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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable,
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This review is from: Avengers: Living Legends (Paperback)
As a Avengers fan, I bought this book because I'd missed out on many of the earlier issues, and wanted to catch up.
This collection brings together issues 23-30, from the Vision/Witch/Williams triangle to the Kulan Gath storyline. The highlights are most notably in issue 23, where the Vision and Wonderman talk it out for several pages (some might complain, but I found this as an excellent peice of character development)and the escalation of the Avengers v.s Triune conflict, leading to Triathalon being inaugarated as an Avenger. The line-up shuffle up was done very well, though (unlike some of the old shakeups, which could often become confusing, and even downright meaningless). However, the overall imression was that there wasn't anything spectacular about it. All it does is collect several chapters together, and doesn't really add much to the stew, so to say. It was, in my opinion, a decent worth for my money, but I'd say pass it if you aren't a giant fan of the Avengers, or if you already have issue 23.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Zzzzzz...,
By Babytoxie (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Avengers: Living Legends (Paperback)
This book was a real let-down, and considering the creative team, it shouldn't have been. Since the `70s, George Perez has been regarded as the ultimate Avengers artist, and rightly so. When you're dealing with a team that has so many past and current members, who better to draw gorgeous splash pages featuring so much detail that you'd need a magnifying glass to catch it all? And as for Kurt Busiek, this is the guy who wrote the ultimate Avengers story - Avengers Forever - so he certainly has credibility. So when it was announced in the late `90s that Busiek and Perez were teaming up on the new Avengers comic, it seemed like the natural choice for a perfect creative team. After reading the trade paperback AVENGERS: LIVING LEGENDS, I can say "so much for that". In fact, these stories have to be the worst of their work on Avengers. It's some pretty lousy stuff, due to Busiek's writing, and no amount of good art can save that. Actually, it's not really so much a fault of the individual stories as it is the lame subplots running through them.
This trade collects issues 23 - 30, starting off with the interesting romantic triangle of the Vision, Scarlet Witch, and Wonder Man. This situation has been cooking since waaaay back in West Coast Avengers, and it does finally receive some perspective and resolution here. Next is the return of the Exemplars, a pretty cool team of villains in pure Jack Kirby style. Concluding the book is the menace of Kulan Gath, who is doing everything he can in order to assure his ascendancy to godhood, and too bad if the entire planet gets in the way. So, it's a solid lineup of stories; unfortunately, they are undercut by the tedious subplot involving the Triune Understanding, a new-age organization that first covertly targets the Avengers for protests over supposedly racist recruiting practices (but while simultaneously protesting against the inclusion of mutants), then sets up the Avengers on a charge of breaking and entering, and finally calls it even by installing a member of their own organization on the team - the hero Triathlon. It's one ridiculous situation after another, and as the Avengers have faced issues like this in the past, I can't see why their responses would be so passive. Some Avengers get the right idea and leave, rather than deal with these inexplicable issues - too bad this reader didn't do the same! Also, Triathlon has to be the most annoying character I've come across in quite a while. Ooh, an "angry black man" that speaks entirely in smart-alecky, derogatory asides - how modern! Way to go, Busiek: incorporating a tired comic-book stereotype straight out of the Silver Age. Wally Wood's Ken Hiro of MARS Patrol has nothing on Triathlon. So, while Busiek seems to have added these subplots in order to make the comic a bit more involving, it's those very subplots that drag it into absurdity and near-parody. You can safely pass on this book.
1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
LOW POINT FOR THE AVENGERS!,
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This review is from: Avengers: Living Legends (Paperback)
Wow! This was a major league disappointment!
With talent like Kurt Busiek and George Pereze there is no reason for subpar stories like these. This TPB collects Avengers 23-30 and if you haven't read them...YOU AREN'T MISSING ANYTHING! Ok, the artwork is sensational...so if you like great art you'll be satisfied as Perez is hands down the best illustrator of any team superhero book in comics history. Story lines? BORING! A lot of pointless team shuffling brought about by racist picketers. It leads to Triatholon joing the group...so we can have a minority character. Now, I'm all for equal representation, but the way this was written reminded me of comics from the 1960's. A sad commentary on our time. There's a reason we don't see characters like Triatholon and Silverclaw making a difference in the Marvel Universe. BECAUSE THEY'RE LAME! They should not be wasting pages in the Avengers when there were so many BETTER characters to choose from. I'm a comics fan of over 28 years and I can safely say, I HATED THIS TPB! It just shows that not every issue of a title (or in this case 8) needs to be reprinted into a collection.
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