Review:
Avengers #2

The heroic age is in full swing in the Marvel Universe as June continues to deliver more issues under the publisher’s new banner. The Avengers Academy is now in session, while Steve Rogers sticks to the shadows as the leader of the all-new Secret Avengers. Of course at the center of it all is the super hero team everyone is counting on and they definitely have their hands full.

Avengers #2 hit shelves this week and if you haven’t got on board yet, what are you waiting for? It’s no secret that Marvel has its top talent on this title. With writer Brian Michael Bendis teamed-up with master comic book artiest John Romita Jr. the first issue was a hit and sold out shortly after its debut, yet the question still remained is this a series with shelling out four bucks for each month?

That answer, at least to this avid Avengers aficionado, is a resounding yes. Having high hopes for the series to begin with I felt issue #1 did a good setting things back up after the past seven years of crossovers and mega-events did a really good job of knocking them down. It was still a little too soon to tell however, and maybe it still is, yet after reading issue #2 all I can say is Wow!

With such high standards come extremely high hopes from fans. In a series that in many ways is the flagship of Marvel’s new Heroic Age, The Avengers definitely runs the risk of crashing under its own weigh. With fan-favorites coming and going and often more characters than there simply is room for, titles like these can often be some of the most confusing to follow (i.e., DC’s JLA/ JSA/ whatever the heck they’re called). Yet as more of the story is revealed in this brand new title it becomes all too clear that Bendis is delivering a solid story, and one that is downright entertaining to read. It is refreshing to get to back to the team’s roots. No “Who can you trust?” mentality or “Whose side are you on?” bickering allowing the team to exactly what it was meant for, fight bad guys and save the world, and that is exactly what they need to do.