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Avengers West Coast Epic Collection
Avengers West Coast Epic Collection, Vol. 1: How The West Was Won
Earth's Mightiest Heroes go west! When Vision creates a second squad, Hawkeye grabs the first quinjet to California to lead the West Coast Avengers! And the "Whackos" assemble as Hawkeye is joined by his new bride Mockingbird, Wonder Man, Tigra and an Iron Man or two! But will local vigilante the Shroud join the team? How about Firebird, Hank "Ant-Man" Pym, or the ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing?! The West Coasters quickly make their own enemies -including the Blank, Graviton, Master Pandemonium and a villainous Goliath! Plus, Tigra is targeted by Kraven the Hunter! Wonder Man battles Sandman! And Vision and Scarlet Witch lend a hand against the Grim Reaper and Ultron! COLLECTING: VOL. 1: WEST COAST AVENGERS (1984) 1-4, IRON MAN ANNUAL 7, AVENGERS (1963) 250, WEST COAST AVENGERS (1985) 1-7, VISION AND THE SCARLET WITCH (1985) 1-2, WONDER MAN (1986) 1
496 pages, Paperback
First published September 26, 2018
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April 3, 2022
"RUN, DAD! RUN! I'LL HOLD HIM BACK!"
- Ultron 12 to Hank Pym, while battling Ulton 11.
Holy spandex soap opera!
Yeah, this book has it all: Graviton, terminally ill Sandman, newlyweds, Kraven the hunter, Tigra in heat, Maelstrom, evil Goliath, sentimental Ultron, Black Talon and Zombies, jet cycles, a black albino vampire in love with the Grim Reaper, trick arrows, the land of the cat people, Man-Ape, an exploding gas station, Madame Masque, legitimate scientists with tiny dick syndrome, Wonder Man in his own title, a villain with a hollow body who can detach his limbs and turn them into Demons, constant references to Secret Wars, Hawkeye wearing an apron...
The only thing we're missing is a kitchen sink.
The 80's TV influence here is as clear as MacGyver's mullet. The melodrama. The ridiculous (but less laughable) villains. Yeah, I know it's a comic book and it's supposed to be over-the-top. But the tone of comics changed since the 60's. Hell, by the late 70's, comics began exploring more mature themes. Bigotry, lynching, domestic violence, divorce, singles cruises for senior citizens. Yet it was still presented in a way that younger readers could easily digest.
Avengers West Coast was a gamble but it worked well, unlike Great Lakes Avengers.
Plenty of backstory.
Interesting team dynamics.
Fun, fun, fun. Four stars!
- Ultron 12 to Hank Pym, while battling Ulton 11.
Holy spandex soap opera!
Yeah, this book has it all: Graviton, terminally ill Sandman, newlyweds, Kraven the hunter, Tigra in heat, Maelstrom, evil Goliath, sentimental Ultron, Black Talon and Zombies, jet cycles, a black albino vampire in love with the Grim Reaper, trick arrows, the land of the cat people, Man-Ape, an exploding gas station, Madame Masque, legitimate scientists with tiny dick syndrome, Wonder Man in his own title, a villain with a hollow body who can detach his limbs and turn them into Demons, constant references to Secret Wars, Hawkeye wearing an apron...
The only thing we're missing is a kitchen sink.
The 80's TV influence here is as clear as MacGyver's mullet. The melodrama. The ridiculous (but less laughable) villains. Yeah, I know it's a comic book and it's supposed to be over-the-top. But the tone of comics changed since the 60's. Hell, by the late 70's, comics began exploring more mature themes. Bigotry, lynching, domestic violence, divorce, singles cruises for senior citizens. Yet it was still presented in a way that younger readers could easily digest.
Avengers West Coast was a gamble but it worked well, unlike Great Lakes Avengers.
Plenty of backstory.
Interesting team dynamics.
Fun, fun, fun. Four stars!
September 10, 2023
This is a review about the excess team of the Avengers situated on the East coast. (No Mr Steed or Emma Peel involved here).
Hawkeye, well known from the movies, is the leader of these Avengers, together with his wife Mockingbird, Wonder man, Tigra and Iron man, in two versions namely the replacement for alcoholic Tony Stark and later Tony again, are the main characters. A variety of gueststars join the team most notorious Ben Grimm from the fantastic 4.
The stories are very seventies which is recognizable for an old guy like me who discovered superheroes in those years through the kids comics of American soldiers stationed in the Netherlands.
