Avengers #38 highlights all of the strengths of the current run: big, sweeping ideas and huge action scenes coupled with well-crafted, intimate character beats. If you've been unsure about this title, now is the time to jump on! Read Full Review

For a mainstream superhero book, Aaron manages to work in a LOT of horror imagery and McGuinness delivers wonderfully dynamic art, even though this issue is mostly a breather between massive crises. Read Full Review

The issue is perhaps a bit too ambitious and could've cut some of the Phoenix stuff, but overall it sets up a Mephisto story that's managed to get its hooks in. Read Full Review

" Anything, you say ? You've got a deal."

While the ideas are great and the art is amazing, it's a very frustrating book. This book is moving at a snail's pace. We get it: Mephisto's up to no good and we've been hinting at it for years now. Now we'll spend another 6 issues playing with the phoenix and hint at Mephisto some more. No Coulson and No Squadron Supreme and no resolution to anything, we're just brewing threads for 38 issues with no pay off whatsoever. And now Marvel says this book has hints for its 2021 slate so of course I'm sticking with this because I must like punishment.

The Avengers stare at future threats, flinty-eyed but passive. Meanwhile, Mephisto is out getting ☠☠☠☠ done. I prefer this volume's "mythos-building" issues to the story arcs between them, but in this one it's painfully clear that the antagonists do a lot more than the heroes. Nice art and dialogue, at least!

I kind of enjoy these exposition-heavy issues (or at least they pretend to be so) between arcs, teasing what's to come. This one keeps on building on top of the ongoing Mephisto story with a few teasers about the upcoming Phoenix arc. This all seem quite excited, although, as it always seem to be the case with this book, it's been going forever that I'm starting to lose interest in it.

Thanks couldn’t be millions years old. And Thor having a hammer during the fight with Apocalypse contradicts with what we’ve seen before. Also this book is really weird.

I like the ideas here for the most part, but I don't like that Howard Stark has been resurrected. Like if everything but the Tony Stark stuff was here, this would be a very exciting issue. That's the one thing that poisons the well here. I don't really care about the Phoenix stuff either. I just want this Mephisto plot front and center. I even like the stuff with Russia and the vampires. Just get to that.

It was ok. Nothing great. Didnt really progress the story but set up some more threads that who knows when will see the endgame for.

This one felt a little scattered to me, I don’t know, maybe the last arc’s bitter residue hasn’t left my brain yet.

Aside from the fact that everyone talks like an agitated badass, this issue continues to warp Marvel history into something Cool!!!! that makes no sense -- for example, a place where Thanos has been around for a million years without doing anything noteworthy, and the Phoenix spends so much time on Earth it should have its mailing address here. And Mephisto outdoing Apocalypse for this year's "Forget All That, This Has Been My REAL Plan All Along!" award. Can't wait until this One Million BC nonsense is history.