortex plot dovetails pretty amazingly into both the Blue Marvel's plot and Monica's otherwise neglected NextWAVE plot. (But isn't it weird that is uses the Beyonders without comment just as they were being used in Time Runs Out!?)
Meanwhile, we get the slow, meandering tale of two subplots: Gideon Mace and the Cortex Corp. The Mace plot has good roots, but turns into a really dull fight. Meanwhile, the Cortex plot dovetails pretty amazingly into both the Blue Marvel's plot and Monica's otherwise neglected NextWAVE plot. (But isn't it weird that is uses the Beyonders without comment just as they were being used in Time Runs Out!?)
July 26, 2015
Decent tie-in with Axis storyline.
I don't have a lot of background on the Cortex storyline so that left me a little lost at times.
I don't have a lot of background on the Cortex storyline so that left me a little lost at times.
July 5, 2016
Though I really dig most of Al Ewing's fun work in Mighty Avengers, this just did not hold up. Art-wise or all together wise, though how much of that can be blamed on the art, I am not sure, ...
March 14, 2022
Collects Captain America & The Mighty Avengers issues #1-7
This collection is a continuation of Al Ewing's short "Mighty Avengers" run, but in the wake of Sam Wilson become Captain America for the first time, the title has been rebranded "Captain America and the Mighty Avengers."
Because of the timing of this rebranding, the first issue opens, and half of the Avengers are evil because of the events of "AXIS," a Marvel event from years ago that I felt so-so on back then, and don't feel like discussing here. I'll only say that re-launching a title in the midst of this storyline made very little sense to me.
The Beyond Corporation showed up in this book, which was noteworthy to me because, as I write this in my present day of 2022, The Beyond Corporation are being heavily featured in an "Amazing Spider-Man" story starring my #1 favorite Marvel character, Ben Reilly. (Minor spoiler for the sake of a connection - There are some faceless scenes that happen here, that are mirrored in some Ben Reilly scenes in 2022.)
I can't remember when I first started liking the character of Blue Marvel, but I believe it would have been from either Ewing's "Mighty Avengers" title, or Ewing's "Ultimates" title. Chronologically, it makes sense that I would have read "Mighty Avengers" first, but I'm not positive that I read it that way. Either way, over the years, Blue Marvel has become one of my very favorite characters in all of Marvel. I like the character's present-day story and backstory, the character design, his power set and intelligence, and the mythology that has been built up around the character. I thought it might be fun to own his first appearance, so I did some research on eBay to see what it was going for, and, unfortunately, it is way out of my price range at this point.
There is a reference to Nextwave in this collection, and I haven't read that book. I'm interested, especially because of the connection to the Beyond Corporation.
Spider-Man is featured in this book a lot more than I expected, and seeing him work out some science with Blue Marvel made me realize that I'd like to see a team of the most intelligent Marvel characters working together to solve the biggest problems. "The Big Brain Avengers." "The Smartest Avengers." "The Science Avengers." I may have to workshop this idea a little bit.
SPOILERS:
As I read this in 2022, I wasn't thinking about where this story fit chronologically within the Marvel Universe, and it totally slipped my mind that this was happening right before Jonathan Hickman's 2015 "Secret Wars." That makes some of the "Beyond" references a little more meaningful, and it appears that the character we see as Jason Quantrell could be a Beyonder, or something else. He provides us with a list of character that come from beyond, and I don't think we've yet seen all of these in the Marvel Universe. Here is his list: "Beyonders, Examiners, Normalizers, Gardeners, Debasers..."
This collection is a continuation of Al Ewing's short "Mighty Avengers" run, but in the wake of Sam Wilson become Captain America for the first time, the title has been rebranded "Captain America and the Mighty Avengers."
Because of the timing of this rebranding, the first issue opens, and half of the Avengers are evil because of the events of "AXIS," a Marvel event from years ago that I felt so-so on back then, and don't feel like discussing here. I'll only say that re-launching a title in the midst of this storyline made very little sense to me.