Good fun, good thing about this collection is that they left the stories intact even if that meant using various titles in this collection that starred the west coast Avengers. So you get to follow the stories pretty decently. However it is all a bit dated, but fun as I wrote before.
Hawkeye, well known from the movies, is the leader of these Avengers, together with his wife Mockingbird, Wonder man, Tigra and Iron man, in two versions namely the replacement for alcoholic Tony Stark and later Tony again, are the main characters. A variety of gueststars join the team most notorious Ben Grimm from the fantastic 4.
The stories are very seventies which is recognizable for an old guy like me who discovered superheroes in those years through the kids comics of American soldiers stationed in the Netherlands.
Good fun, good thing about this collection is that they left the stories intact even if that meant using various titles in this collection that starred the west coast Avengers. So you get to follow the stories pretty decently. However it is all a bit dated, but fun as I wrote before.
July 22, 2022
The West Coast Avengers were my favorite super hero group when I was a kid so when I saw the omnibus editions at the library I decided to reread them as an adult. All I can say is you can never go home again. The writing is stilted and still uses the heroic bombast of the 70s era comics and the art is serviceable but not great. The story arcs are full of heroic action and slightly misogynistic dialog with the subtlety of a big rig going 80. All this being said I enjoyed the introduction of some of the lesser known heroes and villains that show up infrequently in todays comic book world. I also enjoyed how you can see the writers writing characters that are now known and loved but at the time didn't quite nail it down yet so you can see glimpses of what our heroes will become but they just arent there yet.
So while I didnt love this, I enjoyed some of it. So worth a read for some but will not convert anyone.
So while I didnt love this, I enjoyed some of it. So worth a read for some but will not convert anyone.
April 11, 2025
3.5 stars
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April 7, 2020Much like Alpha Flight, a series that was around the fringes when I first started reading superhero comics, and which as such makes for a perfect nostalgia read in trying times; I'm so glad I broke my usual £2.99 rule on Comixology sales to grab a bunch of £3.99 Epic Collections in a sale months back, because huge tranches of soapy eighties spandex are exactly what I need right now. After a bit of preamble extracted from standard Avengers issues of the time, the story proper begins with the original miniseries from Roger Stern and Bob Hall, which is exactly what I was after – nothing of which even I could mount a defence as great art, but solid eighties heroics, with all the defiant poses, clunky expositional dialogue and outlandish powers that entails. Better still, the big bad is Graviton, and after Ian Hart played him in one of the few half-decent Agents Of SHIELD episodes, I kept picturing how he'd look in the original character's super-flamboyant body-stocking and cape.
Alas, after a couple of annuals and team-ups, we're then on to the ongoing series, and for all that the miniseries was more retro fun than deathless art, initially this is often just bad. Steve Englehart turns Tigra from a novice Avenger with doubts – but also a fearsome force – into a feeble, petulant creature who, with her feline side rising, is now scared of water and desperate for affection. Special mention must be made of the line "Mmm, whatever other feelings I may have, I do like men – and men like me! I'd never have been this free if I'd stayed Greer Nelson the feminist!" It makes one positively long for the innocent datedness of the earlier scene where she's lamenting that there's not much call for a catgirl model.
Nor does the art help; Al Milgrom's faces and figures are stiff and awkward, though mercifully in the later issues he's only doing layouts while the finish is by the far more satisfactory likes of Kyle Baker. And the story immediately gets embroiled in a crossover with the Vision & Scarlet Witch miniseries which finds a key role for Black Talon – a voodoo supervillain who would probably come off as quite racist even were he not a black man dressed as a chicken. Oh, and also he's teamed up with the Man-Ape, whose alias was so wisely dropped when he appeared in the Black Panther film. To be fair, this does then lean into a subplot about how racism is bad - though it's interesting how little it bothers black albino sorceress Nekra.
Still, once that mess is done, things do pick up. The story also brings reliable fuck-up Hank Pym to LA, where he refuses to get back in costume but is happy to serve as the team's manager, trouble-magnet and wind-up merchant. Soon Ben Grimm is there too, getting increasingly vexed at Hawkeye's refusal to take no for an answer (not like that, thank heavens), and so is novice hero Firebird, desperate for the same invite despite it never coming. Iron Man, having been secretly Rhodey for the miniseries, is now Tony again, and in the red and white armour that always gives me a little buzz of old familiarity, though if I ever knew I'd forgotten the daft flared base its helmet initially had. We get the the debut appearance of demon-limbed twat Master Pandemonium – and how weird it is to see him being played as a serious threat – and a trip to the World Within (within what? A good question, and one that does crop up) to meet cat people, which is interesting given I'd always had the West Coast team in my head as slightly more street-level than the standard Avengers. We even get cameos from a very thinly disguised 'Arnold Schwarzburger' and a not at all disguised Dino de Laurentiis, and who could have imagined at the time that the former would go on to be LA's governor? The collection wraps up with a bumper-length Wonder Man solo special, which despite that being a phrase to chill the blood, turns out to in fact be quite fun.
