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Avengers Forever Kindle & comiXology
-- no matter the odds, no matter the sacrifice. But now, Earth's
Mightiest Heroes face a different find of menace. A menace so great, it
has made allies out of sworn enemies. This seemingly unconquerable
enemy is ... the future! Seven time-lost Avengers--plucked from the
past, present, and future--must protect their longtime ally Rick Jones
from death at the hands of Immortus, the Master of Time. To find out
why Rick has been targeted for elimination, the Avengers must join
forces with Kang the Conqueror, one of the team's deadliest, most
implacable foes n a cosmic battle that stretches from the Old West to
the End of Time. As they do so, they discover they're fighting not just
for one life, but for the very destiny of mankind--against a greater
foes than they could possibly imagine.
Collecting: Avengers Forever #1-12 -- written by Kurt Busiek and Roger Stern, and illustrated by Carlos Pacheco and Jesus Merino.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherMarvel
- Publication dateNovember 9, 2011
- Reading age13 - 17 years
- Grade level4 and up
- File size1231118 KB
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- ASIN : B00AAJQVEK
- Publisher : Marvel (November 9, 2011)
- Publication date : November 9, 2011
- Language : English
- File size : 1231118 KB
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- Print length : 304 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #263,771 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the authors
Roger Stern has written for radio, television, the stage, and the Internet, creating scripts for everything from sketch comedy to flash-animation. For ten years, he was the senior writer of the Superman series for DC Comics. Stern has written hundreds of stories about such diverse characters as Green Lantern, Supergirl, Starman, the Atom, and the Justice League for DC Comics; and Spider-Man, Captain America, Doctor Strange, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, and the Avengers for Marvel. His first prose novel, The Death and Life of Superman, was a New York Times bestseller.
Kurt Busiek is the New York Times bestselling author of ASTRO CITY, MARVELS, ARROWSMITH, SHOCKROCKETS and dozens of other comics, including such well-known titles as SUPERMAN, IRON MAN and AVENGERS, and his own creations, including THUNDERBOLTS, THE WIZARD'S TALE, TOOTH & CLAW, SUPERSTAR and more.
He's won over two dozen industry awards, including the coveted Eisner Award for Best New Series, Best Series, Best Single Issue and more, and the Harvey Award for Best Writer, Best Series and others. He even won Wizard Awards for Comics' Greatest Moment...twice.
Born in Boston, he now makes his home somewhere in the vast Pacific Northwest, with his wife, two children and a Welsh corgi.
On the web:
busiek.com
twitter.com/kurtbusiek
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Official-Kurt-Busiek-Page/201264465828
http://kurtbusiek.tumblr.com
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It was pretty good, but it didn't quite live up to my expectations. If Busiek has a flaw as a writer, it's his tendency to try to cram TOO MUCH onto the page at once. One pities his poor artists: "Okay, in this next panel, the Avengers fight an army of millions of soldiers ripped from history. Okay, now have a panel that shows all the Avengers from all the GOOD parallel realities fighting all the Avengers from EVIL parallel realities!"
These scenes (which really happen) sound super cool in theory, but the actual result of trying to depict them on the pages of a graphic novel is a sort of a sprawling mess that can be hard to digest visually. Again, I don't fault the artists, they are absolutely doing the best they can with these sorts of impossible demands. But some pages look like The Ten Commandments, only with superheroes.
One thing you can definitely say for this book: it's ambitious.
The Avengers team in "Avengers Forever" is actually sort of an Avengers 'super-group' composed of heroes pulled (apparently) at random from different eras. There are Avengers from the early days, Avengers from recent comics, and Avengers that are from comics that haven't even happened yet (or never did - one of my favorite parts includes an encounter with the 50's Avengers, a hypothetical team that includes 3D Man). There are no less than two Henry Pyms on the team, one the sober Goliath Pym who is married to Wasp, and one the unbalanced Yellowjacket Pym. There's also an arrow-less Hawkeye, a future Captain Marvel, and a reformed Songbird from an alternate universe. And let's not forget Rick Jones and his 'evolutionary potential'.
And the team leader? The Wasp. She's back and she is bad-ass, in stark contrast to the useless, sexist portrayal of her in the original comics.
Oh, Cap's around too, but this version of Cap happens to be the one that's just found out that he's been betrayed by his own government and is questioning everything he knows. He spends a lot of time moping around but dives into action when called for.
