Rate the Avengers Comics

[xMatt]

Which is your favourite to least favourite and why?

[UltimateTy]

New closely followed by Secret. My least favorite is Uncanny

[InformationGeek]

Mighty Avengers all the way!

Avengers on the other hand can just go away.

[xMatt]

New closely followed by Secret. My least favorite is Uncanny

What is about "New" that you enjoy? And you dislike "Uncanny"? I reckon Remender's been doing alright on that one, at least, he opened quite strongly.

[Tiamatty]

Mighty, then Secret. Then I care little for the rest. Avengers is too impersonal, New is too cynical, Uncanny is too grimdark, Undercover is a follow-up to a concept that offended me, and World is a half-assed attempt at providing the characterization that the main book lacks, without realizing that good characterization tends to be sustained.

[InformationGeek]

World is a half-assed attempt at providing the characterization that the main book lacks, without realizing that good characterization tends to be sustained.

Bingo! That's problem I have been having with Avengers World.

[xMatt]

So "Mighty" is the way to go! What makes it better?

[Jumpoff AKA JohnnyBlazed]

Mighty edges out Uncanny just barley for me, but they're both great books.

[InformationGeek]

So "Mighty" is the way to go! What makes it better?

I like it more than most because the characters are great in it, it's funny but still has a sense of maturity to it, and it's more straightforward superhero action. It was my favorite Marvel title that came out last year.

[hawkeyefan]

I think New is the most original and the best written, by far. It's my favorite, followed by the other half of Hickman's mega story in adjectiveless Avengers.

Uncanny is solid, and gives me a dose of some x-characters and x-stories without having to follow the tangle that those books have become.

Avengers World is decent, and has had a couple of strong issues, but all in all doesn't feel like it's establishing much that we didn't already know about the characters. The multiple threats all at once story is cool, but this book was supposed to deliver character work, and ironically, I don't really feel it's accomplished anything more on that end than Avengers already has.

[Tiamatty]

Bingo! That's problem I have been having with Avengers World.

Yeah. World was launched as the book where the characterization happens. But it's really not. What Hickman and Spencer should've done is taken 6-8 characters, and made the book about those specific characters. Don't just spotlight a different character every month - spotlight a group of characters every single month. Show how Starbrand is fitting into the Avengers, how Cannonball and Smasher's relationship is developing, how awkward Sunspot feels as a fifth wheel with those two, how difficult Hyperion finds it to relate to the other Avengers.

Oh, also, the book should've revealed who the LGBT character is already. Let the character out of the damned closet.

But yeah, "characterization" goes beyond just a 22-page story followed by them becoming wallpaper. It requires follow-up, a sustained focus on the character. Shang-Chi's been falling from Madripoor for 4 issues now - that's not a good thing.

So "Mighty" is the way to go! What makes it better?

Like InformationGeek said, it's fun, plenty of humour a sense of optimism, excellent characterization. It is, unfortunately, cursed with the hackery of Greg Land on pencils. Which means faces are traced, poses are static, layouts are bland, and the storytelling ends up being carried almost entirely through the writing. Luckily, Ewing's writing is excellent, and it does manage to carry the storytelling on its own.

[xMatt]

Like InformationGeek said, it's fun, plenty of humour a sense of optimism, excellent characterization. It is, unfortunately, cursed with the hackery of Greg Land on pencils. Which means faces are traced, poses are static, layouts are bland, and the storytelling ends up being carried almost entirely through the writing. Luckily, Ewing's writing is excellent, and it does manage to carry the storytelling on its own.

Imagine if it weren't, how good would it be, right?

[Anarchist]

New Avengers, though recently it dropped in quality.

[Kieran_Frost]

Avengers Undercover, the only Avengers series I currently read. Tired New, Mighty and Uncanny, dropped all three.

[BaneofKings]

Avengers Undercover. I'm behind, but it's great.

Avengers second. Going to try out Secret soon but have heard good things about that. Avengers World was meh, and Uncanny was good but I had to drop it due to budget problems. Am waay behind on New Avengers, and have only read #1 of Mighty.