{"id":28558,"date":"2023-08-30T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=28558"},"modified":"2023-08-29T17:12:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T17:12:10","slug":"marvel-adventures-avengers-volume-9-the-times-they-are-achangin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2023\/08\/30\/marvel-adventures-avengers-volume-9-the-times-they-are-achangin-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Adventures Avengers volume 9: The Times They Are A\u2018Changin\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Paul Tobin<\/strong>, Matteo Lolli<\/strong>, Ig Guara<\/strong>, Casey Jones<\/strong>, Christian Vecchia<\/strong> & Sandro Ribeiro<\/strong> (Marvel)
\nISBN: 978-0-7851-3832-7 (PB\/Digital edition)<\/p>\n

Time for another anniversary shout-out, so let\u2019s celebrate the fact that The Avengers<\/strong> #1 (cover-dated September 1963 but on sale from July 2nd<\/sup>) was sold out on newsstands all over America by today\u2019s date\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2003, the House of Ideas created a Marvel Age<\/strong> line updating classic original tales by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko before merging it with remnants of its failed manga-based Tsunami<\/em> imprint, which was also intended for a junior demographic.<\/p>\n

The experiment was tweaked in 2005, becoming Marvel Adventures<\/strong> with core titles Marvel Adventures: Fantastic Four <\/strong>and Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man<\/strong> carrying all-original yarns. Additional titles included Marvel Adventures: Super Heroes<\/strong>, Power Pack<\/strong>, Hulk <\/strong>and The Avengers<\/strong>, which ran until 2010 when they were cancelled and replaced by new volumes of Marvel<\/strong> Adventures: Super Heroes <\/strong>and Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This particularly light-hearted digest-sized collection re-presents issues #32-35 of Marvel Adventures<\/strong> Avengers<\/strong> (from 2009), offering stand-alone yarns to delight fans with a sense of humour and iota of wit\u2026<\/p>\n

What You Need To Know<\/strong>: this incarnation of the World\u2019s Mightiest Superheroes operates an \u201copen-door\u201d policy where almost every metahuman marvel might turn up for duty. However – presumably because of their TV cartoon popularity – the Wondrous Wallcrawler and Jade Juggernaut are on scene in almost every episode\u2026<\/p>\n

Written throughout by Paul Tobin (No Romance in Hell<\/strong>, Plants vs Zombies<\/strong>), an avalanche of fast-paced fun begins with \u2018The Big Payoff\u2019<\/em> illustrated by Matteo Lolli & Christian Vecchia, wherein the team gets a most unpleasant visit from Special Agent Clark Harvey<\/em> of the Internal Revenue Service.<\/p>\n

This weaselling civil servant is ostensibly there to collect individual Avengers\u2019 taxes, but it\u2019s all a ploy to blackmail the team into forcing a bunch of defaulting villains into paying up\u2026<\/p>\n

Smart and deviously hilarious, the clashes between Giant-Girl<\/em>, Spider-Man and Luke Cage<\/strong> against Whirlwind<\/em>, the web-spinner and erudite philosophical monster\/political activist Oog<\/em> or Man-Bull<\/em> versus Iron Man<\/strong> are entertainment enough, but Iron Man and Giant-Girl overmatched against the Absorbing Man<\/em> and the childlike Hulk convincing assassin Bullseye<\/em> to do his patriotic duty are utterly priceless\u2026<\/p>\n

When jungle king Ka-Zar<\/strong> visits from the Antarctic lost world, all he can think about is learning how to use a car. Sadly Wolverine<\/strong>, Storm<\/strong>, Giant-Girl, Hulk and Spidey all feel safer battling an invasion of super-saurians unleashed by Stegron the Dinosaur Man <\/em>than sitting in the same vehicle as the Lord of the Savage Land in \u2018You\u2019re Driving Me Crazy\u2019<\/em>, with art by Ig Guara & Sandro Ribeiro\u2026<\/p>\n

When ancient Egyptian magicians turn time into an out-of-control merry-go-round, \u2018Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos!\u2019<\/em> (Lolli & Vecchia) are caught up in the assorted eras of chaos, with Ant-Man<\/strong>, Giant-Girl, Tigra<\/em>, Storm, the wallcrawler and Hulk frantically fighting just to keep up\u2026<\/p>\n

Rendered by Casey Jones, this titanic tiny tome concludes on a romantic note in \u2018Lovers Leaper\u2019<\/em> when all the female Avengers head off for a vacation break. They foolishly thought Captain America<\/strong>, Cage, Spider-Man, Hawkeye<\/strong> and Wolverine could handle things for a while, but boys will be slobs and soon the HQ is a ghastly mess of \u201cman-cave\u201d madness\u2026<\/p>\n

Moreover, since Hawkeye now needs a date for the Annual Archer Awards, he tries an on-line dating service, and uploads not just his but all his buddies\u2019 information onto the site\u2026<\/p>\n

With seemingly every eligible lady – super-powered and not – in New York City subscribing to the Lovers Leap site, our unsuspecting heroes are soon being bombarded by an army of annoyed women who think they\u2019ve been stood up by the utterly oblivious Avengers.<\/p>\n

\u2026 And when they try to get the owner to remove their details, the heroes discover French former bad-guy Batroc the Leaper<\/em> is in charge and unwilling to do them any favours\u2026<\/p>\n

Smart and fun on many levels, bright, breezy and bursting with light-hearted action and loads of solid laughs, this book offers a fabulous alternative to regular Marvel Universe angst and agony. Even with the violence toned down and \u201ccartooned-up\u201d these stories are superbly thrilling and beautifully depicted: a perfect introduction for kids and adults alike to the vast realm of adventure we all love\u2026<\/p>\n

These collected stories present an intriguing and perhaps more culturally accessible means of introducing character and concepts to kids born generations away from those far-distant 1960s originating events.
\n\u00a9 2010, 2011 Marvel Characters, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Paul Tobin, Matteo Lolli, Ig Guara, Casey Jones, Christian Vecchia & Sandro Ribeiro (Marvel) ISBN: 978-0-7851-3832-7 (PB\/Digital edition) Time for another anniversary shout-out, so let\u2019s celebrate the fact that The Avengers #1 (cover-dated September 1963 but on sale from July 2nd) was sold out on newsstands all over America by today\u2019s date\u2026 In 2003, … <\/p>\n

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