Assembled! 2: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and Villains

by Van Allen Plexico, Tom Brevoort (Introduction)

The Jarvis Heads of AvengersAssemble.net are back with a critical, insightful, and humorous look at the Big Three Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America-- plus the Big Two Ultron and Kang! Introduction by Marvel Executive Editor Tom Brevoort. Profits benefit the HERO Initiative charity.

186 pages, Paperback

First published July 11, 2009

About the author

Van Allen Plexico has written a dozen novels and contributed to at least that many anthologies, but is best known for his popular and critically-acclaimed SENTINELS superhero novels, as well as the two-time Novel of the Year Finalist LORDS OF FIRE and its sequels in the "Shattering" space opera series. In the realm of nonfiction, he co-wrote the best-selling DECADES OF DOMINANCE and SEASON OF OUR DREAMS books about Auburn football and created the ASSEMBLED! books, exploring the history of Marvel’s AVENGERS comics. He writes and edits for numerous publishers including Airship 27, Pro Se Press, Permuted/Swarm Press, Maple Street Press, New Babel Books, Adamant, and White Rocket, along with occasional columns for RevolutionSF.com and the War Eagle Reader. He serves as an Associate Professor at Southwestern Illinois College.

Reviews

[Jdetrick · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really enjoyed the first volume, but this is a horrible disappointment. First of all, the book is riddled with typos. It's horribly unprofessional. Second of all, this book focuses only on the Big Three Avengers, which I think is a weakness. Not only do they get most of the press anyway so they are the characters who least need another book devoted to them, but it's not enough material for the volume, and things keep getting repeated. Finally, many of the essays are just plain bad. They're either boring, or they're written poorly. Not worth picking up.