Avengers: Revelations
I’m not sure what the point was here, or what revelations are being referring to. What we have are four completely unrelated stand-alone comics. They’re each pretty good, but also different not only in the characters involved but also in the tone and art. So I really have to look at each separately.
Thanos Annual #1: the weakest story in the group has Thanos, just after being defeated in the fight over the Cosmic Cube, being visited by an avatar of the Thanos of the Infinity Gauntlet series who introduces him to his possible fate. Or a possible fate. Because anything is possible. Which means it’s not really fate. This was the lead-in to a new storyline but it’s all heavy breathing about infinity and eternity and the multiverse, with no action.
Uncanny Avengers Annual #1: a whole bunch of Avengers and X-Men (the Avengers Unity Division) and the Avengers of the Supernatural (their first appearance) are whisked off to the Mojoworld to be part of one of Mojo’s failing TV shows, this one with the show-stopping title “Martian Transylvania Super Hero Mutant Monster Hunter High School.” But then Ghost Rider goes off script. Lively and funny, but something about Mojo just doesn’t work for me.
New Avengers Annual #1: Dr. Strange saves a Tibetan princess who has been possessed by a demon, which he fights while having flashbacks to a past experience where he failed to save a man’s life in a brain operation. Marco Rudy’s art is the real draw here, as it gives the rather simple story an epic, phantasmagoric feel.
Avengers Annual #1: Christmas at Avengers HQ, and a loitering misfit girl starts making cos-playing doppelgangers of herself impersonating the rest of the Avengers. I thought this was the best story in the book, moving very quickly and being full of smart and funny twists. Captain America helping out at the soup kitchen was a bit hokey, but otherwise everything went down well.
Some good reading then, but a grab-bag because there’s nothing connecting any of the stories. It’s probably best taken as a sort of sampler to see if any of the titles appeals enough to hook you on them, and I think a couple might.
Alex Good 
Uncanny Avengers? Doesn’t the X-franchise have ENOUGH titles already?
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Oh man, I tried for a while but I could never keep up with all the changes. You had to read everything. There was the New Avengers, which had Wolverine, and they fought the Bad X-Men for a while. I mean, all the old teams basically got put in a blender a while back and I gave up on figuring out what was going on. Full credit to readers who have it all straight in their heads, but basically in the multiverse anything goes.
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Yeah, once the multiverse became the norm, it was anyone’s guess of what could occur.
I miss the days when Thanos was just a purse snatcher and hit little old ladies over the head and the Avengers stopped him.
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Those were the days. And Luke Cage and Iron Fist were basically just fighting gangsters.
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Yep. That’s all the audience wanted, some pow pow, some bad guys getting beat, and everyone was happy.
Now everything is cosmic level. And it is silly….
goodness, when did we turn into old grumpsters on the porch?
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I was a grumpy old man in my 20s. I hope to be a young punk in my 80s.
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Rock on, gramppaw….
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On a side note, who is the chickie-boo on the cover with apparently no clothes on? Right side, middle…
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Ha! When I was posting the cover image I had the same question. And I’d read the story!
I believe it is Satana, even though she never appears in that get-up (or lack of get-up) in the comic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satana_(Marvel_Comics)
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Ahhh, so just pure clickbait for the teen boys. That sounds about right for a comic…
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I like his collaboration with Rob Thomas on Smooth.
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And he kept his shirt on in the video.
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I think Captain America was supposed to be hokey. I’m beginning to think I’m glad I never got into the comics, I would be confused dot com.
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Well, he’s representing the red, white, and blue so he has to be kept pretty pure. The Marvel metaverse is very confusing, and given this book is a collection of four random titles it’s even more so.
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Is this post available in English?
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No, but Google translate should be able to convert it into a passable Hibernian.
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