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Marvel's The Avengers - Age of Ultron Prelude by Will Corona Pilgrim

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This book collects three comics that tie directly into the Avengers movie series.

Marvel's The Avengers 1-2 does a decent job of summarizing the plot of the original Avengers film but loses a lot of the personality and fun that made it such a great film and fun story.

Avengers: Cinematic Infinite Comic 1: Expands a bit on what Baron Strucker was doing before the start of the film. It's not bad and a fair edition.

After this, we get into comics that don't actually tie into the movies by give you comic background on characters that feature

Avengers (1963) 57-58 takes the reader to the very first Vision story by Roy Thomas back in the 1960s. It does a good job laying out his origin, but there's a ton of exposition.

Avengers (1998) 21 and 22: From Kurt Busiek and George Perez's legendary run. This comes in the middle of a story but its such a good story and you can mostly understand what's gone on before, although the Wonderman stuff will throw some readers. The end to issue 21 is particularly great. This does make me want to read more from this series.

Avengers (2010) 12.1.: The Avengers go searching for a missing Spider-woman and find horrible news: Ultron is coming. This is the prelude for the comic mini-series Age of Ultron and it's really tantalizing. It does a great job setting the stage and almost makes me want me to read the mini-series even though I fully expect it would disappoint me.

Overall, nothing indispensable, but some solid supplements and insights into how Ultron's been portrayed in the comics.



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