The Beyond Corporation showed up in this book, which was noteworthy to me because, as I write this in my present day of 2022, The Beyond Corporation are being heavily featured in an "Amazing Spider-Man" story starring my #1 favorite Marvel character, Ben Reilly. (Minor spoiler for the sake of a connection - There are some faceless scenes that happen here, that are mirrored in some Ben Reilly scenes in 2022.)
I can't remember when I first started liking the character of Blue Marvel, but I believe it would have been from either Ewing's "Mighty Avengers" title, or Ewing's "Ultimates" title. Chronologically, it makes sense that I would have read "Mighty Avengers" first, but I'm not positive that I read it that way. Either way, over the years, Blue Marvel has become one of my very favorite characters in all of Marvel. I like the character's present-day story and backstory, the character design, his power set and intelligence, and the mythology that has been built up around the character. I thought it might be fun to own his first appearance, so I did some research on eBay to see what it was going for, and, unfortunately, it is way out of my price range at this point.
There is a reference to Nextwave in this collection, and I haven't read that book. I'm interested, especially because of the connection to the Beyond Corporation.
Spider-Man is featured in this book a lot more than I expected, and seeing him work out some science with Blue Marvel made me realize that I'd like to see a team of the most intelligent Marvel characters working together to solve the biggest problems. "The Big Brain Avengers." "The Smartest Avengers." "The Science Avengers." I may have to workshop this idea a little bit.
SPOILERS:
As I read this in 2022, I wasn't thinking about where this story fit chronologically within the Marvel Universe, and it totally slipped my mind that this was happening right before Jonathan Hickman's 2015 "Secret Wars." That makes some of the "Beyond" references a little more meaningful, and it appears that the character we see as Jason Quantrell could be a Beyonder, or something else. He provides us with a list of character that come from beyond, and I don't think we've yet seen all of these in the Marvel Universe. Here is his list: "Beyonders, Examiners, Normalizers, Gardeners, Debasers..."
May 6, 2022
Końcówka fazy pierwszej fazy Marvel Now! stoi pod szyldem nowości, wśród których debiutuje tytuł "Kapitan Ameryka i Potężni Avengers", wychodząc kilka zeszytów przed "Secret Wars", które zmieni status quo wielu postaci we franczyzie plus rozpoczyna się w trakcie trwania innego wydarzenia, tu zwanego "Axis".
Przez wydarzenie z "Axis" część bohaterów zmieniła swoje charaktery. Źli stali się dobrzy, a dobrzy zapałali chęcią czynienia zła. Wśród nich jest nowy Kapitan Ameryka, czyli były Falcon, Sam Wilson. Chłopak działa prężnie, ale tak jakby wyzbył się hamulców. Jest niezwykle brutalny i wypełnia własne cele biorąc na cel grupę herosów zarządzaną przez Luke'a Cage'a i jego grupę Avengers, gdzie znajduje się m.in. Blue Marvel, White Tiger czy Power Man. Co się stanie gdy grupa odmienionych bohaterów stanie do walki ze swoimi niedawnymi towarzyszami?
A to tylko część odbywających się tutaj wydarzeń. Drugim członem jest walka z Cortex Corporation i i stojącym na jego czele wiecznie uśmiechniętym melomanem, gdzie całość okaże się potężnym zagrożeniem spoza naszego wymiaru. Bohaterom przyjdzie też zmierzyć się mentalnie z konsekwencjami wydarzeń, do jakich doszło w "Axis". Dzieje się sporo i Al Ewing potrafi prowadzić fabułę, ale całość nie jest niczym odkrywczym niestety.
Wygląda na to, że Ross ma całkiem niezły warsztat i jego rysunki wyglądają bardzo ładnie, aczkolwiek jest to coś co akurat jest standardem w dzisiejszym świecie komiksów. Niestety były też momenty przegadane, które stopują tempo historii i bywają nużące, zwłaszcza w tej części uzupełniającej Axis. Potem jest już lepiej.
