Comics For Breakfast: Avengers the Frontier Years!

West Coast Avengers 8 and The Avengers 27 -Time For The Cremation?

  Well, I have to say that as of issue 10 (t's on a pre-order) I will drop the current incarnation of West Coast Avengers. At the outset it seemed like it might be interesting but it is a bloody mess.

Art style is now not that good and the fact that they can expend so little into one issue is astonishing.  The less I see of this tile the better.

Which,of course, brings us to the current main Avengers series. I am an Avengers man. I started collecting the series in the 1960s and then the low level of the 1990s hit and after the whole Disassemble crap I almost gave up. This current series is basically solo adventures or one or two Avengers teaming up but, again, they filter so little into each issue that even the art cannot distract from how bad it has become.  

"Masters of Evil" part 3....has dragged this 'story' out as far as it can and it is so badly paced and badly written -the hardcore unstoppable new Masters of Evil are beaten so easily almost as if the writer was stumped to how they could be stopped.

As a kid I would walk a couple miles just to find a newsagent with Marvel -specifically the Avengers- issues and even when comic stores started up but were miles away I would walk from one newsagent to another with little brother Mike and seek out the Avengers issues. Would I bother to do that now? Like hell.

I checked back on some Roy Thomas Avengers stories and they still hold good after all these years but they were well paced, well written and if it was a two parter each issue was crammed with action or characterisation. I read the current issue in less than three minutes. It looks like it is that time when a true Avenger fan needs to consider quitting because buying the series is like burning bank notes.

Any others feel similar?