Dark Reign the List Avengers #1
By Hervé St-LouisSep 21, 2009 - 21:28
Norman Osborn wants the head of former super hero Hawkeye who now goes by the name Ronin. Hawkeye has been very vocal in denouncing Osborn and has thus earned a spot on the limited list of contrarian heroes that Osborn, the director of H.A.M.M.E.R. thinks he must eliminate in order to have total control. Ronin does decide to attack Osborn and falls in a trap. Will Ronin make it alive?
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I’m not sure that I understand the logic behind another Avengers’ series. There are two being written by Bendis. Couldn’t he fit his storyline inside the existing books he has? I think this is Marvel Comics’ way of making readers like me buy more books in a recession. In hindsight, I may prefer the dedicated limited series where every headlining action occurs instead of this way of just publishing more books. I didn’t even add that one to my list. My local retailer figured that since I get regular Avengers series, that I’d want this one too. Well the story is good, but again it’s hard to justify another book, especially when Marvel Comics is happy to charge the most for it.
Djurdjevic is a great artist, although he draws his characters’ open mouth wider than Rob Liefeld. He gets pacing and page composition and it’s hard to find anything bad with his work. It’s crispy comic book fair and it may help to justify this fourth or fifth – I lose track – Avengers’ series.
Rating: 9/10
Last Updated: Jan 7, 2012 - 7:41
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For me this really was an action fair, barton has been calling for osborns head from the start and he final goes out on his own to get it. I can actually see why a hero like Barton would finally decide to kill someone, its just taken so long i can't tell when this takes place in continuity with other avenger stuff. Anyway, hawkeye ambushes and takes out venom, bullseye and daken fast and brutal and there is a nice moment between hawkeye and moonstone as the former lovers meet again. It was an interesting end and hopefully will be carried on soon in other issues but going back to Hervé St-Louis point, there's so many avenger comics at the moment its getting hard following one thing.
Side note, loved when they were discussing killing osborn and someone said what if you could go back and kill hitler and bucky in the corner let slip he did, in fact, kill hitler that just made me laugh.
