Ed McGuinness and his creative team give us some captivating visuals. The coloring and the line work just pop, especially with the pulsating action throughout the book. A beautiful team pose with a cityscape backdrop (albeit missing a key Avengers member) paralyzed me with awe. It also inspired an "aww" with poor Ghost Rider WAY in the back posted up on his car. The MVP scene in this book was when Thor decides to confront Odin in Asgard, bringing along one other member in case things get froggy. It makes me shake my head grimace just how absolutely sick this panel is. Read Full Review

AVENGERS #3 may seem a bit over its head, but Jason Aaron is laying the groundwork for what could be an excellent storyline. If he paces himself, keeps his characterization on point, and allows Ed McGuinness' artwork to do its thing, I think this will be a tale we'll remember for years to come. Read Full Review

This story continues to be really well told by adding great character moments as well as tension and a mystery that is keeping me coming back for more. Read Full Review

This is exactly what I want from an Avengers book, it's packed full of major superheroes facing extreme odds in saving the world from impending doom. It's over the top and I love it. Read Full Review

Avengers #3 is a weaker installment than its two predecessors, but its still good. The characters have compelling chemistry, the plot is intriguing, and the art is mostly quite good. I can recommend this one easily. Check it out. Read Full Review

There is way too much plot and way too much exposition explaining that plot for this issue's own good. There are hints of a good time, but they are buried. Read Full Review

"Avengers" #3 is an average story that might seem less uneven and more effective as part of a collection. Read Full Review

Featuring consistently gorgeous artwork and a strong narrative focus, the latest issue of the Avengers, unfortunately, stumbles in its pacing, proving to be more of a set up for future issues than anything truly impactful. Although a new villain is introduced through the lens of an old one, we will have to wait longer to find out more about their agenda. Read Full Review

All-in-all, Avengers is heading in a potentially exciting direction, but the road to the finish line is riddled with pot holes. Read Full Review

Not much happens in this issue other than a surprise ending where Loki reveals what he believes to be the "father of the Avengers". Read Full Review

We get some explanations, but for the most part this comic is moving too slowly to care. Read Full Review

Avengers feels lacking due to a dull pace and poor character development. Hopefully, it will get better soon. Real soon. Read Full Review

Easily the best issue yet as Aaron’s opening arc continues. Aaron writes Loki’s dialogue spot on and McGuinness draws him perfectly. I can’t wait to learn more about the prehistoric Avengers next issue

Yes, this is good, I like this.

Yeah ... Not bad after two awful issue.
Aaron Is not easy to follow between the loki, thor, asguard status between their & The thor book. From two different Writer and with a lack of editor that could be explained ... But their ... This his a total mystery & f... up !
So at least their is finally a arguing between Tony & Carol, but for what two second ? Thanks to thor so that good. Even if it's weird to see thor in this role. I don't like Jaime but I was bad for him. The poor guy is left behind.
I still love the Strange/Panther duo, the best part of this avengers team. Will see for Hulk/Thor one.
I still don't care about all the first celestial & the progenitor. Still think it wasn't the very good move for a starting point.

Cover - In link and not bad 1.5/2
Writing - A lot better. I liked Cap accepting Loki surrender ^^ 3/3
Arts - I find it more likable too. Even if I'm still not a fan of this she Hulk & Ghost Rider. 3/3
Feeling - Mixed 1/2 more

Step up from last issue.

This is more like it ! After a disappointing second issue (or was that issue 1 part 2?) there was much more content to enjoy in this one. The meddling of the everpresent Loki is fully justified with an insightful exchange between him and one of the Avengers. Entertaining with good character writing and a few surprises along the way. Can't wait for the return of the prehistoric Avengers!

This story feels important but the delivery is lacking. It feels crowded and slow. I like the art by Paco Medina and Ed McGuiness and what Aaron is trying to do but he needs to figure it out sooner than later.

Another solid installment. It's going the slow build method, but it works and I am enjoying this book a lot. Really interesting way to end it and I am interested in what's coming.

The story is just keep getting better and better

The story is going 'slow'. It's a bit boring. But Medina's art saved it.

Cap makes a valiant try at monkeywrenching Loki's schemes. The rest of the team does little of consequence - I don't even think they'd pass a majority vote on whether they ARE Avengers right now.

I suspect Jason Aaron was handed more tools than he needed to tell his Cave-Vengers/Celestial infection tale. "Let's have them stand around and bicker in maybe-entertaining ways" is exactly what you do with heroes that are superfluous to your story.

Captain Marvel and Doctor Strange display encouraging glimmers of grown-up rationality by saying "Whoah, She-Hulk is messed up" and "Ghost Rider is OBVIOUSLY important here, maybe let's not walk away from him," respectively. Tony Stark, on the other hand, is way stupider and jerk-ier than he needs to be, and it's not a problem that a throwaway bit of self-aware dialogue can solve.

Strong but overblown art, a glacial pace, and a team that gets WEAKER when it Assembles don't seem to be good ingredients for a memorable Avengers series.
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Just an ok issue. Too much happening but at the same time feels like nothing is really important.

This issue suffers from the same problem as the previous one - there's a lot going on but since it's so crowded, everything is moving terribly slow. This makes me not care about what's going happening, which is definitely not a good sign so early on.

I'm not really into this series, or this team, so far. The story seems surprisingly flat from Aaron, who doesn't seem to have the handle on making each character of the team stand out. I guess I am also tired of these team books with enormous stakes all the time, especially since we're coming off a 16 issue space extravaganza. I liked that book more than this one. One other thing that irked me is this iteration of She-Hulk, or just Hulk now...her personality and humour was always the best thing about her, but now she's Hulk-dumb. I dunno. It's not terrible, certainly a solid book, but I don't think it stands out in any way.

So many pacing problems and lots of terrible dialog. While the earth is in dire need of heroes, we get dialog dumps from Not-The-Avengers (seriously this is issue 3 of a book called "The Avengers" heavily featuring classic Avengers) and insignificant bickering. Thor had to yell at Iron Man and Captain Marvel to stop their "Civil Warring" (good grief) after Tony yells at Carol trying to blame Alpha Flight for not stopping a host of Celestials. Come on, does Jason Aaron think Tony is that stupid?! Then more splashy oversized characters filling boring panels from Ed McGuinness. Overall the story advances by about 5 minutes from the last issue. Still waiting on a hook apart from "discover the secret history of the Avengers." I just realized that Paco Medina shared some art duties. He certainly didn't improve anything over McGuinness, and may even be behind some of the mirky faces near the end of this issue. more