New Avengers # 23 Review
This Review Was Submitted by Knightwingbk:
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Artists: Olivier Coipel & Mark Morales
Like Wolverine this week, this is the weakest part of "New Avengers: Disassembled." This issue focuses on Spider-Woman, Jessica Drew. Nick Fury makes a return! Yeah right, like he would return in any other book besides the main Civil War book. Here, Bendis takes everything he built up in the Ronin arc and the two issue Spider-Woman arc and basically throws it away. Jessica's triple agent status? Gone. Jessica's cool Nick Fury subplot? Gone too. In 22 pages Bendis has managed to destroy everything good in the issues of New Avengers over his whole run. Can't wait to see how he salvages this coughXORNcough!!!!!! Oh yeah, and Iron Man is a real prick to Jessica. So much for not making Iron Man look like an ass. And to believe I was on his side too...
Olivier Copiel was great in House of M, I loved him on that book. But like the New Avengers Annual, he's starting to slip into a manga-eyed artist. It doesn't feel consistent. If he is going to do manga, then by god do it, but don't tease us with the pseudo-superhero art. Yuck. Oh, and what is up with the double-splash page in this issue? How do I read that in order? When Jessica talks to her Hydra handler, its 5 slim panels on a half page for two pages, with no telling way of whether to go down a half-page or over to the next. What is up? This issue gets a D, the more I write about it, the more I dislike it.
I can't believe this book is this bad. How can anyone read this and not have a bad taste in their mouth afterwards.
Hi. Good reviews. I am always shocked to read reviews by prople that don't like Coipel's art, though. Just for comparison's sake, what are some superhero artists that you do like a lot? In particular, what do you think of Jim Cheung and Jim Lee? I feel like Coipel's style is a blend of Lee's attention to detail with a euro/moebius ability to convey volume. I guess, if you don't like Lee, then I could understand more why you don't like Coipel. same goes for Cheung. I would be surprised if you liked JC a lot, because his style is so similar to OC.
I am officially calling for a rule here at the website about the title, and the new "Mighty Avengers" sister book. Henceforth, until these books actually start being entertaining again, they shall be known as "WORST COAST AVENGERS".