Avengers #63 is the second part of Jason Aaron's Avengers Assemble storyline where the Avengers and Multiversal Masters of Evil finally fight it out. The art from Javier Garron looks good and the action scenes are fine, but there's not much more than that. Aside from one or two fights, the battle between the Avengers teams and the cosmic Masters of Evil just doesn't have as much kick to it. Read Full Review

At the end of the road, there's simply not much substance or interest to be found in The Avengers. Read Full Review

The Great Big Fight is a messy, montage-y affair, and the way plot and character details are scattered about like seeds in the wind could be disastrous. But this issue has 2 hooks hoisting the reading experience high (by this title's standards).

First, the art is a real tour-de-force of dynamic action and intricate detail. And second, there's the solid narration provided by the Cave Rider as he takes the point of view. The Rider's characterization isn't particularly novel or deep, but it does seem sincere.

(I dunno. I've given this title my fair share of red-dot ratings, but issue by issue, I seem to be out of phase with the consensus view.)

Much better from the previous horrible primer issue that left a bad taste. Still the story lacks a proper connection between these teams that are fighting to kill each other 1 minute and the next are back to back brothers? It just doesn't work. Jason Aaron failed to lay basic explanations in this story like how did any of these teams travel the multiverses in both Avengers books. The starbrand explains this final traverse but all the other dozens/hundreds are without any grounded explanation. The art from Garron is the one positive thing that saves this issue because at least I can enjoy his tremendous work on the pages along with Curiel's wonderful colors.

This really needs some grounding, both in writing and art. I could not get a sense of space in this issue. Everything felt disconnected. The art really fails the script here, even though the script isn't great either. Very disappointing.

This does not get a pass. I keep hoping things will turn around, especially for this last arc that should be action packed. It is full of action but still somehow boring. Here's why - it's full of horrible narration boxes with Jason Aaron just writing nonsense that don't inspire and make you feel like he kind of hates humanity. There's next to no good character work here. A huge cast of characters does make this hard to do, I wasn't expecting much but there's pretty much nothing. Characters fighting, narration boxes and fight banter.

Dr. Doom is usually awesome. Even when not written at his best, he is still great to read about. This Dr. Doom is not so much. It's not even clear why he is doing all this. Doom at his most evil (using his old GF's skin for magic armor... awesome) was still this despicable person but it made sense within the context of the story. This Doom is evil and wants to destroy everything. For reasons. Because he's evil. The plague tactic was a good idea but after it was stopped... why didn't he try again? If the means of stopping it was now gone... just do it again. The first ghost rider burns away the plague but looks like at the cost of his life... what's stopping Doom from just doing it again now that the one who stopped it is gone? Why write it that way, just have the Ghost Rider not die from burning it all away so if Doom tries again, he could again stop it which would be the only reasonable reason why he wouldn't just do
it again.

If you are going to get into Avengers, just wait until the next writer starts up.
Jason Aaron does have great stories out there. His Thor run was great. Wolverine and the X-men was fun with great character work. None of what made those stories good has been in his Avengers run. I'm not saying he is a bad writer, just this run is poorly written, and hopefully the next thing he works on will be better.
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bleh. What a wasteful event.