A brave new Multiverse.Good color artwork. Marvel comics freebie. A reset of the marvel universe , centers on the avengers, who must expand to face cosmic challenges.

Not as strong as the New Avengers book. A lot of padding.

3.75 stars. This book was pretty decent. The first three quarters of the book were the best in my opinion. There was a lot of cool interesting things set up. New characters introduced, some background given on how certain characters came to be and the white event that introduces a Starbrand and all what comes along with that. A lot of stuff that I’m now curious to see what they turn into. The last parts of the book got a little off that forward march that was happening and we get into the zebra

Started right off the bat with earth being attacked by an alien entity, avengers assembling and fighting the entity, and next thing you know, all of them are captured without a sweat and good old captain america is sent back just to warn the others about what's about to happen, only this time he came back with reinforcement laid out with Tony Stark years ago and kicked their asses, it was the second arc where it became really dark, the best minds of earth including Reed Richards, Doctor Strange

I've rarely been as disappointed in a comics as I am in this one. I was hoping for something great after Bendis, but Hickman is completely plot driven, caring little for most of the characters he writes. He's also committing the sin of Bendis, in devoting many issues to one specific character, and even worse, it's often characters that don't fit the team that he has shoehorned in. I don't even get the opinion that he really understands many of these characters.

My re-read of Hickman's Avengers run started here. I originally read these stories years ago. The first three issues by Jerome Opena has such staggering artwork, I loved it for that alone. Hickman is great at shaking up the Avengers stories and introducing different science fiction aspects. There is also this concept of "Avengers World" where teams can be brought together from all over the place. Some people we never thought could be Avengers: Captain Universe, Hyperion, Shang-Chi.

Reflection of Avengers by J. HickmanI gave this book a 5 star rating due to the creativity of the writer. The story lines for each chapter was well written. Good read!

Although it is Mostly a Build Up Issues But i Enjoyed it a Great Deal and Have the Sense Of Something Big

Epic in scale like New Avengers, but I feel a lot more accessible. Mainly read for Superior Spider-Man's appearances but I’m going to read Infinity and eventually read the whole run when the omnibuses get reprinted.

Collects Avengers (2012) issues #1-13I started reading this book after being impressed by Jonathan Hickman's other title, "New Avengers." The stories in each of these series go hand-in-hand, so I knew I had to pick this up. In this book, Tony Stark and Steve Rogers decide that the Avengers lineup needs to get bigger in order to stop all of the bad things happening to Earth. This is one of the starting points in the story that sets up the 2015 event, "Secret Wars."I originally read these stories

I have been reading through some comics on Comixology Unlimited lately. I downloaded this because I like Hickman's approach to making comics. I think he's an interesting thinker and a good writer. This was a lot of fun to read. I don't know if I would have enjoyed it as much on a month-by-month basis, but reading this huge chunk of comics at once was enjoyable.

A Quickie ReviewAfter a bit of a rough start, things got going pretty well on this recent incarnation of Marvel's band of superheroes. Old-school purists may bristle, but, for newer/younger fans such as myself, this is actually very fun.Score: 4/5EDIT: This wasn't as good the second time around; the artwork was fun, and the content was cleaner than usual for comic omnibuses like this, but the stories didn't do much for me.

Good characters and MUCH time and art utterly wasted in an adventure in pointlessness.

Hickman's Avengers Volume 1 was not bad. The premise being yet another refounding of the Avengers.Tony Stark and Captain America have a discussion about creating a new Avengers team, using a mix of old and new members. Including the "old school" guys like Cap, Thor, Hulk, Iron Man-they also bring in a variety of others from Spiderman and Wolverine, to Shang-Chi, Cannonball and Sunspot, as well as some utterly random heroes like Hyperion and Captain Marvel and Spiderwoman.The first volume has the...

An amazing kickoff to Hickman's huge, universe-spanning Avengers run. I really love how he wastes no time with overt exposition or the typical "OK, Avengers, here's the situation" kind of crap. He just jumps right in with some of the craziest Avengers stuff I've ever read. This really feels like a sharp left turn from Bendis's much more grounded, "realistic" run, jumping headfirst into big science ideas and philosophical musings about humanity and its place in the universe. This is the kind of e...

Starts off a little confusing, a lot of stuff thrown at you but once it gets going its so good. Cant wait to move on to the infinity story.

Definitely a lot going on. While I wasn't too invested in some of the things going on there's good stuff here and it's good. The new team here was really interesting and I liked the interactions between the characters. Admittedly I would sometimes be a bit confused on where I was and what was going on but it was still enjoyable to see all this for the first time.

I'm not typically an Avengers fan, but am reading this as a lead-up to Infinity. Overall this is one, long, drawn-out tale. I got to meet some characters I didn't know, or didn't know well (in addition to the new ones introduced), but didn't like the way that some of the Avengers were portrayed (Spider-Man, Wolverine, etc). It was a weird book, and an okay read, but neither the artwork nor the storytelling were superb. Not bad, just not great. We'll see how much of this was required reading for

I was so impressed with Jonathan Hickman's Fantastic Four that I had to check his Avengers run. I guess he's become one of my favorite writers so far.Avengers is a difficult title to take over. They've done everything already with this team! And yet Hickman managed to do something fresh while resonating rightfully within the Marvel Universe.My head keeps exploding with his stories and I love it.

Hickman at his finest Great introduction to avengers. If new to comics and only watched the movies this comic would still be ok to read, amazing work from hickman as per usual. Great story with great art