x35's Avengers Spotlight #27 - Some Assembly Required review

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    Some Assembly Required by Dwayne McDuffie and Al Milgrom is another issue of Avengers Spotlight that ties into the Acts of Vengeance Avengers crossover. This issue features one of the most unusual Avengers rosters battling against the Awesome Android as well as Hawkeye fighting Boomerang.

    As I said in my review of the Acts of Vengeance prologue, Avengers Spotlight is basically the dumping ground for D-List Avengers material. The team featured in this book as much as exemplify the exact nature of the book with Black Widow leading Captain Marvel, Firebird, Hellcat, Moondragon and Stingray in a battle against a villain of similar stature in Avengers lore in Awesome Android. Don't misconstrue this as a complaint or a diss, matter of fact is I'd take this oddball team over the awful line-up in the Marvel NOW book, it's just that it is oddball.

    With that said, it's actually pretty nice to see Firebird and Stingray get some personality included in an Avengers book and to see them be used as something besides peripheral characters. Of the characters though, only really Captain Marvel and Firebird get to shine with Black Widow, Hellcat, Moondragon and Stingray being defeated or powerless to stop Awesome Andy. Then we have the whole other plot with Hawkeye, and his fight with Boomer exemplifies some of the more generic aspects of Acts of Vengeance. While a Hawkeye and Boomerang match-up isn't a bad one, it's more the case that nothing extraordinary happens between the two. There's a lot of potential for character work between the two and the fact they share similar gimmicks, but instead we just get a rather run-of-the-mill fight. Fun, nevertheless, it seems like the missed a trick when they could've done soomething a lot more meaty than a simple altercation.

    With regards to the Hawkeye plot, there's some kinda out-of-place stuff concerning a recent fight Hawkeye had with Mad Dog and it's primed to seem important to this story when it's ultimately just a bit of wrap-up from another story. If you've read the Hawkeye/Mad Dog story, I'm sure it will probably be enlightening to you to learn Hawkeye isn't dying from being bit by the villain but if, like me, you're just reading the Acts of Vengeance crossover, you find the 3 or 4 pages spent dwelling on Hawkeye's doctor's appointment to be a bit go-nowhere. Especially when those extra pages could've been used to do more stuff with the Boomereang fight.

    But when all is said and done, this is another entertaining issue which gives some nice spotlight onto a few Avengers characters who didn't really get much spotlight in the Avengers and if you're a Hawkeye fangirl you get to see him learn he has a bladder infection. While I admit these aren't two of the most exciting fights to take place in Acts of Vengeance, they're still decent reads and again I didn't feel myself itching to check how many pages I had left to read.

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