Cling Jonathan Hickman written there series with unparalleled Density. The narrative is extremely complex. We start by the end, we makes the middle, back then we come back we're back in the present. Never before a plot had been told in such a chronological disorder, so much so that it makes your head spin!
The wealth of all is indisputable. Conceptual, the series "Avengers" by Jonathan Hickman does not come to you, it is you who will have to go to her! You have been warned!
The writer places his narrative elements as a chess player up its pawns in order to develop an ambitious large-scale plan (to see very, very large scale), multiple cogs.
The drawing is done by Jerome Opena in the first part, and then by Adam Kubert in the second. Opena did a great job (even if "Thor" has a strange appearance) and benefits from the extraordinary color layout Dean White (recognizable at first glance!). Kubert is not very fit and makes a very ordinary performance.
Generally, the assembly is sometimes indigestible. Multiple time-outs make the opaque reading and unbearable moment. Most of the time, I love intrigues drawers and flashbacks. But there, it is a series of ellipses that make the dish too thick to be drunk with pleasure. As for the characters, there is not much space for them to breathe, let alone exist!
This tends to become constant comics today: The compressed narration. After years in which it was proposed to the contrary, new authors, probably inspired by the specialist in the subject, that is to say, Grant Morrison, opt for this bias narrative. The least we can say is that it's still exhausting and painful to read. We are far from the comics that were available to us by taking us by the hand. It is now up to us, the poor readers, to make the effort, moving, and venturing alone into the unknown ...
As part of the overhaul of the Marvel Universe, Jonathan Hickman has taken on an extremely ambitious project: He redistribute the cards in this universe by transforming the length of its run. In summer 2015, the US, the Marvel universe will thus sink into event "Secret Wars" and take with him the old continuity to rebuild a new one. It was these events, if I understand, who are preparing in the two series "The Avengers" and "New Avengers" Jonathan Hickman.
Before that, the run Hickman will bring together its two series on "event" internal titled "Infinity". The casual reader should well know that everything is connected. And it should read, preferably in order: 1) NEW AVENGERS MARVEL NOW T01, 2) MARVEL AVENGERS NOW T01, 3) AVENGERS MARVEL NOW T02, 4) MARVEL AVENGERS NOW T03. Then, 5) NEW AVENGERS MARVEL NOW T02, T04 and AVENGERS MARVEL NOW INFINITY alternating episodes!
For the reader fond of this new type of comics to the conceptual density "sends heavy," it is certain that the journey is worth the trip because Hickman is not mocked his readers and shot down a job in spite of unprecedented ambition a story so rich and "bigger than life" she crushes a little (sometimes a lot) characters.
For the casual reader having a little trouble with this type of ultra-compressed narrative, despite the ambition and the utter sincerity of the author, is expected later in the hope that all these will eventually form a set a little less abstract ...
