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Avengers: Disassembled
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Scarlet Witch may have lost it a bit.
Alright. I wanted to see what kicked off Wanda's nervous breakdown. <--the one that led to the infamous House of M stuff. You know, that time she went nutty and created fake kids that eventually got reabsorbed into the cosmos or whatever.
But this really isn't that. It's where Scarlet Witch remembers that she had fake kids that got reabsorbed into the cosmos, and then goes bonkers and fucks the Avengers over.
Big time.
At first, they don't know what the hell is happening, but as this shitty day wears on, they all start to realize that it's The Worst Day the Avengers have ever had.
Is it? Is it really?
According to the comic, yes. <--and it's really hammered home because it seems like someone pops up to say This is the worst day in Avengers history! every few pages.
Several deaths, an alien attack, a drunken outburst at the UN, a Hulk-out, and one exploded Avengers Mansion later...
I'd have to admit it wasn't their finest hour.
The last issue, Avengers Finale, is an homage to everyone's favorite moment in Avengers' history. It was a nice way to say goodbye to the old team.
But the bottom line is that this is the precursor to House of M and pretty cool, so even though it wasn't exactly what I was looking for I'm so glad I finally read it. Maybe it wasn't a perfect story but it was a lot of fun.
Recommended.
Alright. I wanted to see what kicked off Wanda's nervous breakdown. <--the one that led to the infamous House of M stuff. You know, that time she went nutty and created fake kids that eventually got reabsorbed into the cosmos or whatever.
But this really isn't that. It's where Scarlet Witch remembers that she had fake kids that got reabsorbed into the cosmos, and then goes bonkers and fucks the Avengers over.
Big time.
At first, they don't know what the hell is happening, but as this shitty day wears on, they all start to realize that it's The Worst Day the Avengers have ever had.
Is it? Is it really?
According to the comic, yes. <--and it's really hammered home because it seems like someone pops up to say This is the worst day in Avengers history! every few pages.
Several deaths, an alien attack, a drunken outburst at the UN, a Hulk-out, and one exploded Avengers Mansion later...
I'd have to admit it wasn't their finest hour.
The last issue, Avengers Finale, is an homage to everyone's favorite moment in Avengers' history. It was a nice way to say goodbye to the old team.
But the bottom line is that this is the precursor to House of M and pretty cool, so even though it wasn't exactly what I was looking for I'm so glad I finally read it. Maybe it wasn't a perfect story but it was a lot of fun.
Recommended.
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Feb 18, 2021 05:56AM
The Pile on of troubles was impressive.
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Anne wrote: "Scarlet Witch may have lost it a bit."Sounds like the opening for WandaVision :D :D
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I remember hating this event, then liking the House of M itself, then hating the fallout from that event. XD
It's crazy now looking back on this and seeing how much the Bendis/Millar regime over Marvel affected it's future and representation outside of comics.
So, I'm reading this too, and I imagine the conversation after the first issue went like:Finch: Wow, that was fun to draw. Avengers Mansion blows up, five Ultrons booby trap, She-Hulk gets hulky. What's next?
Bendis: Next is ten or fifteen pages of standing around talking.
Finch: What? There's no way to make that not boring!
Bendis: I'm Bendis, dammit!
Finch: (I hate you.)
What you're looking for is John Byrne's run on Avengers West Coast. I believe Marvel has just released an Epic Collection covering at least the first half of that run.
May I humbly suggest to avoid reading the avengers west coast run by Byrne? unless you want to re-read an hamfisted and godawfully written version of Dark Phoenix by Chris Claremont that completely demolishes an interesting character like Wanda (elevated to something more thanks to the Wundagore Nights saga) because Byrne is a penciler but not a writer, hence he can't write nothing outside small things like the Captain America/Batman team up. I know Christopher has a better opinion on Vision Quest, but mine is completely different. It's simply atrocious, even the miniseries that spawned the team written by Roger Stern was better than all the Byrne run. And that miniseries is nice, but nothing to write home about. I waited a lot of time to read it, now I can't wait to sell is as fast as I can, and I paid something like three euros to buy it used. It's not even worth three euros. He was Bendis before Bendis, too much obsessed to destroy things to make readers angry than to write something actually good or at least readable.
Eddie wrote: "The Pile on of troubles was impressive."Wasn't it?! Every issue was some weird new problem.
