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The entire premise of the series is to mimic the feeling of jumping in on a random issue of a series, and having gaps in your knowledge of what happened.
INTRODUCING: THE ALL-NEW AVENGERS SERIES THAT STARTS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EXPLOSIVE ACTION AND RACES TO A SHOCKING CLIMAX!
An alien attack. A missing piece of wormhole tech. A city warped, its citizens transformed into hideous creatures loyal to an Empress from the far side of the universe. And a certain Captain Marvel, looking to her fellow Avengers with murderous intent... Plunge into the action and take a deep breath because you will not be allowed up for air as a thrilling new series kicks off in the strongest, strangest way possible.
There are eight characters. And then theres one major villain. Its a big ensemble for a story with no introduction that drops right in the middle of the climax. Its all juggled with great finesse by the entire team. The fact that the story involves quantum teleportation is a pretty cool thematic synchronicity. The next issue finds a similar group of Avengers who have been captured by mega-villain Doctor Doom. Somehow Doom has gotten ahold of Captain Americas shield on the cover. That cant be good. Read Full Review
Greg Land delivers some beautifully detailed and exciting art throughout the issue. The action is non-stop and visually compelling. Read Full Review
Im excited about this book as it provides readers a cinema homage as well as a relaxed Avengers team. SureArrok makes a pretty awesome villain and how she can consolidate her armythat is reminiscent of an Ant-Man maneuver. Again, this is a fun read and one in which any Avenger fan who wishes to lighten the load of a heavy dialogue comic can get into! Read Full Review
All-Out Avengers #1 is an energetic comic that is unashamed of putting the action first. While there is a plot that will link the issues, it appears that it is merely a setup for the characters to go into battle. It is a fun issue that doesnt let up from its intensity from the opening page to the last. The art isnt perfect but what it does do is capture the kinetic motion that is required. How this concept plays out over multiple issues will be fascinating to discover. Read Full Review
'All-Out Avengers' totally delivers on its promise of wall-to-wall action. This is an extremely entertaining comic that captures Earth's Mightiest Heroes at their best. However, the darkness creeping on the edges is what will keep readers hooked. Read Full Review
While the issue delivers on the promise of being action from the jump, it lacks the necessary components to be a cohesive story to pull everything together. The dialogue is light, but seems uneven, as Landy seems unsure of the cast, and their characterizations. We have a couple of stellar nuggets, but theyre few and far between. Lands art here is serviceable, but nothing to write home about. An uneven start to the Earths mightiest. Read Full Review
OverallThe concept is fun. The story is even more so. But the line-art is distracting to the point that it's impossible to recommend this without reservations. Read Full Review
Without the necessary style or skill to make the artwork its own draw, there's simply not enough here to guarantee any reader is compelled to wait for All-Out Avengers #2. Read Full Review
All-Out Avengers #1 is a good idea with poor execution. Read Full Review
All-Out Avengers #1 has an interesting concept behind it as we start in the middle of a story already well into development. Derek Landy and Greg Land just never do anything with the potential of this direction with the threat the Avengers face off against being the most generic villains that could've been chosen. This is definitely hard pass as I won't ever think about as a comic book I should read beyond the first issue. Read Full Review
Derek Landy is a writer that I'm very ambivalent on. He can churn out some quality comics, or rather boring ones. This one errs of the quality side of things. It's not amazing, and I wouldn't miss it, but it's good enough. The art doesn't help things. Greg Land is terrible.
I'm going to echo some of the other reviews because I felt the same way. It felt like we were jumping into a second or third issue and not a first. I had to google to see if this storyline took place somewhere else. Of course, Carol is the baddie, just like when she made that deal to kill all of the Avengers and they were hiding in a pocket universe. A bad storyline then and I feel like this is on a similar path. I do like Cap holding up his fist to tell them to stop. Very military and he should do that more often. I like seeing the classic Avengers, but I'm not invested yet. I don't know why all Avengers and JLA stories have to revolve around aliens. I'll get the second issue and see how it goes.
It's been brutal not being able to read the Avengers for so long due to Aarons terrible run so was hoping we'd get something fun to tide people over until he's off the run but unfortunately this book was very mediocre and too chaotic to really have any good character beats.
Great, what I didn't like about Jason Aaron's Avengers was that it was too quiet and it made too much sense. /s
A comic that is neither necessary nor particularly good.
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