Avengers Classic #1
Wow! That was one of the best books I've read this year! Lee and Kirby's story still holds up - but that's not the centerpiece of this issue: it's the Dwayne McDuffie and Oeming piece "Some Assembly Required" or "What If...The Avengers had been written like JLI?" Michael Avon Oeming's art on this section is absolutely amazing, and the dialogue by McDuffie is outstanding. While we're talking about JLI, bring in Kevin Maguire to do the book's third feature "The Real Origin of the Avengers", wherein Stan Lee reveals that it was all about the royalties...and Captain America too. Maguire's art looks a bit off in places, though. But it's really nice to see Stan Lee looking like he did forty something years ago! Both of these latter stories have EXCELLENT dialogue, and lots of cute visual details as well. I'd give this issue Quote of the Week if I could narrow it down to one. But I can't. So I won't. There's only one possible rating for this book: EXelCELLENTsior!
And how cool is it that they're going to be reprinting the original letters pages?
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