Nick Fury’s super clone, Max, is running around the Marvel universe half-cocked doing stuff. Max has all of Nick’s memories and used to think he was the real deal. He would take down Marvel villain groups who use acronyms (H.Y.D.R.A, A.I.M.), but eventually started using his skill set for misguided purposes. I try to imagine if, I, Jeff had a super clone out there. What would he be doing?a) Climbing Mt. Everestb) Working in a free clinic and helping the needyc) Writing world-wide best sellersd)...

I'll be the first to admit, it's really, really hard to get me to care about galactic Marvel. It just really doesn't interest me. I loved reading about Carol Danvers' adventures helping alien refuges and a few volumes of Guardians of the Galaxy were interesting. Beyond that, it's so, so hard for me to care. This Secret Avengers team is a strange line up? Commander Rogers, Black Widow, Valkyrie, War Machine, Beast, Eric Grady as Ant-Man and (sort of) Nova. I don't know why this combo was chosen (...

3.5 starsThe idea behind Secret Avengers is good, and Volume 1 has a solid finish (view spoiler)[Loved the Nick Fury/Max plot thread! (hide spoiler)], so I'm hoping for good things from this title in the future.I'll admit that I was a little confused when I saw that the guys in the other secret organization were wearing black spandex with a giant snake symbol on the front of their outfits. Is this a G.I. Joe crossover issue? Are these the evil agents of Cobra?!Happily, that was not the case. Thi...

I like the idea of this book: a black ops Avengers. Sounds like fun. The makeup of the team is... Well, it isn't exactly built for stealth. There's Cap, because he has to be in every Avengers book (super soldiers don't need to sleep), but I'm fine with that because he has this sort of work in his history. Black Widow is a natural choice, and considering his powerset, so is Ant-Man. Despite being very blue, Beast could do some good work here. But the rest of the characters seem like odd choices,

While I don't know how this ties into the Heroic Age event or crossover or whatever Marvel was doing when this was released, I thought Secret Avengers was pretty easy to pick up and enjoy. It certainly has an interesting team with plenty of potential. Steve Rogers, Moon Knight, a version of Ant Man (I think?), Beast, Sharon Carter, and Valkyrie make for an interesting and pretty diverse team. Unfortunately, not all of these characters got to shine in this volume, but I hope more will in the futu...

Steve Rogers is back from the dead but not acting as Captain America. Instead, Steve has been appointed the ‘top cop of the world’, the individual in charge of dealing with threats from all the super villains, alien attacks, black magic, powerful artifacts and evil corporations in the Marvel universe. Steve-O probably won’t be getting many days off.Steve is recruiting new teams of Avengers to deal with all this crap and this includes a secret team to gather intelligence and do covert type operat...

SUPER FAST REVIEW:I don’t know... I feel kinda meh towards this.On one hand it has solid art, great action scenes throughout and the characters are pretty cool.On the other hand the story’s a bit ridiculous, the dialogue isn’t very good and the storytelling is confusing at times.So overall it’s not bad. Maybe I would have enjoyed it more if I went into with Marvel superhero expectations and not Ed Brubaker expectations.3/5

A surprisingly weak entry from Brubaker, who's now back to writing Steve Rogers, the character he has arguably been best at writing in all his time at Marvel. First of all, I'm not 100% convinced this book lives up to its own premise. "Secret" Avengers to me sounds like this is going to be a lot of espionage and tactical superheroics set apart from the other Avengers comics. I mean, that's basically what this book claims to be. Buuuut, it isn't?In the first few pages, we do get some spy stuff. B...

Steve Rogers has put together a secret Avengers team to take on the missions no one else can.All I kept thinking was that this secret team thing has been done before and done better. It doesn't help that the team consists of the little to no personality group. Even the characters with personality never got an opportunity to display it. The Mission to Mars felt way out to left field just like Max did. I know a lot of people swear by Ed Brubaker, but I've had mixed results so far. I also wasn't en...

Fun bit of Avengers work - having Brubaker's writing complemented by yet another realistic artist is a treat. The story is interesting with just a bit of Brubaker's trademark mystery, and the action is gorgeously rendered as Deodato always seems to do.This isn't mind-blowing work but it is worth reading, which is more than I can say for a lot of the titles that were launched for the Heroic Age. This is *much* better than that "Avengers" tripe put out by Bendis/Romita Jr.However, upon a second re...