Alas, after a couple of annuals and team-ups, we're then on to the ongoing series, and for all that the miniseries was more retro fun than deathless art, initially this is often just bad. Steve Englehart turns Tigra from a novice Avenger with doubts – but also a fearsome force – into a feeble, petulant creature who, with her feline side rising, is now scared of water and desperate for affection. Special mention must be made of the line "Mmm, whatever other feelings I may have, I do like men – and men like me! I'd never have been this free if I'd stayed Greer Nelson the feminist!" It makes one positively long for the innocent datedness of the earlier scene where she's lamenting that there's not much call for a catgirl model.
Nor does the art help; Al Milgrom's faces and figures are stiff and awkward, though mercifully in the later issues he's only doing layouts while the finish is by the far more satisfactory likes of Kyle Baker. And the story immediately gets embroiled in a crossover with the Vision & Scarlet Witch miniseries which finds a key role for Black Talon – a voodoo supervillain who would probably come off as quite racist even were he not a black man dressed as a chicken. Oh, and also he's teamed up with the Man-Ape, whose alias was so wisely dropped when he appeared in the Black Panther film. To be fair, this does then lean into a subplot about how racism is bad - though it's interesting how little it bothers black albino sorceress Nekra.
Still, once that mess is done, things do pick up. The story also brings reliable fuck-up Hank Pym to LA, where he refuses to get back in costume but is happy to serve as the team's manager, trouble-magnet and wind-up merchant. Soon Ben Grimm is there too, getting increasingly vexed at Hawkeye's refusal to take no for an answer (not like that, thank heavens), and so is novice hero Firebird, desperate for the same invite despite it never coming. Iron Man, having been secretly Rhodey for the miniseries, is now Tony again, and in the red and white armour that always gives me a little buzz of old familiarity, though if I ever knew I'd forgotten the daft flared base its helmet initially had. We get the the debut appearance of demon-limbed twat Master Pandemonium – and how weird it is to see him being played as a serious threat – and a trip to the World Within (within what? A good question, and one that does crop up) to meet cat people, which is interesting given I'd always had the West Coast team in my head as slightly more street-level than the standard Avengers. We even get cameos from a very thinly disguised 'Arnold Schwarzburger' and a not at all disguised Dino de Laurentiis, and who could have imagined at the time that the former would go on to be LA's governor? The collection wraps up with a bumper-length Wonder Man solo special, which despite that being a phrase to chill the blood, turns out to in fact be quite fun.
April 30, 2020
I first read these stories as individual issue when they were first coming out. In this inaugural volume for the Whackos there are actually what I see as two arcs. The first being the issue of the Avengers that set them up and the 4-issue mini-series that launched them. And the second part is the ongoing issues of the series by a favorite writer of mine, Steve Englehart.
The first part was great. I loved it and was both greatly disappointed that it was ending and absolutely thrilled that the subsequent regular series would be starting up. Roger Stern, Brett Breeding and Bob Hall did a wonderful job giving the reader a lot to enjoy in those first 4-issues.
The second half is a bit more of a problem for me. While the art didn’t agree with me all the time, I’m not really a big fan of Al Milgrom’s art style, Steve Englehart’s characterization of the team members was wonderful. There are moments that I feared things may have gone too far, Tigra’s first character arc was kind of a disaster, but the melodrama always served the plot in some fashion or other. Still, it’s often difficult for me to get passed what I see as a clunky art style that more readily uses the suggestion of fluid motion than actually displaying motion. Still, I stuck with the series much longer than I’d expected to and it developed into some really great stories.
The first part was great. I loved it and was both greatly disappointed that it was ending and absolutely thrilled that the subsequent regular series would be starting up. Roger Stern, Brett Breeding and Bob Hall did a wonderful job giving the reader a lot to enjoy in those first 4-issues.
