RUN THE MISSION! DON'T GET SEEN! SAVE THE WORLD! A secret city buried one mile under American soil is discovered through the leakage of Von Doom radiation – a type of energy emitted only by time-travel devices. So the Secret Avengers head underground to a weird metropolis forgotten about for decades, because a time machine in the wrong hands is the worst kind of WMD imaginable. Master storyteller Warren Ellis begins his tenure on Earth's Mightiest Clandestine Super-Team, illustrated by Eagle Award-winning Jamie McKelvie.
Hooray! The covert-ops Avengers book finally feels like a covert-ops Avengers book. I love the fact that, for right now, it's a four member team, and the fact that most of them don't even have any super-powers. This book has a cool Planetary feel to it, and finally, Beast comes off as Beast on the page. I am a big Ellis fan, so it will be interesting to see where he takes this team. There's no real downside to this issue other than Steve Rogers being Steve Rogers here and Cap everywhere else. I highly recommend this issue. Read Full Review
"Secret Avengers" #16 is a nearly-perfect superhero comic book. I would like Marvel to clone this issue, program in slight variations (some should include dinosaurs) and begin cranking them out immediately please. Thank you. Read Full Review
Seriously, this comic impressed the hell out of me! I can't believe I was dreading this one... Now I can't wait for the next issue! If Ellis can keep up this sort of storytelling, he can count me as a new fan! Read Full Review
If you haven't been following this series, this would be a good "done-in-one" issue to check out. If you have been following it, this may be your favorite issue in the series. Read Full Review
I didn't know what I was getting myself into with Secret Avengers #16. Turns out, I was getting myself into good comics. Plain and simple. And judging from the teaser image for next month's installment, I can look forward to another fast-paced, done-in-one tale from this creative team. Sign me up. Read Full Review
If Spencer's run was the improvement upon the tepid Brubaker formula for Secret Avengers, then Warren Ellis is the man who is putting the formula out of its misery entirely. He couldn't be doing readers a better service. Read Full Review
Anyway, it's not the Secret Avengers you knew thus far, which were pretty cool and who we'll miss, but if you can handle the tonal shift towards high adventure, you're gonna like Warren Ellis' take on the team. Read Full Review
Ellis provides an interesting start to his tenure on Secret Avengers and Im eager to see where he goes from here. Read Full Review
I guess there are worse stories and worse artists for this series, but I hope the only way to go is up. Read Full Review
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