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Review: Avengers: No Surrender

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A hyped up weekly comic event that delivered?! That’s Avengers: No Surrender which brought together the various Avengers teams for a story that could only be told in comics… it’s that epic!

Avengers: No Surrender collects Avengers #675-#690 by Mark Waid, Al Ewing, Jim Zub, Pepe Larraz, David Curiel, Kim Jacinto, Mike Perkins, Stefano Caselli, Sean Izaakse, Paco Medina, Joe Bennett, Juan Vlasco, Ruy Jose, and Cory Petit.

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Review: Sentry: Man of Two Worlds

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The Sentry is back but what does that mean for the Marvel Universe? Writer Jeff Lemire explores the duality of the character in this series.

Sentry: Man of Two Worlds collects issues #1-5 by Jeff Lemire, Kim Jacinto, Joshua Cassara, and Rain Beredo.

Get your copy in comic shops now and book stores December 31! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

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The Sentry Returns with Jeff Lemire and Kim Jacinto

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This June, The Sentry is returning to the Marvel Universe, along with writer Jeff Lemire and Kim Jacinto in an all-new story as part of Marvel’s “fresh start.”

The character made his dramatic return in the current Doctor Strange storyline and Lemire will explore the emotional depth of the character as well dig into the psychology of him.

Sentry #1 flies on to shelves June 27, 2018 with story by Lemire, art by Jacinto and cover by Bryan Hitch.

 

Review: Avengers #679

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AVENGERS #679Who is the Challenger? What is at stake in his grudge match with the Grandmaster? And when the two of them clash, can the Earth survive the destruction they unleash?

“No Surrender” continues in Avengers #679 and we now have a better idea who the Grandmaster’s opponent is and why they’re battling. Taking a break from the action, writers Mark Waid, Al Ewing, and Jim Zub use the issue to explore the Elders who are using Earth as a Chessboard for their own pissing match.

Waid, Ewing, and Zub deliver an excellent entry that explains exactly what’s going on and why filling in more history of the Marvel Universe. The issue feels like a solid explanation for new readers and should entertain long time fans too. It also sets up the rivalry well keeping it simple and in by doing so also making it easy to relate to.

But, what the issue does that’s impressive is provide that “reflecting” issue due to the Human Torch’s “death” without an entire issue of characters mourning something we know isn’t true. They break expectations that way and shake up the narrative. That aspect is there but it’s relegated to a few pages instead of an entire issue.

The art by Kim Jacinto is excellent creating a cosmic feel of it all. The Grandmaster and the Challenger in ways feel like gods to the pawns being used in their battles. The designs are fantastic in both characters and settings and the focus on character expressions when dealing with Storms’ “death” adds emotion in a minimum amount of ways. Instead of pages, it’s panels.

The issue is a solid chapter that slows things down a little just as it was ramping up. It takes a step back to reveal more pieces of the puzzle and delivers a nice twist at the end just when you think everything’s been explained and all pieces are on the board.

There’s also fun added to each issue with extras. Here we get some of the thought process as to the design of the Challenger as well as Mark Waid explaining some of what we saw last issue, the type of debate comic fans love.

This continues to be an event that’s a hell of a lot of fun and living up to the hype, exactly what I was hoping it would be.

Story: Mark Waid, Al Ewing, Jim Zub Art: Aaron Kim Jacinto Cover Art: Mark Brooks
Story: 9.0 Art: 9.0 Overall: 9.0 Recommendation: Buy

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Avengers: No Surrender: Third Month Covers

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Avengers: Disassemble! The epic weekly takeover continues this February when Paco Medina takes the reigns to draw the third month of Marvel’s biggest team adventure, and Marvel is excited to reveal the covers for issues #683 – #686 of Avengers: No Surrender by Mark Brooks as well as the first look at February’s interlocking variant covers by Nick Bradshaw!

Month three of Avengers: No Surrender takes its epic storytelling to another level, as Jarvis’ life hangs by a thread and the Black Order is on the attack. And as if the Avengers don’t have enough to worry about, they’ll need to deal with a betrayal of one of their own.

Co-written by Mark Waid, Al Ewing and Jim Zub with art by Pepe Larraz, Kim Jacinto, and Paco Medina, Avengers: No Surrender unites the casts and creative teams of three titles into one weekly book of exciting action. It all starts with Avengers #675 this January, when the teams of The Avengers, Uncanny Avengers, and U.S.Avengers come together in a story as exciting and powerful as the Marvel Universe itself.

