This was better than the first volume, as the story picks up speed and it becomes apparent that there actually is a plot. But I don't think I'm the right audience for Kot. His writing just comes across as trying too hard. Trying too hard to be funny. Trying too hard to be smart. He likes to show off, especially how smart and well-read he is, which doesn't work for me. Guess I'll have to see this through and read the third volume, too.

3.25 stars!Still a fun series, I'm interested to see how it wraps up

Collects Secret Avengers (2014) issues #6-10Ales Kot is a great writer, and Michael Walsh's art was perfect for this story. I loved this book. I'm a big fan of Nick Spencer, so I would have thought that I would have preferred his "Secret Avengers" run, but Kot's run is much more entertaining to me. Laugh out loud funny mixed with good spy action. This book is a winner.As the cover indicates, Deadpool plays a part in this particular volume. It took me a long time to get here, but I'm finally read...

They added 4th wall breaking Deadpool. So much fun.

This is such a fantastic comic, and I give all the credit to Ales Kot. I haven't read a ton of stuff by him, but everything I have read, I've loved.He even managed to make a volume of Suicide Squad not suck. So, it goes to figure that if you hand him an actual cool team, he could make it rock. And he does.And Michael Walsh's art is just the perfect compliment to this story. It's that kind of trippy, blurry, scratchy stuff that I didn't always enjoy, but it's really grown on me over the past few

I don't know if anything could compete with the demented and inspired craziness of the first two issues of Kot's Secret Avengers. This one is still very clever and fourth-wall breaking and funny, but it doesn't achieve the same heights. That may in large part be because it starts to focus on plot, explaining how the wackiness of the first volume fits together. And, it's still quite enjoyable, with issue #8, the MODOK spotlight, being a particular standout (and that one issue is quite as good as

This second paperback installment of Kot’s Secret Avengers is ludicrous. And fantastic. Why? Because there’s a drunk Phil Coulson, broken fourth wall, Deadpool and Hawkeye working together again, alien robots finding love, Maria proving how to be a real Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., the captions… These five issues collected are the reason I love comic books. Explosions are fun, and intrigue makes for a great plot, but sometimes Marvel takes itself too seriously. I know that many people in the Marvel...

This was so much fun to read. Just like the first volume, actually. Kot did a great job building on the story and characters he'd started with in the previous volume. And he did such an amazing job writing Deadpool that I'd be happy to see him get a shot at the actual Deadpool book. Deadpool, like Wolverine and Spider-Man, is often shoved into titles to try and boost sales because he's kind of a hot gimmick right now. But Kot gets the character and obviously had a great time writing him. And the...

Deadpool makes a cameo to help sell comics! Or to distract Hawkeye while serious Secret Avengers business goes down. Perhaps both. This book continues to be tongue in cheek, compelling, and funny. I highly recommend it.

This book zigged when I thought it would zag. It's Ales Kot, so what can you do? Two volumes, same creative team. Bravo.

GIRL FIGHT!!! This book opens with a shirt tearin’, bra strippin’, throw down for the ages…Ok, so maybe there are no bras getting pulled off, but boy do Black Widow and Lady Bullseye have at it. There’s enough fish-hooks, eye-gouges, and hair pullin’ to put a smile on this old man’s face anyway. MODOK likey.Hawkeye goes lookin’ for an M.I.A. Agent Coulson and runs into a super-fan by the name of Wade Wilson. Some of my favorite moments in this one are Kot’s take on Deadpool. Ales doesn’t just d

I do enjoy this series. It's very much a down-to-earth Avengers, even with the sentient bombs and pregnant androids running around, but it feels more 'real', especially compared to Hickman's current multiversal Avengers/New Avengers books. That said, this volume feels very much like the second act of a three act story, and without the third act to read just yet, it feels a little incomplete.There's a lot of character transitions as they move around the chessboard that Ales Kot has set up, with B...

This is a blast. Fun stuff happening here.

Man...this series is freaking nuts...and I'm digging it! So Fury is pregnet with some type of monsters. Hawkeye gets kidnapped by Deadpool. Spider-Woman is figuring out what to do. Black Widow is gone into some negative zone or some shit. Hill is...well she's a bitch but that's nothing new. All of these stories began to bounce back and forth and by the end you find out Modor's true intention. HE LOVES SOMEONE! Good: This series is wacky and insane. I really love the dialog as it's easy and a bre...

This series is damn good.If you want to read a comic that's, well, you know... comical, this is the one. It has the humor of Superior Foes of Spider-man, the character interactions of Hawkeye, and the tongue-in-cheek introspection of Deadpool, who, very intentionally, has made an appearance.If nothing else, pick this up for the two page spread of Deadpool and Hawkeye on horseback in the foreground with various images of their "bonding time" going on in the background. There's even a suggested so...

I wanted to love it like many have, but the writing and the visual style take one step too many on the road to Zanytown for me, especially once Deadpool shows up and does his shtick.

Deadpool, you just get me, again.

It's been my experience that comic books that reference the work of Jorge Luis Borges are relatively rare. Off the top of my head, there's Warren Ellis' Global Frequency and Grant Morrison's run on Doom Patrol, and that's it. So, Kudos to Ales Kot for not only referencing, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," but for having it figure into the story as well.So Deadpool shows up in this volume, and the poor, shattered fourth wall may never be the same. Kot actually argues with Deadpool via captions (and

deadpool and hawkeye are so great together what can i do to keep them like that

deadpool made this comic work. confused Clint a ton tho, poor guy