The conflict in "Forever" is that reformed villain Immortus, under the instructions of three time-traveling beings called The Time Keepers, has settled into a new role as preserver of order throughout the centuries. The problem is that in many timelines, humanity rises up to become an murderous, unstoppable, all-conquering force throughout the galaxy. Immortus has decided he needs to nip this in the bud, and the first step to doing so is killing honorary Avenger Rick Jones.
But Immortus is opposed by another time traveler, Kang the Conquerer, who has teamed up with some other Avengers super-villains: the Supreme Intelligence and Libra, Master of the Balance. Oh, and Immortus is actually just an older, mellower version of Kang, making this a fairly unusual match-up. The Avengers themselves are a little confused, but wind up siding with Kang and the Supreme Intelligence, since they are trying to save Rick Jones while Immortus is trying to kill him.
However, Immortus quickly gains a powerful artifact that allows him great control over all timelines, so the Avengers are forced to flee time entirely, less they be erased from existence. Confused yet? We're just getting started! Soon the Avengers are making excursions into the Old West, the 1950's and Kang's cross-time fortress, Chronopolis.
Busiek has written a love letter here to Avengers lore, with references to events and characters across most of the various Avengers comic incarnations. This is awesome if you're an Avengers Superfan, and kind of confusing for everyone else.
Personally, I think one of the reasons superhero comics suffer is because there is a perceived high barrier to entry. Someone who is interested in a comic like the Avengers might feel, rightly or wrongly, like they can't just dive in because they'll be lost. Books like Avengers Forever will only reinforce that perception.
In fact, "Forever" is so dense with references that there is an actual footnoted reference section at the back, briefly explaining what the significance of that one dude who appears on a monitor in panel 42 is. Supposedly you don't NEED to know any of this, but presumably if you do, you'll enjoy the book more. This just reinforces the perception that a book like this is only for people with vast and encyclopedic knowledge of the Marvel Universe.
But enough with the criticisms. This is a graphic novel that is massive in scope and epic in scale, with a whose-who of Avengers and Super-villains teaming up or doing battle as they travel across time and space. In many ways it's everything an epic superhero comic should be. If you can just relax, not worry about the stuff you don't know, and go along for the ride, it's a lot of fun.
This book is all about Time - Immortus, at the direction of the Time Keepers, is wiping out divergent timelines in which humanity wreaks havoc on the galaxy, for of all the races in the galaxy, humanity presents the greatest threat. Key to humanity's threat is young Rick Jones, who wields the Destiny Force - eliminate Jones, and humanity's threat is also eliminated. However, Rick has unexpected guardians in the Supreme Intelligence, Libra, and Kang the Conqueror - and give even a little protection from Immortus's attack, Rick subconsciously summons a group of Avengers from the group's past, present and future to fight the Destiny War.
The Avengers assembled are not necessarily a "dream team," but they each are called for a particular purpose that will give them their best chance for success - and if this isn't clear, it's expressly spelled out in one of the later issues. Therein lies the problem: if the story itself can't show the particular value of the members without telling you outright, it may have gotten convoluted along the way.
Some Avengers end up in times when they can't act, because they've arrived in a story that has already been played out in another manner (always handy to have an Avenger from the future to help sort those out). Some Avengers find themselves in unprecedented territory - because the events are subsequently wiped out of the timeline. "I don't remember that happening," Hank Pym might lament; don't worry, Hank, you're not losing your mind - that just happened in an alternate reality. It becomes too easy to use to throw in plot twists, or to explain plot holes.
"Avengers Forever" is an ambitious story, and in the end, it was satisfying; it just felt like it could have been tightened up, maybe would have been excellent at 8-10 issues instead of the twelve it filled.
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La historia es complicada pues involucra a Kang e, inevitablemente, viajes en el tiempo. Un grupo de Avengers de distintas líneas temporales se forma para derrotarlo.
Este volumen incluye los 12 números de la historia, por lo que no necesitas adquirir otra más. También trae algunos extras, como las portadas alternas.
Avengers Forever está plagado de referencias y será difícil seguirlas. La ventaja es que hay un anexo en texto donde se explican la mayoría de ellas. De esta forma, aunque no seas tan conocedor, será comprensible.
Una de las próximas películas de Marvel llevará este nombre y probablemente tendrá alguna especie de inspiración en este relato; sin embargo, no es necesario leer Avengers Forever, dado que las adaptaciones en cine son muy libres. Lo que sí, que leer este volumen de buen precio, probablemente te haga más aficionado de lo que ya eres. Y si no lo eres, te hará entrar en el mundo del comic.