Now that the holidays are over and we’ve got a good start into the new year I thought I’d just put up a quick update. We’re now just a bit over a quarter of the way through our adventure with the Avengers. This blog, as I perceive it now, will not cover Avengers going into the later volumes. We’ll be just going through the first volume and then moving on to something else (if you feel strongly please feel free to argue why I should cover the later volumes). Coming up I’m going to keep chugging along and doing one of these every week, to be posted on either Saturday or Sunday. I do intend on doing a blog specifically on issue 200, as it is easily the most controversial issue of this run. I’m not entirely sure what format that will take, but it will be very different from the standard blogs (you be the judge if that’s good or bad). Finally, I mentioned going on to something else after I get through the Avengers. Right now I think, Fantastic Four will be next, though I’d definitely listen to arguments in favor of doing individual Avengers books instead, or possibly even the X-Men. Please comment with questions, comments, suggestions, marriage proposals (sorry, I’m taken), death threats, or random facts.
Mike Kelly
01/25/2015
This month I received a one month free trial of the Marvel Unlimited app and have been testing it out. At first it can be a little bit overwhelming with full runs of the main Marvel standards (FF, X-Men, Thor, etc…) as well as a very respectable amount of lesser and older hits. The catalog boasts everything from the earliest comics (I found the first appearance of Groot, Tales to Astonish #13 1960) to almost the full run of the new Hawkeye series. After some futzing with the user interface, which is probably the app’s weakest point, the first issue of The Avengers caught my eye. The series grabbed me and am now up to issue #30 and have decided to keep going. I’ve decided every so often on my travails through the early years of Earth’s mightiest heroes I’m going to do a brief write-up with a few thoughts. This first will cover basically issues 1-25 and will be focusing on characters and plot points and very little on artists and writers, if you have any contributions please feel free to chime in with any comments.
First Post should be up in a few days time.
So strap in kids for the astonishing tale of the most incredible team of superheroes you’ve ever heard of!!
Mike Kelly
08/23/2014
The Avengers 