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Dark Avengers, Volume 1: Assemble by Brian Michael Bendis
4.0

Well well well, this was goddamn FUN!

Okay so Norman Osborn is like "United States? You my bitch now" and basically somehow convinces everyone he is a good guy. Sounds fishy right? Trust me everyone in the universe is saying that but the people, the PEOPLE believe in him. Holy fuck this sounds more like our current president situation than anything else. How did you know Marvel!? HOW DID YOU KNOW!!!!

Anyway Norman says we getting the boys together (and girls) to create the team of Avengers no one ever asked for. That's okay though because together it's a bunch of psychos who might kill you for some pocket change. Doing that they use hidden figures to hide behind. Such as Bullseye being the new "hawkeye" and Venom being the new "Spider-man" and introducing a ton of crazy big situations with some excellent fight scenes.

Good: This shit was entertaining from begining to end. I could read Norman dealing with this group for hours. Also the fights are crazy big and fun. The chemistry between the characters is top notch. Oh yeah, let's also talk about Sentry. Was he fucking scary or what? I need to go back and re-read New Avengers again.

Bad: The Doom stuff was a little much. It slowed the pacing down just a tad.

Overall I had so much fun reading this. It's not mindblowing but so goddamn fun that I can't wait to read more. I stopped reading Marvel around Secret Invasion and only got back around 2013. There's a lot I gotta go back and read and I'm pretty excited!