MIGHTY AVENGERS #9Written by Brian Michael Bendis
Art by Mark Bagley
I'm not sure what to make of this issue. It's done and over with in about a minute flat. It consisted of countless splash pages featuring the Mighty Avengers versus an army of Doombots followed up by pages of Doom and Iron Man standing around holding hands that ended with the two of them sent back in time to a Kirby-esque world, which I guess implies early days of the Marvel Universe. Oh ya, the Sentry tagged along for some reason.
On top of that, it did not tailor to Bagley's strengths in the slightest. It still looked alright, but the man is not what I would consider good for epic scope and battle sequences that would warrant like four back to back double spread splash pages nor several pages of two armoured characters holding hands in a stalemate.
Even now, though, I can't figure out if I even liked this issue. I don't think I hated it, but, for a book featuring a battle with Dr Doom, it kind of fell flat. Ares continues to be a doofus in Bendis' book and is basically a meathead and completely unlike his revamp miniseries from a few years back and even differs from the version over in Incredible Hulkules. It's funny, but kind of belittles the character at the same time.
I did like the parallels to the Doom vs Iron Man fight where they went back in time in Tony's own book many moons ago, but I'm getting tired of the Iron Man armour diagnostics. He runs out of power in 4 minutes. What's the freaking point of his 'Extremis powers' if the new suit is as useless as a can opener at a pickle fight. Yes, that makes no sense and neither does how useless Iron Man is in every book that isn't Iron Man or Captain America. It even made Doom look bad as he suffered from the same fate. At least Bendis remembered Doom knows magic. Kind of a plus.
Verdict - Check It. I don't know if it's worth checking or if you should just avoid it. I doubt you'll miss anything if you don't pick it up and it was a rather pedestrian outing for this title, which is bad if you consider they are fighting freaking Dr Doom here.
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