The New Avengers #1 Review

Writer: Al Ewing / Artist: Gerardo Sandoval / Marvel Comics Look, nobody wants to talk about comic book continuity because it’s like talking about the weather during a stretch of rainy days. We all gotta deal with this shit, there’s nothing we can really do about it, and the topic gets boring really quick. Still, when a release timeline is messed up coming out of a huge event that remakes your universe, to where the new books are getting released months before the end of the event that led to them… it’s a lot to dismiss. Enter New Avengers written by site favorite, Al Ewing. Of course, because everything is different now (or will be when Secret Wars actually ends), this New Avengers book is not the same team of Illuminati heroes before the end of the world. Instead, it’s a collection of individually likable, mostly underused heroes that all at some point have probably been worthy of their own book. So, we’ve got a New Avengers title, with the likes of Squirrel Girl, Wiccan, and Hulkling, with an excellent writer steering the ship. On paper, this is going to be a must read, right? Ehhh…

The strengths of the book: some cool interactions between some Avenger teammates, some good humor, and just a bunch of wide-eyed but not hugely prominent heroes you want to root for. Sometimes the humor is a little too on the nose or obvious, but mostly, the dialogue serves the cast well. Where does the book fall down? Often. Oh sorry, I said where, not the frequency. Team chemistry takes time…