Marvel's The Avengers: The Avengers Initiative #1

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• 4.0

  Entertainment Fuse - Dave Berg

  May 18, 2012

  The issue with this issue, as it is, is that it all turns out to be predictable. At the end it turns out to be a training excercise to test the security of the SHIELD helicarrier. On it's own, the reveal at the end is a disappointment, when when taken with the movie, the comic's reveal is an even bigger disappointment. The story might have been better edited as a briefing, or as Fury reviewing his files for a briefing. The whole training excercise to test the helicarrier's security just falls flat, and seems a bit cliche and predictable. Maybe there will be a trade paperback collection in time for the Blu-Ray and DVD release that will have some bonus extras. I'd like to see some extra pages and a copy included with the Blu-Ray or DVD release like the comic adaptation of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm was. Read Full Review