Przez wydarzenie z "Axis" część bohaterów zmieniła swoje charaktery. Źli stali się dobrzy, a dobrzy zapałali chęcią czynienia zła. Wśród nich jest nowy Kapitan Ameryka, czyli były Falcon, Sam Wilson. Chłopak działa prężnie, ale tak jakby wyzbył się hamulców. Jest niezwykle brutalny i wypełnia własne cele biorąc na cel grupę herosów zarządzaną przez Luke'a Cage'a i jego grupę Avengers, gdzie znajduje się m.in. Blue Marvel, White Tiger czy Power Man. Co się stanie gdy grupa odmienionych bohaterów stanie do walki ze swoimi niedawnymi towarzyszami?
A to tylko część odbywających się tutaj wydarzeń. Drugim członem jest walka z Cortex Corporation i i stojącym na jego czele wiecznie uśmiechniętym melomanem, gdzie całość okaże się potężnym zagrożeniem spoza naszego wymiaru. Bohaterom przyjdzie też zmierzyć się mentalnie z konsekwencjami wydarzeń, do jakich doszło w "Axis". Dzieje się sporo i Al Ewing potrafi prowadzić fabułę, ale całość nie jest niczym odkrywczym niestety.
Wygląda na to, że Ross ma całkiem niezły warsztat i jego rysunki wyglądają bardzo ładnie, aczkolwiek jest to coś co akurat jest standardem w dzisiejszym świecie komiksów. Niestety były też momenty przegadane, które stopują tempo historii i bywają nużące, zwłaszcza w tej części uzupełniającej Axis. Potem jest już lepiej.
January 7, 2023
Yikes.
To evaluate this fairly, I'll preface with saying that my least favorite type of comics are the ones about assholes. I didn't like Ultimates, the Boys, or anything that came out of AXIS and Secret Empire. I like superhero stories about superheroes. This story takes place after Original Sin and the Inversion so 60% of it is characters I like acting like utter douchebags. So, since that's the plot, I can't talk about my sincere disdain for stories like this and can only judge whether I think it accomplished it's goals. And... I don't entirely think it did.
I liked one panel out the entire book. Just one where Sam talks about being Cap meaning fighting even at the darkest hour. That was it. The art was fine most of the time - except Monica's skin was a different shade on every page for some reason.
The writing was my biggest issue. My dislike for stories like this aside, if you told me this was written in 1995, not 2015, I'd believe it. The jokes weren't funny, Spidey was written like an unfunny version of Deadpool and the "lingo" used was so outdated. This is the first book I've finished by this writer and I can only hope the later stuff was much better. The one thing I give him credit for is being one of the very few Marvel writers to care about including characters of color - specifically Black characters. He's consistently used Monica Rambeau and Blue Marvel when other writers pretended they didn't exist and I really do appreciate that.
I just didn't care for this book at all.
To evaluate this fairly, I'll preface with saying that my least favorite type of comics are the ones about assholes. I didn't like Ultimates, the Boys, or anything that came out of AXIS and Secret Empire. I like superhero stories about superheroes. This story takes place after Original Sin and the Inversion so 60% of it is characters I like acting like utter douchebags. So, since that's the plot, I can't talk about my sincere disdain for stories like this and can only judge whether I think it accomplished it's goals. And... I don't entirely think it did.
I liked one panel out the entire book. Just one where Sam talks about being Cap meaning fighting even at the darkest hour. That was it. The art was fine most of the time - except Monica's skin was a different shade on every page for some reason.
