There are no spoilers here, but the best incarnation of villains has entered the fray as our heroes are trying to sort out issues among themselves. Page after page provides a lot of battles, one-liner comments, and navigation through a story that may be a huge Control Alt Delete to an Avengers Universe! So get in line to get your First Issue! Read Full Review

Avengers Assemble: Alpha #1 is the beginning of the end. The comic carries a huge weight with it, containing years of exposition... loyal fans may appreciate the combination of the series, joining three groups and multiple series into one epic. This propels Aaron's storytelling towards a conclusion of his own power, illustrated by one of the best in the business. Read Full Review

Avengers Assemble: Alpha #1 kicks off the biggest story arc for this Avengers run. Everything with Mephisto, the Avengers B.C. team, and the mysterious Avenger Prime converges here as the two Avengers teams meet and have at it with each other. However, this issue's not exactly a good jumping on point for new readers. The art by Bryan Hitch is good for the most part, with some scenes feeling a little more static than others, but it's good overall. Read Full Review

Avengers Assemble #1 is a slow and rather rough start to what is meant to be the epic conclusion of the Avengers' current era, stretching a clich hero versus hero fight to an unnecessary length. Read Full Review

We finally meet the mysterious Avenger Prime, an army of Mephistos attacks, battle at the dawn of time, but it doesn't feel like a story so much as the cold open. At least it's the open to a story I want to read. Read Full Review

If this storyline is meant to conclude Aaron's long tenure with these iconic characters, it's gonna have to do something a bit more interesting and unique to stand out in the broader Avengers pantheon of stories. Read Full Review

"Avengers Assemble Alpha #1 is a monotonous, decompressed kick-off to an important Avengers story. Read Full Review

Avengers Assemble Alpha #1 has a lot going on. And that might be the issue. There's three different stories going on and none of them are given enough room to really breathe and become interesting. The cuts between them don't help making the comic feel unfocused disjointed at times. As far as the start of an event, it does its job of catching up readers as to what's happening. It just feels like that's about all it does. We've seen so much of the plot before, it's almost comical at this point how the hero vs. hero over a mistake is still being used. This could have been so much more but the end result lands with a thud. Read Full Review

The most cliche of superhero tropes weighs upon Avengers Assemble Alpha like gravity as two teams with excellent knowledge of the multiversal, Earth-killing threat that they face still fall into combat with one another over petty grievances and minor misunderstandings. Read Full Review

Why would you spend most of this issue on a fight that clearly didn't need to happen. This should be setting up the story, and it only does that in the slightest way.

„A ghost rider with the power to ride anything in existence „
Can he ride a better script tho.

Half the issue is wasted on a stupid hero VS hero fight that is pointless and makes everyone involved look like an idiot. Maybe not Captain America who actually seemed like he knew this was a stupid fight. This was suppose to kick off the final arc of the this run, set up the attempted epic battle to come and it fails at that. Heroes fighting heroes rarely works and the reason to fight here was inter nonsense. It was filler and when you have an oversized issue, why are you bothering with filler???

At least the last, I don't know, third of the story started to get things going, which is why I give it a passing grade. Ghost rider not being able to use his powers was a bit cliche but after just establishing he could destroy the threat alone in the issue, I guess something needed to delay that deus ex machina.

I cannot wait for the run to end. I had hopes that the final arc of this brutal run would be fun, that something would finally happen, but this was a big disappointment.

I also think Jason Aaron hates Odin. I haven't followed Jane as Valkrie but I know at the end of his Thor run, (which was great, the whole time) Odin brought Jane back to life. She could show a bit more respect to the person she literally owes her life to. Instead she jokes about punching his face. Real nice person you are now, Jane. Our heroes, nearly all insufferable Jerks. more

Hero vs hero fight. What a total lack of originality. Aaron managed to make his Avengers in this issue ineffective, stupid and unbearable at the same time. Quite a feat. After that, Bryan Hitch is still good and there is some action. It's not unreadable, but I can't wait for the end of this series.

It's either a decent story poorly told, or a poor story decently told. Either way you slice it, it's a weak start to the climax of a years-long saga.

Man what a waste of time and money. Let's oversize this kick off issue and spend half of it on a unnecessary fight and the rest on a horrible idea for Ghost rider who could kill the Doom Above all last issue by himself only to stop him and then depower him because Aaron can't write a proper script ending to his crap saga. This close to the end after 5 years I have to finish and I will never ever read another Jason Aaron book when these Avengers books are done in a few months.

a pretty bad issue if you ask me.

Cringe

What the hell even is this? The entire two-issue book is nothing but one big fight scene. It has no substance whatsoever. I still don't buy that there was a Hulk prior to Banner. Truthfully, I've stayed away from Aaron's Avengers and now I know why. So, I'm not sure if these characters are from a different dimension or a different time. I really don't care, this was so bad. I picked up because of the art and hoped it might be good. I was wrong. I thought it might be connected to the Kang Timeless book, but I guess that one hasn't released yet.

Nothing good about this mess. Sorry I tried it.