The second half is a bit more of a problem for me. While the art didn’t agree with me all the time, I’m not really a big fan of Al Milgrom’s art style, Steve Englehart’s characterization of the team members was wonderful. There are moments that I feared things may have gone too far, Tigra’s first character arc was kind of a disaster, but the melodrama always served the plot in some fashion or other. Still, it’s often difficult for me to get passed what I see as a clunky art style that more readily uses the suggestion of fluid motion than actually displaying motion. Still, I stuck with the series much longer than I’d expected to and it developed into some really great stories.
June 3, 2021
Strange reading this one AFTER I had already read two through four, but I'm glad I was able to go back to the beginning. I really enjoy the West Coast team. There is a lot of great personalities. I'm also a big fan of Silver Centurion Armor Tony is rocking through most of this book. Some people think that armor is just the worst, but I've always liked it.
January 1, 2023
Good fun
No A-listers...yet, but we yet a lot of background on some up and comers. We do get some appearances from Thing, Ultron, and the Avenger proper, but we also learn a lot about Tigra, Firebird, Mockingbird, and Wonder Man. By the end, the team finds their groove. Great art throughout.
No A-listers...yet, but we yet a lot of background on some up and comers. We do get some appearances from Thing, Ultron, and the Avenger proper, but we also learn a lot about Tigra, Firebird, Mockingbird, and Wonder Man. By the end, the team finds their groove. Great art throughout.
April 13, 2023
Was okay. Just kind of the run of the mill story. Hawkeye being this happy is fucking weird LOL. But it had some fun moments even if the fights felt weightless and we knew nothing bad would happen to our heroes. What I'm saying is, this is lighthearted fun but could have but more stakes into it to make it more interesting.
May 11, 2020
I loved the Avengers and the creation of the West Coast team was an exciting prospect. I liked revisiting these stories again after over 30 years.
April 9, 2024
The original miniseries by Bob Hall and Roger Stern (one of Marvel's most charming scribes) is a blast. Hawkeye, who was normally the brash and hotheaded lancer of the Avengers (think the MCU's Tony Stark), must step up and lead his own Avengers team. Now the brash guy has to be the responsible guy. That writes itself!
Then, throw in a great cast of characters to fill out the roster, and you've got a winner. James Rhodes as Iron Man (filling in for Tony Stark, who was battling alcoholism at the time this was published), who is trying to match the feats of his predecessor. Wonder Man, a major also-ran Avenger, who's not even sure being a superhero is his thing. Mockingbird, a badass SHIELD agent (think the MCU's Black Widow), who's now in a much more public facing role than she's used to. Tigra, a weird C-list superhero who got cat powers from a cat god or something (I don't really know, to be honest). You basically have Impostor Syndrome: The Team.
The same is true for the villain Graviton, a baddie from the Jim Shooter/Sal Buscema era of Avengers, who is an insecure, incel coded scientist who became more powerful than Magneto in a freak accident. Graviton is the perfect villain for this team of misfit heroes: powerful enough to give these Davids a Goliath, but obscure enough that he fits the theme of impostor syndrome and insecurity.
The mini is breezy fun. One of many strong chapters in the Marvel bibliography of Stern. The issues of Avengers: West Coast proper, which round out this collection, are more of a mixed bag.
Writer Steve Engleheart tags in for Stern, and he understands the assignment. He had a memorable run on the original title after all, and is able to balance this ensemble cast really well, giving each hero plot lines that have protein. He also has a knack for comedy (a gag involving Hawkeye trying to convince the Thing to join the team is particularly funny). However, he gets a little too caught in the weeds with Tigra's powers and origin (similar to how he got laser focused on Mantis in his previous run). The Tigra plot line is both datedly sexist and really boring (I'm all for meeting a comic on its own terms, but I didn't come to an Avengers title to read about cat gods, y'all).
Meanwhile, the artwork by Al Milgrom is similarly mixed. On one hand, I like the comfortable vibe of Milgrom's old fashioned pencils, which evoke Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko. This art is simple and easy to follow, and there’s a reason Milgrom’s had such a long career at Marvel. He’s able to churn out solid work on a tight schedule. However, there's a lack of energy in his pencils. The layouts are kind of boring and sometimes fail to create any momentum. Still, I mostly enjoy Milgrom's work here.
So, overall, this is a solid collection. I’m a big fan of the Avengers and I think any fan of the team should at least check out the original miniseries.
Then, throw in a great cast of characters to fill out the roster, and you've got a winner. James Rhodes as Iron Man (filling in for Tony Stark, who was battling alcoholism at the time this was published), who is trying to match the feats of his predecessor. Wonder Man, a major also-ran Avenger, who's not even sure being a superhero is his thing. Mockingbird, a badass SHIELD agent (think the MCU's Black Widow), who's now in a much more public facing role than she's used to. Tigra, a weird C-list superhero who got cat powers from a cat god or something (I don't really know, to be honest). You basically have Impostor Syndrome: The Team.
