Dernpool

New Avengers is the best Marvel title to come out in years, and I love the dynamic between the most intelligent, and powerful, characters in that universe, and the moral ambiguity that they struggle with. The art is dramatic, but not over the top, and sets a serious tone, making it all seem believable and real. I hate however, that Marvel constantly jobs out its most powerful characters, like Dr. Strange and Thor, for expediency of story. Dr. Strange constantly monitors numerous dimensions and has an incredible early warning/defensive capacity when he's written to his true power set. You don't walk into the Sanctum Sanctorum without a scratch, no matter what vague cosmic power you have, again, if the character is written to his true power set. The same applies to Reed and Tony Stark, who have also been caught seemingly unawares by the invasion, and have not been able to prevent or defend against the invaders until they were right in their faces. I did like though that T'challah seemingly took Black Dwarf down a notch, and I think this would have been a more interesting and believable story if Marvel's most powerful and intelligent characters weren't made out to look like B-listers, just to raise the stakes and add drama. That said, this is miles better than anything Bendis does and has done, and thank god this is Hickman's, and not his, event!

I posted something on the main page of DKMU #3 about how this book is frustrating on numerous levels. Not only is there no realism in terms of continuity of characters and power levels, but they don't even try to make the fight scenes entertaining. Wolverine not only gets his head cut off, which is impossible, but he doesn't act like Wolverine, and doesn't even land a scratch on Deadpool. AvX, for all its shortcomings, actually does a better job at exposition in fight scenes, and AvX truly sucks. Some other forums talk about how many of the kills occur off page too, and how the whole point of this should be to see how Deadpool manages to kill heros that totally outclass him. Making Mjolnir bigger with Pym Particles, and Thor can't avoid it and is crushed; f$%###*& seriously?! I can only think that the writer and Marvel are tyring to tell us something with all these stupid and unrealistic kills, about how Superhero v. Superhero fights themselves can be stupid and unrealistic, and we shouldn't take Superheros too seriously. If that's the message though, then they have really lost the plot, and they go about it in such a hamfisted way that I actually do hope the Marvel Universe meets its demise and they start over again with brand new characters across the board.