Welcome to an all new Marvel
Meltdown, true believers! Each month we’ll select three upcoming Marvel
comic books and let you know whether or not they’re worth buying. This
time we’ll flip through the pages of Dark Avengers #10, put some cavemen in their place in Mighty Avengers #30, and brood in Dark Wolverine #79 in this special Avengers-themed edition.
Dark Avengers #10
Not all of the Dark Avengers stories spread over the
Marvel Universe right now are going to hook you, but Brian Michael
Bendis mixes intrigue with a strong enough plot that threatens to make
an actual impact.
Dark Avengers #10 starts off with a light
enough premise: two college girls go missing on their road trip when
they reach Dinosaur, Colorado. The name of the nowhere town sounds
harmless enough, but what they find there at the beginning of the issue
sets the stage for something more perilous than Osborn's team expect in
the following pages.
One of the girls happens to be the daughter of the Secretary of State,
and Osborn's new, very public position at the head of the national
peace-keeping organization, H.A.M.M.E.R., doesn't leave him much of a
choice when the Secretary requests the involvement of the Dark
Avengers. Bendis provides plenty of comic relief with Venom (advertised
as a new version of Spider-Man), spinning remarkable chemistry and
free-flowing dialogue between the characters. Of course, there's a
darker layer working its power behind the scenes—not only with the
awaiting dangers of the mysterious Colorado locale, but with Norman
Osborn's questionable behavior as he strides into headquarters in his
full armor as his new alternative identity, the Iron Patriot. Things
take a turn for the worse when the Sentry, sent to investigate Dinosaur
first, suddenly explodes off H.A.M.M.E.R.'s radar. The entire team
assembles in response, but what they find doesn't veer much from the
fate the Sentry met just moments before.
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