Comics: The Past Five Years Of Avengers

[woodwardiocom]

I recently picked up a few of the Avengers books written by Bendis, and decided I liked them. Eventually this led me to catching up on the past five years of Avengers "events":

Marvel Civil War: Genuinely badly written, though the core concept should have been usable.
Secret Invasion: Better, but suffers from too much decompression and an anticlimax.
Siege: Actually pretty good.
Fear Itself: Also pretty good, though the efforts to make the new bad guy wikked skary are transparent and ineffectual. (In particular, when he breaks Cap's shield, I just didn't buy it. Most of the beings who have broken his shield before have been so powerful they didn't actually need to fight the Avengers, they could just wish them out of existence. "The Serpent" isn't in that class.)

Comments

[patricksmalone.livejournal.com]

I'm a Bendis fan since his Daredevil run around the time I got back into comics as an adult, but personally find it hard to care much about the Avengers. That said, I particularly enjoyed Dark Avengers -- running from Civil War into Siege, I think, though I'm embarrassingly bad at tracking such things.