Avengers

Avengers 93, 94

These two issues were collected in a “Special Edition” comic, issue one of the Kree-Skrull War.  I present here, without comment, snippets from the foreword written by Alan Zelenetz.  “It’s an epic so grand, only the comics could bring it to you...Even in this age of megabuck movie-making, the price tag for a production of this magnitude would probably trail its digits from the Milky Way...Special effects light years ahead of Skywalker and company...There’s not a studio that could touch this property - why, we’re talking maybe jillions here…”  

Neal Adams was way ahead of his time.  There’s a modernity to his work that blows my mind.  And it’s high quality modernity at that.  

I would never have thought that a close up of Vision's face could look so impressive.

Notes:

• Quicksilver’s pinball attack has not aged well.  I’m not sad that it’s not longer in his arsenal of moves.

Unfortunate.  Really unfortunate.

• Walt Simonson did the 7-page prologue to the issue.  It looks nothing like the classic signature style that he was employing over on Thor at around the same time.  I would never have guessed.
• There were no credits for the colorist, only Andy Yanchus as color coordinator.  Whoever it was, this panel of Vision stood out to me:

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Origin of the Vision.  One of the retconned stories in Avengers Forever.

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This was a pleasant treat.  One of the traditional membership selection issues that team books have from time to time.  It does a concise job of summarizing Avengers history.  George Perez does the art, and like Simonson, his pencils don’t look anything like the work we know and love.  

Regret buying?  No

Would buy again? No

Would read again?  No

Rating: Okay