AVENGERS: NO SURRENDER #683
Written by MARK WAID, JIM ZUB and AL EWING
Art by PACO MEDINA
Cover by MARK BROOKS

AVENGERS: NO SURRENDER #684
Written by MARK WAID, JIM ZUB and AL EWING
Art by PACO MEDINA & JOE BENNETT
Cover by MARK BROOKS

AVENGERS: NO SURRENDER #685
Written by MARK WAID, JIM ZUB and AL EWING
Art by PACO MEDINA
Cover by MARK BROOKS

AVENGERS: NO SURRENDER #686
Written by MARK WAID, JIM ZUB and AL EWING
Art by PACO MEDINA
Cover by MARK BROOKS

Avengers: No Surrender: Second Month Covers Revealed!

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Avengers: Disassemble! The epic weekly takeover continues this February when Kim Jacinto takes the reigns to draw the second month of Marvel’s biggest team adventure, and Marvel is excited to reveal the covers for issues #679 – #682 of Avengers: No Surrender by Mark Brooks.

Co-written by Mark Waid, Al Ewing, and Jim Zub with art by Pepe Larraz, Kim Jacinto and Paco Medina, Avengers: No Surrender unites the casts and creative teams of three titles into one weekly book of exciting action. It all starts with Avengers #675 this January, when the teams of The Avengers, Uncanny Avengers, and U.S.Avengers come together in a story as exciting and powerful as the Marvel Universe itself.

AVENGERS: NO SURRENDER #679
Written by MARK WAID, JIM ZUB and AL EWING
Art by KIM JACINTO
Cover by MARK BROOKS
On-Sale – 2/7/17

AVENGERS: NO SURRENDER #680
Written by MARK WAID, JIM ZUB and AL EWING
Art by KIM JACINTO
Cover by MARK BROOKS
On-Sale – 2/14/17

AVENGERS: NO SURRENDER #681
Written by MARK WAID, JIM ZUB and AL EWING
Art by KIM JACINTO
Cover by MARK BROOKS
On-Sale – 2/21/17

AVENGERS: NO SURRENDER #682
Written by MARK WAID, JIM ZUB and AL EWING
Art by KIM JACINTO
Cover by MARK BROOKS
On-Sale – 2/28/17

Avengers: No Surrender Gets a Teaser Trailer

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The end of the Avengers Era as we know it is arriving…and it all starts with AVENGERS: NO SURRENDER! Today, Marvel is proud to present a teaser trailer for a story that’s so big and so dramatic, we had no choice but to make it a weekly epic!

Co-written by Mark Waid, Al Ewing and Jim Zub with art by Pepe Larraz, Kim Jacinto and Paco Medina, Avengers: No Surrender unites the casts and creative teams of three titles into one weekly book of exciting action. It all starts with Avengers #675 this January, when the teams of The Avengers, Uncanny Avengers, and U.S. Avengers come together in a story as exciting and powerful as the Marvel Universe itself.

Find Avengers: No Surrender in stores on 1/15!

Avengers #675 Gets Launch Parties

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This January, the end of an Avengers Era will come to the Marvel Universe in the form of Avengers: No Surender, a saga uniting the creative teams of The Avengers, Uncanny Avengers and U.S. Avengers for a story that is so big and so bold, it’s more than an adventure: it’s a weekly epic.

Beginning with Avengers #675, writers Mark Waid, Al Ewing and Jim Zub will band together to take on some of the mightiest heroes of the Marvel Universe, with art by Pepe Larraz, Kim Jacinto, and Paco Madina. With surprising new characters like the mysterious Voyager, shocking returns, and an appearance from almost every current Avenger, No Surrender is a story no fan of Marvel should miss!

To celebrate this blockbuster release, Marvel will partner with participating retail stores to host Avengers No Surrender Launch Parties. In addition to exclusive variant covers, participating retail stores will receive exciting promotional items.

All qualifying retailers will receive the following as the part of the AVENGERS #675 PARTY KIT:

  • Avengers #675 Acuna Party Variant (OCT170807)
  • Avengers #675 Premiere Variant (OCT170808)
  • Avengers #675 Party Invitational Postcards (Bundle of 100) (OCT170806)
  • Avengers #675 George Perez Poster (Bundle of 25) (SEP178147)* – this reprint of a stunning 1990’s Avengers poster continues the Marvel Legacy theme and features almost every Avenger in full 90’s regalia!

Retailers who qualify will also be eligible to order the following:

  • Avengers #675 Trading Card Variant by John Tyler Christopher
  • Avengers #675 Avengers Variant by Mike McKone
  • Avengers #675 Variant by Skottie Young
  • Avengers #675 Connecting Variant by Julian Totino Tedesco
  • Avengers #675 Variant by Alex Ross
  • Avengers #675 Sketch Variant by Alex Ross

Avengers Disassemble in Avengers: No Surrender!

