Product Description

The powerhouse team of Brian Michael Bendis and David Finch take on Earth's Mightiest Heroes! It begins with the return of a team member thought dead - and by the time it's over, everything you know about the Avengers will have changed! The event that will rock the entirety of the Marvel Universe starts here! This work collects "Avengers" Nos. 500-503 and "Avengers Finale".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #198362 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Customer Reviews

Disassembled or just falling apart?
Brian Michael Bendis has a good reputation in comics. Powers is considered to be brilliant and what I've read is very good. But the man's strength is in characters' voices and realistic sounding dialogue, not in plotting. And in a big action book like Avengers the plot is very important. So sadly, in what should have been a book that revitalised the Avengers (who have been overshadowed by reimagined versions of themselves in the Ultimates which is far superior to this) what we get is characters standing around and talking a lot. They do little except react very slowly to each illogical plot twist and wait for another character to deliver the answer to the mystery and defeat the villain in a deus ex machina ending. This is not a good book to become acquainted with the Avengers.

Bendis has done the unthinkable?!?!
who would have thought that the avengers could end?. Earths mightiest heroes are going to be obliterated in this graphic novel as many heroes are slaughtered by a members unknown insanity! prepare to see the team pitted against the impossible.
the beginning of the story is intresting as you are not prepared for what happens but at the very end the story seems slightly pointless and unjustified in a context. but apparently this is a graphic novel which finishes the avengers line of comic books but not the end of some of the characters and it is going to lead into another storyline a lot more sinister and with a better line up (captain america, luke cage, spiderman and many others). this book is a decent buy but only if you want to know what happened to your beloved super heroes

Ok for existing readers , but not a good stand-alone read
For some reason I expected to be more interested in the characters and their fates, but no. It just didn't have any emotional resonance at all.

I haven't read the ongoing series leading up to this (to be honest the last time I bought a mag, it was around the Kree Skrull War and the Mandroids and Inhumans were all over the mansion) so perhaps I shouldn't have been surprised.

However, I had hoped for the kind of book that engages new readers and old, but there just isn't enough to substance, to either the story or the characterisations to allow it to stand alone.