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This first volume of "New Avengers" is separated into two distinct parts. But this is a compilation quite logical since the plan is to make us live the end of the "classic Avengers" at first, and the training of "New Avengers" immediately after ...
The artistic identity is homogeneous because essentially all episodes posted here are written by Brian M. Bendis and drawn by David Finch.

The first part of this book proposes the famous story arc "Avengers Disassembled" (2004), which marks the end of "Avengers" in their classic form, followed by "Evasion" (2004/2005) which sees the formation of a unprecedented team, named "New Avengers" are aiming to usher in a new era, along with a reboot (and renumbering), history to revive a franchise out of breath and sucked again readers.
The ambitions of the writer featured home ideas are clear: Take the main "stars" of the Marvel Universe (Spiderman, Wolverine, Captain America and Iron Man), add visible minorities (black: Luke Cage, a woman: spiderwoman!) and blockbusters offer to readers of the 9th art such as Michael Bay knows the reality on a movie screen, with a good dose of event (including the deaths of several major figures of the mythology of the Avengers)!
The result is consistent: The series throws, do not take the head and eyeful (David Finch delivers impressive boards)!

Frankly, all this is not going to look very far. The scenarios are basic, without subtext or special dish. The general atmosphere is dark because it's fashionable, pathos takes over the strings of the script to give it a grown-up, shaping develops a certain violence to solicit at full speed. But we must admit that it does not work badly! The drawings are beautiful, the narrative is fluid, powerful and effective. Everything reads, otherwise a draft (300 pages, anyway), at least with ease and great pleasure regressive.
The defects are still many: basic, even nag scenario often pompous dialogues (Bendis being celebrated in that year in particular it did not set foot!), Characterization of the characters that light, ridiculous passages (arrival in "Wild Earth" deserves the cake!). But the qualities appear to outweigh: Getting grandiose stage (the 1st episode of "New Avengers" with Riker's Island is a massive escape of large graphic spectacle monument!), Ambition and total generosity (the action scenes and exposure of various characters have rarely been as impressive), suspense and surprises galore.
And above all ... The cartoonist David Finch will dazzle your eyes. The man is certainly often criticized: He is accused of frozen poses (that's right), an inability to fall facial expressions (It is rather true), mania crunching characters who all have the same head ( is exaggerated ...). He is accused of copying his much older, such Jim Lee and Marc Silvestri (so what?). Yet his boards are great, large and majestic. So yes, his characters are frozen and mono-expressive. But it exudes something monolithic, a bias that would not have denied the artists of ancient Greece, who raised the human figure to the rank of divine representation shaped marble statue. In this sense, the Finch superheroes are fully consistent with the subject: A gigantic fresco superhero pantheon.

Personally, I am allergic to crossovers. I never really liked the "Avengers" I have always considered a kind of "internal street crossover", and therefore as a business concept, thought for the geek mindless evil infant bastons. But I still let myself be seduced by this modern series, iconic and spectacular, which redefines the concept of "Avengers", namely the meeting of the great mythological figures of his universe and the condensation of this mythology. The latter, now staged way "widescreen", proves that Bendis / Finch alchemy keeps its promises and makes you want to read more. Because this collection is to follow in Volume 2: The New Avengers, Volume 2: Secrets and Lies.
However, the series will never return to that level more ...