The same is true for the villain Graviton, a baddie from the Jim Shooter/Sal Buscema era of Avengers, who is an insecure, incel coded scientist who became more powerful than Magneto in a freak accident. Graviton is the perfect villain for this team of misfit heroes: powerful enough to give these Davids a Goliath, but obscure enough that he fits the theme of impostor syndrome and insecurity.
The mini is breezy fun. One of many strong chapters in the Marvel bibliography of Stern. The issues of Avengers: West Coast proper, which round out this collection, are more of a mixed bag.
Writer Steve Engleheart tags in for Stern, and he understands the assignment. He had a memorable run on the original title after all, and is able to balance this ensemble cast really well, giving each hero plot lines that have protein. He also has a knack for comedy (a gag involving Hawkeye trying to convince the Thing to join the team is particularly funny). However, he gets a little too caught in the weeds with Tigra's powers and origin (similar to how he got laser focused on Mantis in his previous run). The Tigra plot line is both datedly sexist and really boring (I'm all for meeting a comic on its own terms, but I didn't come to an Avengers title to read about cat gods, y'all).
Meanwhile, the artwork by Al Milgrom is similarly mixed. On one hand, I like the comfortable vibe of Milgrom's old fashioned pencils, which evoke Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko. This art is simple and easy to follow, and there’s a reason Milgrom’s had such a long career at Marvel. He’s able to churn out solid work on a tight schedule. However, there's a lack of energy in his pencils. The layouts are kind of boring and sometimes fail to create any momentum. Still, I mostly enjoy Milgrom's work here.
So, overall, this is a solid collection. I’m a big fan of the Avengers and I think any fan of the team should at least check out the original miniseries.
March 19, 2021
This was some goofy mid-80s Marvel fun.
This is the series/era that seeded the bulk of inspiration for the storylines of WandaVision, and it was interesting to see those beginnings here.
I am always a sucker for a team book that uses offbeat, underutilized characters, and there are certainly many of those here.
It does suffer from some excessive wordiness and very misguided social justice messaging that becomes racist in its attempts at doing good. Also, the Tigra character really bugs me with her characterization and storyline.
Artwise, it was pretty standard house fare of the time. The Iron Man redesign at the time was horrible. He looks like a chubby iron chipmunk, not at all modern or sleek.
I look forward to seeing the storylines develop, though, in future volumes.
This is the series/era that seeded the bulk of inspiration for the storylines of WandaVision, and it was interesting to see those beginnings here.
I am always a sucker for a team book that uses offbeat, underutilized characters, and there are certainly many of those here.
It does suffer from some excessive wordiness and very misguided social justice messaging that becomes racist in its attempts at doing good. Also, the Tigra character really bugs me with her characterization and storyline.
Artwise, it was pretty standard house fare of the time. The Iron Man redesign at the time was horrible. He looks like a chubby iron chipmunk, not at all modern or sleek.
I look forward to seeing the storylines develop, though, in future volumes.
September 5, 2023
Things that I liked
The Wanda Vision crossover storyline since it was a little bit cartoony but still had emotional beats and arcs
Seeing Hawkeye even though he hasn’t had an arc or storyline yet
The locations
Tigras arc (the first part, the seduction part was weird and sort of misogynist)
Things that I disliked
The length THEY DO NOT NEED TO BE 40 PAGES
The abundance of dialogue (which is not its fault since it’s really old)
The second arc of Prometheus??? I think is his name, he is boring as a villain
So overall a comic that is boring a parts but still had me entertained, I do like the miniseries over the regular run
enjoyed the original miniseries much more than the new one,
The Wanda Vision crossover storyline since it was a little bit cartoony but still had emotional beats and arcs
Seeing Hawkeye even though he hasn’t had an arc or storyline yet
The locations
Tigras arc (the first part, the seduction part was weird and sort of misogynist)
Things that I disliked
The length THEY DO NOT NEED TO BE 40 PAGES
The abundance of dialogue (which is not its fault since it’s really old)
The second arc of Prometheus??? I think is his name, he is boring as a villain
So overall a comic that is boring a parts but still had me entertained, I do like the miniseries over the regular run
enjoyed the original miniseries much more than the new one,
February 1, 2024
I can't help but be a little disappointed by this volume of Avengers West Coast.