The writing was my biggest issue. My dislike for stories like this aside, if you told me this was written in 1995, not 2015, I'd believe it. The jokes weren't funny, Spidey was written like an unfunny version of Deadpool and the "lingo" used was so outdated. This is the first book I've finished by this writer and I can only hope the later stuff was much better. The one thing I give him credit for is being one of the very few Marvel writers to care about including characters of color - specifically Black characters. He's consistently used Monica Rambeau and Blue Marvel when other writers pretended they didn't exist and I really do appreciate that.
I just didn't care for this book at all.
October 15, 2025
The Axis event... was kind of hit and miss. And this volume is a big miss in my opinion.
This is one of the first times we get to see Sam as Captain America - and he starts off as a villain! I mean, the planning for this was just... not there. Anyone taking over for Steve Rogers as Cap was going to be controversial, and in modern times, Sam taking over was and is kind of a big deal. So to present him as huge dick and a murderous authoritarian... its just bad foresight.
Luke Cage and the others are also villains, and this book... its trying to establish a new Avengers team, and instead of getting into the team dynamics and personality quirks, we get a team of genuinely dislikeable people masquerading as the good guys. Again not to harp on this point but, its just not a good way to introduce new concepts that you are banking on being pillars in the MCU. In my opinion at least.
Definitely a low point, this one is best left to completionists of the Axis event only.
This is one of the first times we get to see Sam as Captain America - and he starts off as a villain! I mean, the planning for this was just... not there. Anyone taking over for Steve Rogers as Cap was going to be controversial, and in modern times, Sam taking over was and is kind of a big deal. So to present him as huge dick and a murderous authoritarian... its just bad foresight.
Luke Cage and the others are also villains, and this book... its trying to establish a new Avengers team, and instead of getting into the team dynamics and personality quirks, we get a team of genuinely dislikeable people masquerading as the good guys. Again not to harp on this point but, its just not a good way to introduce new concepts that you are banking on being pillars in the MCU. In my opinion at least.
Definitely a low point, this one is best left to completionists of the Axis event only.
November 3, 2023
I’ve been going back to some of Al Ewing’s earlier work now that he’s become such a prominent voice in Marvel. Turns out I didn’t go back far enough. This book is not particularly new reader friendly; it’s very much a continuation of his Mighty Avengers run. It also features “different” versions of some of the characters who have been changed in some way by the notoriously bad AXIS event. I haven’t seen this many editors’ notes in a book in a minute. For better or worse, Ewing loves leaning into the continuity of the universe. It makes many of his books richer (Immortal Hulk, The Defenders) but it can also be frustrating at times (SWORD).
September 22, 2019
I always liked the various teams of Avengers that have been created, so I decided to have a read of
Captain America and the Mighty Avengers: Open for Business (Vol. 1)
. I wasn't sure what was happening at the start, what with some of the Avengers acting in the opposite way they would usually act (Inverted Avengers, which comes from another storyline); however once I got my head around what was happening, it turned out to be a great read. Moving on to
Captain America and the Mighty Avengers: Last Days (Vol. 2)
to see how things turn out.
November 9, 2019
This should not have been a new number one issue. It was weird having a first issue where everyone was out of character because of Axis. And, after the crossover issues, the plot from the previous books continued. This is the least approachable first issue one can find.
I like Al Ewing's character work. I'm not as big a fan of his plots. The crossover's don't help, of course. The art was not good. Pretty sure Luke Ross swiped images from other artists.
This would have been a meh volume 4. It was a failure of a volume 1.
I like Al Ewing's character work. I'm not as big a fan of his plots. The crossover's don't help, of course. The art was not good. Pretty sure Luke Ross swiped images from other artists.
This would have been a meh volume 4. It was a failure of a volume 1.
August 14, 2019
This book starts with a boring tie in to a Marvel event, Axis where some characters have their morality flipped, not a good start to a book. But after that ends it moves into much more interesting space story wise, strong finish has me interested in how this series ends in its next volume.
Art was pretty solid throughout, the Luke Ross issues looked very nice, the Iban Coello ones were pleasant to look at as well.
