REVIEW: Secret Avengers #33

[CBR News]

"Secret Avengers" #33 from Rick Remender and Andy Kuhn is a great slice of action oriented superhero soap opera with scenes of love and violence.


Full review here.

[nojarama]

LOVED the issue! I wish the team could remain the way it is and not be revamped like all the other books.

[Harbinger of Apocalypse]

Indeed, I quite like it as well. Its a shame Remender has to leave it so soon and is really only doing one arc. He basically just introduced the team, got stuck with the AvX stuff and just wrapping up the Shadow Council plot with it only now reaching Remender's story of the Descendants. Feels way too short because of that but its been a good run.

[Codah]

Amazing issue. The scene where descendant Janet is creeping up on Hank scared the shit out of me.

[lilyinblue]

This issue and the previous made me realize how much I am really enjoying Remender's run. I'll be sad to see it end.

[sparticus]

I read this through while I was re-reading Uncanny X-Force, it's amazing how they tie together. The orb of necromicon is the one that appears in the Otherworld Arc of X-Force that can raise the dead, but also that at the start of Secret Avengers Remember said was the thing that Braddock Sr used to give Torch real life, not just AI life, which seems to be what the descendants crave. The whole run seems to be about what makes someone a real human and what is free will (including the mind-controlled, Capt. Marvel bit). Amazing how it's been set up for so long (the Deathlok storyline in Uncanny X-Force 5, and the Lady Deathstrike / Reaver story in UXF 5.1 all tie in).

[Willow616]

Such a brilliant issue....couldn't have been happier with this. Loved the Avengers of the Undead, hope Marvel revists these again when this arc is over. Mummy Thor (haha I liked writing that) must have a different enchantment on his hammer to be able to still weild it.

Also thought the banter between Captain Britain and Hawkeye was superb...and at last some respect for Braddock.

Didn't LMD Eric seem quite concerned about what happened to Venom and Val?

[bskell]

This was surprisingly a good comic. I can't say I've ever cared for the book so much, it's always felt a bit odd to have a super secret team with the name Avengers attached. If anything else the Avengers aren't people I would ever think of as low key, but as Avengers are this decade's X-men I get why Marvel is plastering an Avengers on everything. I did love the way the plots weave into each other, I personally wouldn't call it a Claremont style as most Marvel comics writers did it, but it's really nice to see it used again. It's a great style that's focused on a monthly title rather than a trade, which IMHO should be how monthly books are written.

The only bit I didn't care for was Lady Deathstrike. It almost seemed like she was a copy of a copy that was boiled down to the stereotype than the cyborg killer I've read in the past. It just felt so forced and out of place that it stood out... badly. I couldn't help but still wonder wtf that was about hours later. Otherwise, it was a good book. Even though the characters aren't ones I normally care for, I found myself very interested in how it's all going to pan out.

[rpriske]

Bad writing and bad art.

Book dropped.


Black Ant? Seriously? Emperor Doombot?

It is hard for me to drop an Avengers book, but that's the way it goes.