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Avengers (2018) (Single Issues)
Avengers (2018-2023) #39
ENTER THE PHOENIX PROLOGUE! In the harsh, primordial world of One Million B.C.E., early humans who are different are left in the Burnt Place to die. But one young girl whose only crime was being born with red hair finds something else entirely in the place of bones and ash – something that will change human history forever.
23 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 9, 2020
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About the author
Jason Aaron
2,351 books1,678 followersJason Aaron grew up in a small town in Alabama. His cousin, Gustav Hasford, who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers, on which the feature film Full Metal Jacket was based, was a large influence on Aaron. Aaron decided he wanted to write comics as a child, and though his father was skeptical when Aaron informed him of this aspiration, his mother took Aaron to drug stores, where he would purchase books from spinner racks, some of which he still owns today.
Aaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors.
In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.
Following this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo.
In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw: Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions. Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso, who was impressed by The Other Side and Scalped, hired Aaron to write issues of Wolverine, Black Panther and eventually, an extended run on Ghost Rider that began in April 2008. His continued work on Black Panther also included a tie-in to the company-wide crossover storyline along with a "Secret Invasion" with David Lapham in 2009.
In January 2008, he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, though it would not affect his work on Scalped. Later that July, he wrote the Penguin issue of The Joker's Asylum.
After a 4-issue stint on Wolverine in 2007, Aaron returned to the character with the ongoing series Wolverine: Weapon X, launched to coincide with the feature film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Aaron commented, "With Wolverine: Weapon X we'll be trying to mix things up like that from arc to arc, so the first arc is a typical sort of black ops story but the second arc will jump right into the middle of a completely different genre," In 2010, the series was relaunched once again as simply Wolverine. He followed this with his current run on Thor: God of Thunder.
Aaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors.
In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.
Following this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo.
In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw: Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions. Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso, who was impressed by The Other Side and Scalped, hired Aaron to write issues of Wolverine, Black Panther and eventually, an extended run on Ghost Rider that began in April 2008. His continued work on Black Panther also included a tie-in to the company-wide crossover storyline along with a "Secret Invasion" with David Lapham in 2009.
In January 2008, he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, though it would not affect his work on Scalped. Later that July, he wrote the Penguin issue of The Joker's Asylum.
After a 4-issue stint on Wolverine in 2007, Aaron returned to the character with the ongoing series Wolverine: Weapon X, launched to coincide with the feature film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Aaron commented, "With Wolverine: Weapon X we'll be trying to mix things up like that from arc to arc, so the first arc is a typical sort of black ops story but the second arc will jump right into the middle of a completely different genre," In 2010, the series was relaunched once again as simply Wolverine. He followed this with his current run on Thor: God of Thunder.
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April 27, 2024
Set in 1.000.000BC
The Origin of the Phoenix!
Continuing my chronological journey, starting with this gem right here. Aaron can write an origin like a professional. Amazing storytelling and an overall enjoyable story with a dive into the Phoenix character that dates in prehistorical times that ties it all so well together with the general story and the known Phoenix of the modern times without ruining anything but updating it and making it even better. All of that with an amazing artwork as well.
The Origin of the Phoenix!
Continuing my chronological journey, starting with this gem right here. Aaron can write an origin like a professional. Amazing storytelling and an overall enjoyable story with a dive into the Phoenix character that dates in prehistorical times that ties it all so well together with the general story and the known Phoenix of the modern times without ruining anything but updating it and making it even better. All of that with an amazing artwork as well.
December 31, 2020
So, who's the first mutant? That's Namor, right?
Except Apocalypse, or En Sabah Nur, who's name literally translates to "The First One" is many thousands of years old...and a mutant.
Oh, but Selene is thousands of years older than him, so is it her?
But, no, there were mutants one million years BC, and one of them was a red haired girl, who became the host of the Phoenix.
Jason Aaron continues to rewrite the ancient history of the Marvel Universe and I am quite happy for him to do so, because he's really, really good at it.
This issues is illustrated by Dale Keown, so it's no surprise that the art is really good too.
But coupled with Dan Slott's revelation that Franklin Richards isn't a mutant over in Fantastic Four, there are a lot of non-X-office writers messing with mutantdom at the moment, and one can only hope that the editorial teams of all these books are actually communicating and coordinating all of this.
Still, good comic is good.
Except Apocalypse, or En Sabah Nur, who's name literally translates to "The First One" is many thousands of years old...and a mutant.
Oh, but Selene is thousands of years older than him, so is it her?
But, no, there were mutants one million years BC, and one of them was a red haired girl, who became the host of the Phoenix.
Jason Aaron continues to rewrite the ancient history of the Marvel Universe and I am quite happy for him to do so, because he's really, really good at it.
This issues is illustrated by Dale Keown, so it's no surprise that the art is really good too.
But coupled with Dan Slott's revelation that Franklin Richards isn't a mutant over in Fantastic Four, there are a lot of non-X-office writers messing with mutantdom at the moment, and one can only hope that the editorial teams of all these books are actually communicating and coordinating all of this.
Still, good comic is good.
December 13, 2020
This was a cool addition to the Phoenix mythology--and even an explanation as to why it is drawn to redheaded women! In fact, it's actually a pretty interesting connection.
April 19, 2021
41/100
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