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It’s the end of an Avengers Era as we know it! And in the team’s final days, a change has come to the Marvel Universe in the form of a story that’s filled with so much action and so much drama, Marvel had no choice but to make it a weekly epic!

Beginning this January, Marvel will unleash the epic Avengers: No Surrender with Avengers #675, a weekly saga that unites the casts and creative teams of three titles into an epic tale of heroic action, jaw-dropping cliffhangers, and drastic adventures! The Avengers, Uncanny Avengers, and U.S. Avengers come together in a powerhouse of an event that will be unleashed in a story as spectacular and epic as the Marvel Universe itself.

Featuring one of Marvel’s biggest collaborations to date, each issue will be co-written by superstar writers Mark Waid, Al Ewing and Jim Zub with art by Pepe Larraz for the first month, Kim Jacinto for the second month, and Paco Medina for the third month. The first issue features a wraparound lenticular cover by Mark Brooks. With shocking returns and brand new characters, No Surrender is a book where every character will get their moment…where alliances will be forged…and where the earth will be forever changed!

In the announcement SVP and Executive Editor Tom Brevoort said:

The Earth has been stolen! That’s the kickoff to the wildest Avengers epic ever put to paper, a widescreen adventure with a massive cast and an unlimited budget. Avengers past and present will be called upon to cope with a threat spanning out of the pages of Marvel Legacy #1. And like that oversized special, there’s a huge character return or two along the way that fans have been asking for—and one that they didn’t even know they wanted!

From Falcon to Black Panther to the mysterious Voyager, No Surrender will see an appearance from every current Avenger – those we know and love and those we’ve never heard of. But what happens when Lethal Legion and the Black Order battle their way across the Earth? Most importantly, how will this new incarnation of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes come together to fight one of the biggest threats the world has ever seen? This is just the beginning, but there’s so much more to come.

Don’t miss a truly inclusive celebration of the legacy that is Marvel’s Avengers, when No Surrender hits comic shops this January!

Review: The Unworthy Thor #5

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We finally get the answer to what did Fury whispered to Odinson. I will say first off, it felt very anticlimactic, but that doesn’t mean it’s bad. Like a lot of comic book moments, this felt very hyped and dragged out, but when we got to the payoff, I was scratching my head.

I won’t spoil The Unworthy Thor #5 for people who have not read it, but let’s just say it wasn’t the big moment I thought we would get, especially with an awesome writer like Jason Aaron. This could pay off down the road, so I will wait and see before I rush to judgment on that, but I just wanted more.

The Unworthy Thor #5 brings this miniseries of Odinson to a close, but it is far from the end of his story. There is a lot of setup in this issue for what seems like things that will happen down the road with Thanos, Hela, Death, that other hammer, and even The Collector. Things don’t wrap up neatly, but that is okay, because sometimes they shouldn’t. However, I still felt like I was left wanting so much more. Whether that be another issue or two, or a jaw-dropping conclusion.

Even with my slight disappointment with the ending of this series, I still enjoyed this book. It was fun to have Odinson back, while also not casting Jane out (though who knows what will happen down the road). From drinking mead to trying to rescue his home world from The Collector, to fighting talking dogs, to The Black Order, Thanos, and hanging with the best horse in the galaxy, Beta Ray Bill, I enjoyed the journey. The Mighty Thor is one of my favorite Marvel books each month, so I hope to see Odinson show up and continue his adventure next to Jane very soon.

The art by Olivier Coipel, Kim Jacinto, and Pascale Alixe has a fantasy feel to it that fits the world and lore very well. Even as we travel across space the book never loses that feeling. You truly get the feeling that this book is for Gods beating each other up, and the art depicts that in a very biblical way. The colors by Mat Lopes and Jay David Ramos bring everything to life with bright yet muted tones. It adds to the art to make a very unique and interesting style. Everything has a soft, almost dream-like feel to it.

I may not be satisfied with what was whispered to Odinson, but I did enjoy this issue. The whisper is still something that makes sense to the overall story, and still works quite well. Sometimes my expectations can be so high, that I can feel let down, but I would still recommend this comic to any fan of Odinson, Jane, someone who read Original Sin, or anyone looking for fun god fights. I mean, Beta Ray Bill is in this book, and that should be reason enough to buy it. So I will say in conclusion, that this book is worthy of a purchase. I will see myself out!

Story: Jason Aaron Art: Olivier Coipel, Kim Jacinto and Pascale Alixe
Color: Mat Lopes & Jay David Ramos
Story: 7.5 Art: 8.5 Overall: 8 Recommendation: Buy

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