Heroes Reborn: Return

Heroes Reborn (1996) #5

by Peter David, Chris Claremont, Joe Casey

Collects Heroes Reborn: The Return #1-4; Heroes Reborn: Doomsday, Ashema, Masters Of Evil, Rebel, Remnants, Young Allies And Doom.

When Onslaught threatened his family and friends, Franklin Richards created a world where they could be reborn! Now, it's time to return to the real Earth, but must Franklin's Counter-Earth die in the process? Doctor Doom saves the new world so he can rule it — and where there are villains, new heroes must rise to face them. But which are which? Starring the FF, the Avengers, every hero on Counter-Earth and more! Also featuring its next wave of heroes, the Young Allies and the Remnants!

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Comic Book, Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics

279 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 19, 2009

About the author

Peter Allen David (aka David Peters), often abbreviated PAD, was an American writer of comic books, novels, television, films, and video games. His notable comic book work includes an award-winning 12-year run on The Incredible Hulk, as well as runs on Aquaman, Young Justice, SpyBoy, Supergirl, Fallen Angel, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2099, Captain Marvel, and X-Factor.

His Star Trek work included comic books and novels such as the New Frontier book series. His other novels included film adaptations, media tie-ins, and original works, such as the Apropos of Nothing and Knight Life series. His television work includes series such as Babylon 5, Young Justice, Ben 10: Alien Force and Nickelodeon's Space Cases, which he co-created with Bill Mumy.

David often jokingly described his occupation as "Writer of Stuff", and he was noted for his prolific writing, characterized by its mingling of real-world issues with humor and references to popular culture, as well as elements of metafiction and self-reference.

David earned multiple awards for his work, including a 1992 Eisner Award, a 1993 Wizard Fan Award, a 1996 Haxtur Award, a 2007 Julie Award, and a 2011 GLAAD Media Award.

Reviews

[Baba · Rating 4 out of 5]

The final resolution of the impressive Onslaught series, reveals the 'dead'/lost heroes whereabouts and with the aid of The Celestials, Dr Strange, Loki(!), Spiderman and Franklin Richards, how and if they are returned to Earth. Peter David, once again, in my opinion, proves he is the best writer to ever scribe for Marvel with this powerful, emotional and awesome tale of growth, recovery and survival... with the rest of the Onslaught series, some of the best work ever produced by Marveldom in my opinion. 8 out of 12.

[James DeSantis · Rating 2 out of 5]

A meh return for our heroes after being slaughtered by onslaught. I think this mumble jumble, confusing for no other reasons than to be confusing, event really was weak. I did enjoy a couple of moments, mostly due to the Hulk and even the Man Thing, but the rest felt really boring to read, especially the second half.

[Rocío · Rating 3 out of 5]

Honestamente no se que decir de este cómic. La parte de Franklin y sus poderes estuvo copada, pero el resto no se me hizo nada interesante.

[Kirby Davis · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book offers a simple solution to getting Marvel's non-mutant heroes out of Franklin Richard's bubble Earth, one that seems rushed and ultimately unsatisfying. The book also introduces several alternate storylines for the world left behind. Most remain unfocused by the last page... a sampling of what could have been. Only the tales of Doom and Lancer provide more than superficial character development, yet they too abruptly end without apparent resolution.

[Marlan Harris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Peter David has always been a solid writer, only occasionally great but always at least good (especially when the continuity works with him, not against him). Larocca is also a serviceable artist, so it made sense to bring them in to clean up the mess of Marvel Universe left when Lee & Liefeld got to reboot it (which happens successfully so rarely it's a wonder why they ever do it). It's as good as it needs to be to get the continuity back on track but it's only fixing what didn't need to be changed in the first place, so it's a zero sum that never needed to be remembered. This shows how those stories can work with these heroes while paving over whatever it was the Image mercenaries came up with. As it is, just to get back to the universe could have been a short story, even just a 64-page annual, but here it's stretching out enough that can be its own trade paperback. Consider it a headline-grabbing but failed detour, then it's like it never happened. With this maybe you get a bunch of the biggest heroes before they hit the mainstream, so it's just another adventure, but that could be better elsewhere.

[Beelzefuzz · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you like Hickman's Secret Wars, and you hate yourself, you will love this book.
Very much a Secret Wars lite resolution. Spends a lot of time with Peter David adjusting his action figures and moving them closer and closer to a bubble before he flips over the table and calls it an ending.

If you read the interview with David in the back of his Hulk Omnibus no. 4 about almost getting fired from the Hulk and there being a fan conspiracy that the Image bros were doing that to him (which he dismisses as not true), and if you see this whole event as a commentary on Marvel trying to chase the Image hype with the heroes reborn initiative, then the last issue where we are told the moral of the story by the deus ex machina is maybe worth reading with all that in mind to see David's take on everything.

[Raymond Paquette · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reading it years after I originally read it I realized that 1 Tony Stark is a really bad man. 2 It wasn't the light tale I thought it was. All of the heroes leave their loved ones, extra families and lives because a little boy said so.

I enjoyed Spider-man flirting with She Hulk though.

[Joshua Williams · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was honestly unreadable. The majority of it is intro stories to characters you're never gonna hear of again, and will be glad to never see again

[mel · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 ⭐️

read heroes reborn: the return issues #1 - #4

[Federico Kereki · Rating 2 out of 5]

The first part of the book deals with the return of big characters like Iron Man, Fantastic Four, etc. -and the second deals with a lot of nobodies plus the eventual return of Dr. Doom; a bore!

[Devero · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dopo un anno buttato via, un anno in cui la Marvel ha subappaltato alla Image 4 serie storiche (Capitan America, Iron-Man, Vendicatori e Fantastici Quattro), tocca aPeter David inventarsi un modo per far rientrare gli eroi perduti in seguito a Onslaught nell'universo Marvel principale.
Lo fa con un tocco di dramma eccessivo forse, ma la storia è buona. Certo, dopo 12 mesi di Image, anche una ciofeca sarebbe sembrata ottima. E i disegni sono finalmente decenti.

[B · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think I've previously read the Heroes Return 4-issue miniseries. Not that much happens there. There's not really a story to be told, so much as excuses to be made, perhaps.

I thought the Doom-related miniseries was pretty interesting. It certainly was not good. But it was at least a little novel.

[Little Timmy · Rating 3 out of 5]

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.

[Patrick · Rating 1 out of 5]

I could tell you all the ways this books was crap, but I don't believe I want to damage my mind thinking about the crap I just read for a moment longer. Ug. What a waste of paper.