About Heroes

New Avengers #36 Review
W: Bendis
A: Yu
C: McCaig

I finished the book and put it on the stack of “done reading” pile on my dresser. I walked back to my computer and sat down. Five minutes passed. I turned back and looked at the pile, “what the hell happened in that book?”

The question was rhetorical, because nothing, nothing happened in this book. No don’t get confused here, a lot of things seem like they are happening, but let’s run through them. My biggest complaint started out as a complaint, then I accepted it, then I realized nothing happened and it’s back to a complaint. The Venom Virus fight, it was almost a fight. I’ve really liked this book since Yu jumped on. I don’t know what Bendis changed to make me like the writing so much more, but whatever it was I was on with it. Ten there was the airplane issue, and now this one. The fight looks adrenaline pumped and a high-octane ride, but no, it suddenly…ends. Bam. Done, and Luke Cage makes a snappy wink to Might Avengers, “oh it was probably a big fucking deal for that other team, but to us it was cake.” Lame, just lame. It wasn’t even that cool of a fight, there was no tactic, no symbiote smashing, just crazy venoms being scary and attacking everyone, the heroes weren’t doing shit.

Then we have Cage and Jessica Jones talking in bed, where nothing “happens” by the way, yes their baby is sleeping on Cage’s chest but have they never heard of a crib. Cage still doesn’t truest anyone…that’s pretty much it. Then, like the cover suggests, Wolverine interrogates Spider-Woman, and gets no new information, surprise! Oh, oh the gang locates the Hood, does nothing, then between the pages goes and gets a FUCK LOAD of superheroes to deal with them. By a LOAD I’m talking about the Fantastic Four, X-Men, Iron Man (which doesn’t really make any sense still) and Howard the Duck, which is perfect because this book is a joke. D+