Roger Stern does a decent job of setting up the team in the original four-issue mini-series, and Graviton is a worthwhile foe for the team to face, but Steve Englehart's regular series continuation falls flat after the initial Family Ties crossover with the Vision & Scarlet Witch. All that stuff with the Cat People and then with a good Ultron called "Mark"? It's a far cry from Englehart's earlier Avengers work, which I absolutely loved.
Al Milgrom's middling art certainly doesn't help things either.
Roger Stern does a decent job of setting up the team in the original four-issue mini-series, and Graviton is a worthwhile foe for the team to face, but Steve Englehart's regular series continuation falls flat after the initial Family Ties crossover with the Vision & Scarlet Witch. All that stuff with the Cat People and then with a good Ultron called "Mark"? It's a far cry from Englehart's earlier Avengers work, which I absolutely loved.
Al Milgrom's middling art certainly doesn't help things either.
February 21, 2022
This was more of an exercise in nostalgia for me than anything. I'd stopped reading comics in the early '80s, and was curious to check out this title, more to see if I'd missed anything. I'd read before that this book was more of a soap opera and had a lighter touch.
The quality, however, was not much higher than what I remembered reading in the '70s. It probably would've interested my 10 year old mind, but now it just made me think that I could spend the time reading better graphic novels.
The quality, however, was not much higher than what I remembered reading in the '70s. It probably would've interested my 10 year old mind, but now it just made me think that I could spend the time reading better graphic novels.
May 30, 2024
Fun from the past.
I loved comics as a kid and revisiting them is a lot of fun. This is a great insight into the building of a team and character development of individuals (not limited to heroes).
I loved comics as a kid and revisiting them is a lot of fun. This is a great insight into the building of a team and character development of individuals (not limited to heroes).
May 13, 2025
this was a fun read, I thought the writing was really solid and it had some good artwork. I thought the storyline with Ultron was interesting but the standout is probably the arc revolving around vision/wonder man.
November 16, 2018
A fun volume, though filled with a lot of extra stories to read just to get to grips with the series, plus a cross over in the very first issue seems doomed to alienate readers.
June 16, 2020
More like 3 1/2....a decent run..Main highlights are Tigra and the Cat People, Ultron 12, and I loved the first issue of Wonder Man....Al Milgrom and Joe Sinnott are awesome artists
October 18, 2022
I had a special fondness for the second-tier Marvel books of the 80s, and West Coast Avengers was one of my faves (along with Cloak & Dagger).
April 9, 2024
Full of epic world building from the start, great art the leaps of the age, daring do right the outset, great collction of stories and full of plot twists you won't see coming! :D
March 29, 2025
Englehart at this point in time was a big step down from Roger Stern
July 25, 2025
I was kind of hoping for it to be better, as the first issue I ever got when I began collecting was issue 4 of the first volume of this series. Unfortunately, it was kind of slow. Decent, but slow.
July 11, 2025
Fun and energetic expansion of the Avengers brand with a strong focus on character dynamics and quirky team chemistry.
Hawkeye leads a new Avengers squad on the West Coast, facing threats like Graviton and Tigra's transformation, while dealing with internal struggles and growing pains.
It's lighthearted yet engaging, which manages to capture a charm that's present in many of Marvel and DC's 80s team books.
Hawkeye leads a new Avengers squad on the West Coast, facing threats like Graviton and Tigra's transformation, while dealing with internal struggles and growing pains.
It's lighthearted yet engaging, which manages to capture a charm that's present in many of Marvel and DC's 80s team books.
December 25, 2021
A delightfully strange cast with big dreams. Welcome to the world, Whackos.
July 9, 2023
I quite enjoyed reading these early West Coast Avengers issues, with their 80s charm and weirdness compared to modern comics. The action parts were nice but not particularly memorable for me, aside from the fights against Ultron. However, I really liked the team dynamics, and the peek inside the inner feelings of the individual characters. Hawkeye's jokiness and his banter with Mockingbird (or with everyone, for that matter), Wonder Man's struggle to overcome his past misdeeds as Simon Williams, Tigra's constant battle with her insecurity as a team member and her excessive flirtations driven by her cat persona, these are just a few of the highlights. There's a lot of melodrama going on behind the scenes with each character, and this was fun for me to read through.
The art is as expected for that era, some cool covers, not a lot of noteworthy panels but nothing unsightly either.
The art is as expected for that era, some cool covers, not a lot of noteworthy panels but nothing unsightly either.
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