Avengers: Forever
Author: Kurt Busiek | Illustrator: Carlos Pacheco
"I'm sick of all this mumbo-jumbo!"
While it's not technically a 'crossover' story, it sure as hell feels like one. The Avengers assembled are pulled from different timelines, past, present and future, different versions of the same team with different members, to stop a threat that (of course) only they can.One of the most prominent threats is a powerful time-travelling villain who's at war with all of the good guys and a future version of himself. Time-hopping, cameo-filled shenanigans quickly get under way, because it's a Marvel team-based story and keeping things rational and simple would make too much sense.
To Kurt Busiek's credit, what could've been a convoluted clusterfuck of timelines and plot threads shitting the bed left, right and centre actually isn't, it's merely a woefully dull epic that I struggled to finish.
Things looked promising when the team was divided in order to investigate happenings that I won't go into, but instead of becoming three focused narratives unfolding concurrently it turned into three more opportunities to have people fighting and occasionally being dicks to each other. Actually, that last part was one of the more entertaining things. The team don't always get along, having brought their era-specific baggage with them when they were dragged through time. The personal relationships are the saving grace in what is otherwise a clever but ultimately soulless tread through some specific parts of Marvel history and continuity.
The text boxes are coloured blue for some weird reason, making it more difficult to read than it ought to be. But the artwork is excellent; Carlos Pacheco you have nothing to be ashamed of, sir.
Volume 14 collects together Avengers: Forever #1-6; Volume 15 collects #7-12.
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