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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN num: 9780785119876
ISBN number: 0785119876
Label: Marvel Comics
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 120
Printing Date: March 26, 2008
Publishing house: Marvel Comics
Age index: Young Adult
Sale Popularity Level: 92607
Studio: Marvel Comics
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House of M changed the planet; now, a new, major threat has emerged. Nothing can stop it - not even Canada's premier super-team, Alpha Flight! The New Avengers are about to be put to the test in a way they never have before. Debuting the bombastic pencils of fan-favorite Mike Deodato. Guest-starring Ms. Marvel! Collects New Avengers #16-20.
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Reprinting New Avengers #s 16-20, the volume "New Avengers: The Collective" kicks off almost immediately after the newly re-formed Avengers announced their return to the world (see New Avengers Vol. 3: Secrets and Lies, which is another great book), and one week after the "House Of M" event (see House of M (X-Men, New Avengers) for the main story and various other collections/individual issues for an even bigger picture), which is something SHIELD is trying very hard to determine the nature of, and wanting answers from the Avengers, in particular Tony Stark. SHIELD Director Maria Hill is also quite peeved with Tony for basically going over her head, with the public revelation that the Avengers are back in action.
Any questions Hill or anyone else has about the new Avengers wind up having to wait though, as, from out of nowhere, the world is confronted by a sudden new threat. 'Out of nowhere' threats sometimes come off bad, but if you've read the previous 15 issues of New Avengers you pretty much know the creative team is going to handle this right. In the dead of the Alaskan night, some kind of force never before encountered comes from space and strikes the small town named North Pole. From the ashes rises a single living being. This being will become known as The Collective, and the initial destruction of North Pole is told in eight wordless, full-page shots, one of the most awesome displays of this kind of wordless, splash-page storytelling I've ever seen. (The rest of the tale is told in more conventional fashion) The Avengers team is reluctantly contacted by SHIELD to deal with this new menace when other options fail, and, along with ally Ms. Marvel, head off to face an enemy that they have no idea the true nature of. Although most Marvel fans probably know by now exactly what the Collective is, if you don't, I can only urge you to add this book to your collection all the more quickly, before you find out someplace other than reading the original story. This is some pretty grand stuff, and the ideas behind it all make the Collective crisis worthy of being presented as one of the most monumental threates the Avengers have ever faced.
The art - with Steve McNiven handling pencilling duties on some issues and Mike Deodato on others, and with great colour throughout - what can be said about it? It's great, the Avengers look iconic and heroic, both the Collective and Avengers member The Sentry look sufficiently intimidating given their incredible power levels, the action is epic, even the most 'mundane' scenes have a certain dynamic energy to them, and if Spider-Woman keeps looking this hot they're going to have to start printing New Avengers books on flame-retardant paper.
This particular story arc has special meaning for me, and probably for a lot of other fans, because it's the last Avengers tale before the "Civil War" mega-crossover kicks in and changes so much in the Avengers and the Marvel Universe as a whole. A lot of times after big changes in comics, things find a way - for better or worse - of working their way back to a semblance of how they were before. But no matter what the future and future writers bring in, is there any even semi-plausible way the Avengers can ever be remotely the same? If this was the last tale of an era, they certainly went out with a big.
Final note: the new aspect Luke Cage starts bringing in to the Avengers's activities in # 17: priceless.
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I am a huge fan of Bendis' work but I cannot recommend the Collective. The story was a constant build up leading to some finale that never seem to happen. The Collective plays off events that happened in X-men titles and seemed out of place for an Avengers book.In addition, certain elements of the story that needed emotional resonance (i.e. several characters deaths) were simply glossed over in exchange for more of the main story. Unless you feel the need to own all the new avengers collection then I'd miss this one.
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Very good! I really like the movement of the whole "New Avenger" series so far.
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Padded crudola.
Or, how to make 7 pages only take 10 seconds to read, or however fast you could turn the pages, anyway.
Many splash plages, blowing the crud out of Apha Flight as a throway to reintroduce a really stupid team, etc., etc. Absolutely enough to make you want to give this series the arse after similar episodes of padding previously.
Don't bother.
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