KC’s Bookshelf: Avengers Forever
- Posted by Johanna on March 15, 2010 at 7:03 pm
- Category: KC
KC’s latest Westfield Comics column tells you why he enjoyed Avengers Forever. It made me want to read it, and I’m like the anti-customer when it comes to continuity-heavy alternate superhero histories!
March 15, 2010 at 8:22 PM
I enjoyed it more at the time than I do now, I think. Busiek’s run on the regular title is a good barometer as to whether a reader would like this. If the heavy use of flashbacks and continuity in the main book was a problem (as I remember it being for some readers at the time) this miniseries probably won’t be a fun read since those are in more prominent use. Pacheco’s art is still very nice.
March 15, 2010 at 8:56 PM
I was one of those readers at the time, but I don’t have the same reaction. Avengers Forever was billed as a special cross-history adventure, if I recall correctly. The Avengers series was billed as a great starting point, and then issue 2 they’re doing an alternate continuity, which I found way too confusing, since I didn’t yet know the “real” characters. But that argument was done with a long time ago. :)
March 15, 2010 at 9:16 PM
I enjoyed it at the time, but went to re-read it a few years later and really couldn’t even continue past the first issue.
For some reason, I became disenchanted with many things Busiek (though I still think his Superman: Secret Identity is one of the better Superman tales) and found a re-read of his Avengers run with Perez to also be a hard slog.