This one had a lot of potential but didn't really pay-off the set-up. Steve Rogers assembles an unlikely team of Avengers to run low-profile espionage/spy types of operations, so after a nice introduction featuring Black Widow, Sharon Carter, and Valkyrie they blast off for Mars... It's a group that doesn't really mesh well; in addition to those four we have Moon Knight, Nova, an Ant-Man, Beast, and War Machine, which is at least one or two too many and some of them have little to do. The art is...

This is the opening arc of Secret Avengers, a black-ops team of superheroes meant to work in the shadows, led by Steve Rogers, who is historically a character who thinks that a trench coat over his Captain America costume is an adequate disguise and as such would not have been my first choice for black ops. Brubaker's Steve is usually too grim and humorless for me -- and this is pretty much in that vein -- but I like the set-up, I like the team, I like the mission (mind-control crown! on Mars! s...

Vote: ☆☆☆½Storyline and dialogues were so lame that they reminded me why I quit reading Marvel comics for some time after Siege event, but Deodato's excellent artworks saved the day for good.(view spoiler)[And Captain America Commander Rogers turning into Nova for a few pages was soooo cool! (hide spoiler)]["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>

The Avengers go to the...MOON! When something bad is going on Steve Rogers recruits a few new guys and gals to find out what the hell is happening up on the moon. He recruits the likes of Moon Knight, Valkyrie, and fucking Antman. Not even Scott, the asshole one who doesn't last too much longer in the Marvel Universe from what I remember. So together the team has to take on Nova, who is possesses by some crown of something by a secret organization ran by...NICK FURY!? This was pretty fun. It has...

Loved it! I was so excited when I saw that this was coming out, and I am still excited now that I have finished. This graphic novel was perfection. Great action, great plot, and the pacing really worked giving this new Avengers spin-off quite a promising start. I also really liked the insight into not-Nick Fury that followed the four issues focused on the first mission.The team dynamics have barely begun to form here, and that will be really great to watch develop since I really like most of the...

This one was so good!We see Steve form a new team and well their mission is on mars to retrieve some serpent crown looking kinda thing and we see how he recruits them all and that thing they went to retrieve has taken control of Nova and well he commands the men of another secret group called Shadow council and then we see this team get down to it and fight and well the fall of some and the rise of more secrets and revelations, Steve becoming Nova, Eric having his own adventures and what not unt...

Fun book. It's nothing amazing, but very solid. Both writing and art are good, though the writing is not nearly as good as most of Brubaker's work. The team roster is very interesting, however I felt that most of the characters weren't used to their full potential and that it felt more like a Captain America book. That's not a bad thing per se, but I definitely wanted to see more of my boy Moon Knight and my girl Black Widow. Sadly, Nova was relegated to a plot device, but it was worth it to see...

6.1/10The secret Avengers, a new team assembled by Steve Rogers, in order to operate without drawing any attention. Of course their first mission has huge stakes.This basically jumps right into action and i felt it would be better if at first we would have some kind of built up. It also seems like Brubaker didn't know what to do with some of the characters, it wouldn't make any difference if Moon Knight was out of the story.

Ed Brubaker is synonymous with quality, as far as I’m concerned. I’ve read a ton of his work, from his Captain America run, his Daredevil work, to his creator-owned properties like Velvet and Kill Or Be Killed. So, when I read something like Secret Avengers, I tend to rank it on a Brubaker Scale. As such, this one gets 3.5 stars. Not peak Brubaker, but certainly a strong outing, with some interplanetary action, a few laughs, and some fun spy stuff.Deodato’s art was generally quite strong, but I

I wasn't expect much from this, another Avengers book and one with a name that struck me as kind of goofy, but I was pleasantly surprised. Brubaker has put together a group of heroes as a covert strike team, and he handles their first adventure with pretty impressive skills. I wouldn't have expected him to write cosmic action as well as he does, but that's my bad for assuming he was more of an earthbound author. Deodato is also well suited for the fight scenes, he has a dynamic sense of layout t...