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Avengers (1996) #1-12
Heroes Reborn: Avengers
Collects Heroes Reborn: Avengers #1-12. Cap, Thor, the Vision, Hawkeye, Hellcat, Mantis and more: and villains appearing as fast as they can assemble! Revised versions of Ultron, the Radioactive Man, the Grim Reaper and many more! Plus, the Heroes Reborn Universe only got a piece of the Hulk - but, darn it, it may still be more than it can handle!
294 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 10, 2006
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Rob Liefeld
805 books80 followersRob Liefeld is an American comic book writer, illustrator, and publisher. A prominent artist in the 1990s, he has since become a controversial figure in the medium.
In the early 1990s, self-taught artist Liefeld became prominent due to his work on Marvel Comics' The New Mutants and later X-Force. In 1992, he and several other popular Marvel illustrators left the company to found Image Comics, which rode the wave of comic books owned by their creators rather than by publishers. The first book published by Image Comics was Rob Liefeld's Youngblood #1.
He is married to actress Joy Creel.
In the early 1990s, self-taught artist Liefeld became prominent due to his work on Marvel Comics' The New Mutants and later X-Force. In 1992, he and several other popular Marvel illustrators left the company to found Image Comics, which rode the wave of comic books owned by their creators rather than by publishers. The first book published by Image Comics was Rob Liefeld's Youngblood #1.
He is married to actress Joy Creel.
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May 1, 2015
Oh Liefeld...
Marvel actually may have been genius if they were truly trying to capture a pocket universe as created by Franklin Richards as they hired a man who proceeded to write this comic like it was written by a child.
However if they wanted to produce a good comic, they failed miserably.
When Simonson comes on he does a little meta joking (like explicitly questioning the quality of writing) but he does not salvage the book.
Marvel actually may have been genius if they were truly trying to capture a pocket universe as created by Franklin Richards as they hired a man who proceeded to write this comic like it was written by a child.
However if they wanted to produce a good comic, they failed miserably.
When Simonson comes on he does a little meta joking (like explicitly questioning the quality of writing) but he does not salvage the book.
May 25, 2017
Oh my god, this was terrible. Why. WHY was this allowed to go to print? What even, people. I'm not sure if the whole "pocket universe created by the Richard's kid" was set from the beginning or if the fans shamed the writers into fixing this shit in Heroes Reborn: The Return and frankly, I don't care. This was just embarrassing to read.
June 6, 2015
Read all 4 Heroes Reborn graphic novels at the same time, in continuity order.
The Avengers was pretty straight forward, and felt like a linking book between the other 3. The in depth focus on SHIELD and Hulk's internal stuff, plus the Liefeld art, make this one better than some of the others, but not stand out too much.
Recommend.
The Avengers was pretty straight forward, and felt like a linking book between the other 3. The in depth focus on SHIELD and Hulk's internal stuff, plus the Liefeld art, make this one better than some of the others, but not stand out too much.
Recommend.
August 10, 2014
Truly Marvel's lowest point, ever. Walt Simonson takes over writing chores on the last couple of issues, trying his best to salvage this deep sea wreck. Book contains several stories that are uncompleate, cross-overs to other titles.
March 31, 2022
Reprints Heroes Reborn: The Avengers #1-12 (November 1986-October 1997). The Avengers are dead…killed by Onslaught. When Loki finds himself in a new world and a new team of Avengers in front of him, he quickly forgets his past and sees new opportunity. The Avengers are young team and still trying to find their feet in the world…but the danger is growing quickly and their world might not last long.
Written by Rob Liefeld, Jim Valentino, Jeph Loeb, and Walt Simonson, Heroes Reborn: The Avengers is a Marvel Comics superhero comic book collection. Released following the events of Onslaught and part of the Heroes Reborn event series, the collection features art by Chap Yaep, Rob Liefeld, Ian Churchill, Michael Ryan, and Anthony Winn. Issues in the collection have also been featured in Heroes Reborn Omnibus and Marvel Universe by Rob Liefeld Omnibus among others. Not included in the collection is Heroes Reborn: The Avengers #13 (November 1997) which was released as part of an Image Comics crossover storyline called World War 3.
While I didn’t like Heroes Reborn ending the long running legacy titles of Avengers, Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America, I also knew it would be temporary and potentially fun. When Heroes Reborn was released (each with a shiny, hip creative team), I learned that big names don’t always lead to big titles…Heroes Reborn: The Avengers is a great example of that.
Heroes Reborn created a clean slate for Marvel’s top tier superhero comics that were not “X” based. This collection features a lot of the original Avengers launch (with Loki manipulating the team and everyone), but it also featured a hodgepodge reconstruction of the team which included a reimagined Hellcat and the Swordsman. Unfortunately, the comic book has no flow and feels very stutter-y. The creators try to touch on a lot of Avengers early plotlines (Kang, Masters of Evil, etc.), but they are also interrupted with crossover with other Heroes Reborn titles (the crossover aren’t included here which is a whole different problem since summaries of some of the events are even provided).