Art was pretty solid throughout, the Luke Ross issues looked very nice, the Iban Coello ones were pleasant to look at as well.
September 11, 2019
You add Axis to a "new" series and you get a twenty car pileup of terrible. First off, this is billed as a new series but its a continuation of Mighty Avengers. New readers will be lost. Then on top of it the tie-in to Axis which was awful. The Axis parts here were incredibly lame and I can't imagine who would have enjoyed them. The many villains are all throwaways. The art by Luke Ross was very good though. Overall, a dismal beginning which really isn't.
May 28, 2020
3.5. I rounded up.
This is decent. On think I liked is that it’s an unofficial sequel to Nextwave, which is cool. Monica Rambeau is really fun to watch here.
On the down side, half the collection is paying lip service to the atrocious Axis event. Much of it seems unbalanced.
I wasn’t crazy with the pacing and exposition. It seemed hasty and jumbled, as if Ewing just wanted to get to the climax without earning it.
The art truly was rad though.
It’s a decent read, but hardly great.
This is decent. On think I liked is that it’s an unofficial sequel to Nextwave, which is cool. Monica Rambeau is really fun to watch here.
On the down side, half the collection is paying lip service to the atrocious Axis event. Much of it seems unbalanced.
I wasn’t crazy with the pacing and exposition. It seemed hasty and jumbled, as if Ewing just wanted to get to the climax without earning it.
The art truly was rad though.
It’s a decent read, but hardly great.
August 7, 2024
4/10:
In reality, this doesn’t feel like a Captain America story, more of a Mighty Avengers story. Why is that? Because Sam Wilson is already a member of the Mighty Avengers!
There’s a lot of connecting to various events throughout this time period of Marvel Comics (namely Axis), and honestly, the disconnects are too massive to enjoy this as a standalone collection. I’m very disappointed and hope that the second volume of this run can salvage it.
In reality, this doesn’t feel like a Captain America story, more of a Mighty Avengers story. Why is that? Because Sam Wilson is already a member of the Mighty Avengers!
There’s a lot of connecting to various events throughout this time period of Marvel Comics (namely Axis), and honestly, the disconnects are too massive to enjoy this as a standalone collection. I’m very disappointed and hope that the second volume of this run can salvage it.
June 23, 2019
Spun out of Inversion/Axis its a bit of a detour from Ewings Mighty Avengers run. But ita extremely optimisitc and I enjoy the tone.
Few writers write solidly enjoyable superhero yarns that aren't spun out of angst, deconstruction, etc
Ewing and Gillen and Aaron are the few Marvel writers that Ive enjoyed outside of Coates
Few writers write solidly enjoyable superhero yarns that aren't spun out of angst, deconstruction, etc
Ewing and Gillen and Aaron are the few Marvel writers that Ive enjoyed outside of Coates
September 16, 2020
The first half deals with the event Axis, which is fine if your reading that Event. I gave 3 star because it was an easy read and I'm exciting to see what happens with this team. I don't know the other characters as well but I love Luke Cage and hope to see more of him and his family.
November 25, 2020
Barely digestible. Apparently tied in to other stories not in this collection, so you finish an issue with a Big Problem, and Big Problem is resolved in some other series. Also, who are all these new heroes?
January 19, 2021
Captain America and the Mighty Avengers
Vol. 1 is pretty good, the artwork and color uses were great. Like the stories, the good vs the good/bad Avengers. Then everyone works together to defeat evil. Works every time.
Vol. 1 is pretty good, the artwork and color uses were great. Like the stories, the good vs the good/bad Avengers. Then everyone works together to defeat evil. Works every time.
January 15, 2018
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August 18, 2018
I didn't enjoy this comic as much as other comics. It referenced so many other comics that it became confusing. The part with the Beyond Corporation was also a little odd.
October 26, 2018
Two stories with the falcon as Cap America. One during the Axis story and directly afterwards fighting the Beyond Corporation
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