Avengers #48 shows off the new Winter Hulk and she's very underwhelming. She's essentially a silent, re-skinned version of the current She-Hulk but blonde. The other major character is Gorilla Man and he is similarly underwhelming. He's a huge blabber mouth in this comic and readers will likely want him to stop talking before finishing it. The Winter Hulk serves mainly as a plot device for the real villains while the Avengers are waiting to show up and actually do something in the next issue. Read Full Review

You do come out of this understanding more of the lengths the Red Room went to to takeover She-Hulk, and the layering of systems at work does make her transformation believable, but what the book hasn't convinced me of yet is the why we're doing this at all. Read Full Review

Avengers #48 has its heart in the right place, but it mostly doesn't work. She-Hulk as the Winter Hulk could work in theory, but it reduces her to an unfeeling and uninteresting machine. Gorilla-Man remains difficult to care about as well, leaving the issue devoid of interesting characters or personalities to cling to. For an ensemble series, things will pick up with the Avengers are reintroduced, but this issue serves as a disappointing gap. Read Full Review

The art is top-notch, and the visuals make up for the one-sided Gorilla-Man monologues. I’m really hoping his apparent budding sacrifice isn’t a fake out, and he’s actually going to pay for his betrayal; successfully building anticipation for the next Gorilla-Man. Heres hoping it won’t be a character only mentioned twice in the last 20 years of Marvel. (I do like Echo as the Phoenix, just wish there had been more build-up.)

There are parts of this issue that I like. Gorilla-Man's suicidal tendencies; the brief bit with Blade. But this is just like... shockingly inept at being engaging. It's not incompetently written, it's just bland.

The Winter Hulk drags Gorilla Man along with her as she goes about her brainwashed assassin business, and he tries desperately, unsuccessfully, to break through to Jen Walters. There's some fancy (if indulgent) prose used to showcase Gorilla Man's depression, and the art still conforms to a high standard (though I suspect Javier Garrón is running low on enthusiasm). The story barely has a nodding acquaintance with the Avengers at this point. This issue is one depressed ape away from being a trainwreck, and no matter how nicely it's done, a nuanced character study of Gorilla Man is not what I was looking for.

There were some parts I did truly enjoy but, it was just overly worded and cheesy in some parts that I cant say it was that good overall.

More of build up for the next issue

Nem o Gorilla Man salva essa sandice. Na próxima edição, mais um show do Namor sendo extremamente mal escrito.

Jason Aaron continues to underwhelm with a book that is boring when it comes to the main character and over-wordy with a character no one really cares about. The art is great, but the Avengers continues to be a skippable book no matter how much Aaron tries to make it big, because, in the end, it never is an Avengers book at all!

Reviewing Part 3 of the World War She-Hulk storyline in the Avengers series. Aside from making me laugh with the hilarious design for She-Hulk this story feels like it's trying to hard to be something that does not work at all.

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I was asked to give this title another go...by the end of my reading this issue I was sure I could hear Roy Thomas crying!