The problem is that all of the “reimagined” creations feel like a downgrade from the original. The characters are made less interesting in this relaunch and the character designs by Liefeld are quite bad (Hellcat looks like he just ripped off his other creation Feral from X-Force). This is combined with some typical disproportionate Liefeld art for the first seven issues where he serves as artist (I don’t even understand what is happening with his leggy Enchantress). Instead of wanting to read more about the characters, I kind of wanted them all to die again…but more horrible than the Onslaught fight in which they were perceived dead.
In general, Heroes Reborn was a completely missed opportunity. The creators feel uncommitted to it and continuously built “outs” from the onset. It is filler instead of something original. The series was meant to be a return to Marvel from the upstarts that formed Image, but the comic book demonstrates that some of them should have left for good. With poorly crafted fights, bad character designs, and a plot that slogs along, Heroes Reborn: The Avengers can just be skipped and forgotten. The Avengers relaunched and was followed by the Kurt Busiek and George Perez reimagining of the team collected in Avengers by Kurt Busiek & George Perez Omnibus—Volume 1.
Written by Rob Liefeld, Jim Valentino, Jeph Loeb, and Walt Simonson, Heroes Reborn: The Avengers is a Marvel Comics superhero comic book collection. Released following the events of Onslaught and part of the Heroes Reborn event series, the collection features art by Chap Yaep, Rob Liefeld, Ian Churchill, Michael Ryan, and Anthony Winn. Issues in the collection have also been featured in Heroes Reborn Omnibus and Marvel Universe by Rob Liefeld Omnibus among others. Not included in the collection is Heroes Reborn: The Avengers #13 (November 1997) which was released as part of an Image Comics crossover storyline called World War 3.
While I didn’t like Heroes Reborn ending the long running legacy titles of Avengers, Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America, I also knew it would be temporary and potentially fun. When Heroes Reborn was released (each with a shiny, hip creative team), I learned that big names don’t always lead to big titles…Heroes Reborn: The Avengers is a great example of that.
Heroes Reborn created a clean slate for Marvel’s top tier superhero comics that were not “X” based. This collection features a lot of the original Avengers launch (with Loki manipulating the team and everyone), but it also featured a hodgepodge reconstruction of the team which included a reimagined Hellcat and the Swordsman. Unfortunately, the comic book has no flow and feels very stutter-y. The creators try to touch on a lot of Avengers early plotlines (Kang, Masters of Evil, etc.), but they are also interrupted with crossover with other Heroes Reborn titles (the crossover aren’t included here which is a whole different problem since summaries of some of the events are even provided).
The problem is that all of the “reimagined” creations feel like a downgrade from the original. The characters are made less interesting in this relaunch and the character designs by Liefeld are quite bad (Hellcat looks like he just ripped off his other creation Feral from X-Force). This is combined with some typical disproportionate Liefeld art for the first seven issues where he serves as artist (I don’t even understand what is happening with his leggy Enchantress). Instead of wanting to read more about the characters, I kind of wanted them all to die again…but more horrible than the Onslaught fight in which they were perceived dead.
In general, Heroes Reborn was a completely missed opportunity. The creators feel uncommitted to it and continuously built “outs” from the onset. It is filler instead of something original. The series was meant to be a return to Marvel from the upstarts that formed Image, but the comic book demonstrates that some of them should have left for good. With poorly crafted fights, bad character designs, and a plot that slogs along, Heroes Reborn: The Avengers can just be skipped and forgotten. The Avengers relaunched and was followed by the Kurt Busiek and George Perez reimagining of the team collected in Avengers by Kurt Busiek & George Perez Omnibus—Volume 1.
September 26, 2019
Oh boy. Reviewers have talked about how horrible the "Heroes Reborn" thing was, how it took established, loved characters and origins and turned them on their ears. I read the Fantastic Four compilation first, and was wondering what all the bad hype was about - yes, the origin story was "tweaked" a bit, and the characters' personalities were a bit different, but it was still decent reading. (And, if you read my review of that book, you'll know how much I loved the Stan Lee-esque dialog and text.
Then I got to this. The first thing I noticed was how so many Avengers characters looked so much like Liefeld's X-Force characters: Shatterstar/Swordsman, Cable/Nick Fury, and especially Feral/Hellcat. Slap some big X-es on these guys and they're almost identical to X-Force. The next thing I noticed was the horrible, horrible Thor dialog - like "Dosteth thee sayethest that to me-eth?" (I'm not exaggerating; it was really that bad.) It took me most of the book (and the appearance of the "real" Thor) to realize that this is some sort of alternative Thor. (And I still don't completely understand who he was and where he came from). And that leads to my third complaint - the convoluted, hectic plot. The Avengers jump from one huge disaster to the next, with no time in between to digest or make sense of what has happened.
The saving grace to this pile of... comics? An appearance by Kang the Conquerer (though even that was marred by the horrible way Liefeld portrayed Mantis, one of my favorite underused Marvel characters - and yes, it was even worse than the way she was portrayed in the Guardians of the Galaxy movie).