Ashley Marie wrote: "Anne wrote: "Scarlet Witch may have lost it a bit."Sounds like the opening for WandaVision :D :D"
Pretty much! lol
The_Mad_Swede wrote: "What you're looking for is John Byrne's run on Avengers West Coast. I believe Marvel has just released an Epic Collection covering at least the first half of that run."The_Mad_Swede wrote: "Here you go: https://www.bookdepository.com/Avenge..."
Thank you! I'm thinking I should be able to read that entire collection on Marvel Unlimited if I poke around and find the right issues.
[Name Redacted] wrote: "I remember hating this event, then liking the House of M itself, then hating the fallout from that event. XD"I'm re-reading House of M right now and liking it better than I did the 1st time around - probably because I thought it would recap the backstory better. And nobody liked the fallout. The new run of the X-men has finally (I think) brought the mutants back to something that's fun to read.
Tyler wrote: "It's crazy now looking back on this and seeing how much the Bendis/Millar regime over Marvel affected it's future and representation outside of comics."Yeah, they're pulling from parts of this storyline pretty hard right now, aren't they?
Christopher wrote: "So, I'm reading this too, and I imagine the conversation after the first issue went like:Finch: Wow, that was fun to draw. Avengers Mansion blows up, five Ultrons booby trap, She-Hulk gets hulky. ..."
Hahaha! You are probably 100% right, Christopher.
Doctor wrote: "May I humbly suggest to avoid reading the avengers west coast run by Byrne? unless you want to re-read an hamfisted and godawfully written version of Dark Phoenix by Chris Claremont that completely..."I might just cherry-pick some of what I want, Doctor.
Be my guest. A review on the page of Vision Quest says that it's a true butchery of all sorts, and I could not agree more with it. Years and years of waiting expecting to read something good, and instead it turned out that way. A level of writing worst than the one-issue continuity of plot of the Silver age (when one-issue continuity was the accepted norm)...from a guy writing in the 80's. In my book, that's totally unacceptable. Even if fans of Byrne tend to turn a blind eye on that. And of course Wanda, already mistreated in the 70's in dreck like the Korvac Saga, had to be mistreated again because male writers generally speaking cannot stand a powerful woman in control, like Wanda was before the Byrne cure.
Doctor wrote: "May I humbly suggest to avoid reading the avengers west coast run by Byrne? unless you want to re-read an hamfisted and godawfully written version of Dark Phoenix by Chris Claremont that completely..."You know, Scarlet Witch went 'dark' BEFORE Phoenix.
But, P.S., I agree Byrne only THOUGHT he could write.
I love that saga. It's true that Wanda is possessed by the Devil (she's a witch after all), yet the person with more maturity amongst all is her. She's treated with due respect. The final page with her speaking of her adoptive father is beautiful. In Vision Quest she's turned into a complete nutso because midiclorians wanted it, it doesn't make any sense. Like it did not make any sense in the Korvac Saga to see Jim Shooter constantly bashing and mistreating her even if she's supposed to be the strongest mutant of the Marvel Universe (I Think). I hate when people puts females in male-lead titles that could potentially be powerful and useful yet they continuosly make impossible to them to progress and be characters on their own, like it happened in the Batman '66 series with Batgirl, just because they're women.
I'm reading the one where she has her twins - Vision and the Scarlet Witch (1985-1986) #1. I'm not saying it's great, but I will say I'm able to read it without it feeling like a complete grind. I don't think I'd enjoy the whole series but I think I can get through some of the important issues.
I remember Eaglehart to be the one who reintroduced the living tribunal in the Silver Surfer Run and the same who removed the stupid limitations the character had in his first historical (and utterly unreadable) run. I don't know why people in the past preferred the latter over the former, but I'm not one of those.
this is the only time that SW gets interesting; it did spawn the New Avengers w/ a lot of x-over with spider-man, wolverine and x-men.
This must be the worst day in Avengers history.
Well, it definitely got me interested in seeing what brought this about. I've tracked down the twin's birth AND the (actually fun) 2 issues where they get reabsorbed into the ether. That was actually SO. MUCH. FUN. The whole thing with Pandemonium Man? Classic!
I don't understand the language you speak, woman.
Hahaha! No, seriously. It was fun. I swear!
Bruh I literally read this, House of M, and Young Avengers before watching WandaVision
Which Young Avengers? I'm reading the 2005 (I think?) one right now.
Yep I read the 2005 one too, where they were first introduced
I just finished it and it was really good!
Yes. Now I need to keep going with it, I think.
I don't know how you get through those old comics. They're soooo boring...