Then I got to this. The first thing I noticed was how so many Avengers characters looked so much like Liefeld's X-Force characters: Shatterstar/Swordsman, Cable/Nick Fury, and especially Feral/Hellcat. Slap some big X-es on these guys and they're almost identical to X-Force. The next thing I noticed was the horrible, horrible Thor dialog - like "Dosteth thee sayethest that to me-eth?" (I'm not exaggerating; it was really that bad.) It took me most of the book (and the appearance of the "real" Thor) to realize that this is some sort of alternative Thor. (And I still don't completely understand who he was and where he came from). And that leads to my third complaint - the convoluted, hectic plot. The Avengers jump from one huge disaster to the next, with no time in between to digest or make sense of what has happened.
The saving grace to this pile of... comics? An appearance by Kang the Conquerer (though even that was marred by the horrible way Liefeld portrayed Mantis, one of my favorite underused Marvel characters - and yes, it was even worse than the way she was portrayed in the Guardians of the Galaxy movie).
March 23, 2025
Heroes Reborn: Avengers #1-12.
Calificación 3.5/5 estrellas
The Avenger Thor Odinson es una Mary Sue.Thor es un cobarde que pelea con un martillo mágico y siempre es ayudado por su daddy Odin.
Pero principalmente lo que más me gustó fue como Hulk derrota a los Avengers fácilmente y sobre todo como humilló a Thor Dios del trueno, cuando este asgariano dejó de pelear con Mjolnir, demostrando así de claro que Hulk Smash.
Esto hizo enojar a los fans de Thor ricitos de oro, los ejecutivos de Marvel pidieron a gritos la salida de Rob Liefeld y su estudio incluidos Loeb y Churchill para traer a Walter Simonson como experto en Thor como escritor y tratar de borrar la paliza a Thor Odison y así fácilmente inventando que no era el Thor original sino un Doppelgänger jajajajaja.
Calificación 3.5/5 estrellas
The Avenger Thor Odinson es una Mary Sue.Thor es un cobarde que pelea con un martillo mágico y siempre es ayudado por su daddy Odin.
Pero principalmente lo que más me gustó fue como Hulk derrota a los Avengers fácilmente y sobre todo como humilló a Thor Dios del trueno, cuando este asgariano dejó de pelear con Mjolnir, demostrando así de claro que Hulk Smash.
Esto hizo enojar a los fans de Thor ricitos de oro, los ejecutivos de Marvel pidieron a gritos la salida de Rob Liefeld y su estudio incluidos Loeb y Churchill para traer a Walter Simonson como experto en Thor como escritor y tratar de borrar la paliza a Thor Odison y así fácilmente inventando que no era el Thor original sino un Doppelgänger jajajajaja.
May 28, 2019
The Heroes Reborn series reprints a good attempt one-year effort to re-imagine essential characters in the Marvel Comics universe. This represents the first time Marvel attempted to restart and modernize storylines launched by Stan Lee in the '60s. The storyline weaves through three other Heroes Reborn titles (Iron Man, Captain America, and The Avengers), so readers must have access to all four to keep pace with and appreciate the scope of these titles. Demands to introduce more and more characters rushes the action at times, but readers familiar these longtime fan favorites will enjoy the experience.
December 22, 2024
This was probably the weakest of the four Heroes Reborn titles, probably because it didn't have a big name artist attached like the other three. The story was a little all over the place, and the art was inconsistent. Loki was floating around confused, but he was the first to figure out it was an alternate dimension...or something.
I think liked it more than most readers, but this was still a bit of a mess.
I think liked it more than most readers, but this was still a bit of a mess.
May 3, 2025
Although somewhat better in the second half, this is a bad book. The writing is confusing and (even by comic book standards) illogical, the dialogue (particularly Thor and Loki) is awful and Rob Liefeld's artwork. Wow. Muscles upon muscles on his men, and I'm not sure how his female characters manage to walk, stand up straight or do anything.
2 stars as it's an interesting look into mid 90's Marvel and it does get better as the "story" progresses.
2 stars as it's an interesting look into mid 90's Marvel and it does get better as the "story" progresses.
September 1, 2018
Yeesh, the first half of these comics are simply awful. Walt Simonson comes onboard to write the second half, doing the best he can with what he was given, and poking fun at a lot of it as well, but there's only so much damage control he can do.
May 5, 2024
Another winner for probably the worst monthly book in the Avenger's lifespan right here.
May 23, 2025
Slog to get through, not a fan of the art style and character designs. Writing wasn’t great either. It was cool having lots of different villains in it but it didn’t have any fun
January 29, 2016
I was not impressed with Marvel's attempt at a relaunch of many of it's main titles. The art was Ok and the stories were not horrible but I just couldn't seem to get into the flow of the new series. I will give it a Recommended as it's a good read just not to my taste.
August 31, 2011
Pretty interesting re-imagining by a talented group of folks, but since this story crosses over with other titles *which aren't included here*, it does get confusing every now n' again.
March 13, 2012
Bad artwork and confusing storyline. I think its set in an alternate dimension.
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