By Mark Rodriguez
One of the cool things about Free Comic Book Day is that it always hits close to the release of some big comic book movie. Previous Free Comic Book Days have hit close to the release of movies like Captain America Civil War, Amazing Spider-Man 2 and the original Avengers. This time it hit just in time for Avengers Infinity War so naturally we'll have an Avengers comic book to tie in to that success.
The story begins with the Black Panther being summoned to Old Asgard by Odin himself. T'Challa has never met Odin before, but the Allfather has met several generations of Black Panthers. He explained how Mangog attacked several Asgardians but what it coming is even worse. Millions of years ago, Odin alongside the Black Panther of that era and other powerful beings killed a Celestial that went mad. While they had won, Odin feared someone even worse would eventually return for vengeance.
The Celestial was buried beneath Africa and T'Challa wants to deal with this. Odin tells him it's too late. The other day Loki came to visit him and reveals that he has revived the fallen Celestial.
Odin asks Black Panther to kill his son, something he could never bring himself to do. Black Panther will do what he must to save the world, even if it involves killing Loki to do it, but he tells him that the King of Wakanda is not a hired assassin. Odin tells him that he won't be able to save the world, and they won't be able to stop The Final Host, no matter who he recruits to help. T'Challa leaves saying that they will see.
Later in Manhattan, Steve Rogers and Thor ponder wether they should call Tony, since he recently recovered from the coma he fell under in the aftermath of Civil War 2. They decide to call him and tell him they need help.
Later on, we see Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Ghost Rider, She-Hulk, Dr. Strange and Captain Marvel ready to face what is about to come.
Captain America
The rest of the comic is a monologue by a female scientist as she discusses how Captain America back during World World 2 was good because America was good. He was right because America was right. But she wonder if this holds true with how divided the country is nowadays. Her plan involves creating lots of Super Soldier clones, basically strong guys with the American flag tattooed on their face as they head out to try to take down Captain America. She wants to prove that they are right not because they're good but because they are strong.
My Opinions
Such an interesting set up. It also seems that Iron Man is back in action, Thor has become worthy again and Captain America stopped being a member of HYDRA. It also looks like Ghost Rider got himself a new costume. Good art, and I also like the fact that like many times before, and even the movies, Loki causes some sort of trouble that gets all the heroes to unite to stop him. I hope to pick this one up too.
The Captain America story was weird though. I don't know if it's also part of an actual comic... but it really look like a long trailer for whatever is to come in Cap's own book.
I do find it interesting that even with decades of comic book lore, T'Challa has never met Odin until now though.
One of the cool things about Free Comic Book Day is that it always hits close to the release of some big comic book movie. Previous Free Comic Book Days have hit close to the release of movies like Captain America Civil War, Amazing Spider-Man 2 and the original Avengers. This time it hit just in time for Avengers Infinity War so naturally we'll have an Avengers comic book to tie in to that success.
The story begins with the Black Panther being summoned to Old Asgard by Odin himself. T'Challa has never met Odin before, but the Allfather has met several generations of Black Panthers. He explained how Mangog attacked several Asgardians but what it coming is even worse. Millions of years ago, Odin alongside the Black Panther of that era and other powerful beings killed a Celestial that went mad. While they had won, Odin feared someone even worse would eventually return for vengeance.
The Celestial was buried beneath Africa and T'Challa wants to deal with this. Odin tells him it's too late. The other day Loki came to visit him and reveals that he has revived the fallen Celestial.
Odin asks Black Panther to kill his son, something he could never bring himself to do. Black Panther will do what he must to save the world, even if it involves killing Loki to do it, but he tells him that the King of Wakanda is not a hired assassin. Odin tells him that he won't be able to save the world, and they won't be able to stop The Final Host, no matter who he recruits to help. T'Challa leaves saying that they will see.
Later in Manhattan, Steve Rogers and Thor ponder wether they should call Tony, since he recently recovered from the coma he fell under in the aftermath of Civil War 2. They decide to call him and tell him they need help.
Later on, we see Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Ghost Rider, She-Hulk, Dr. Strange and Captain Marvel ready to face what is about to come.
Captain America
The rest of the comic is a monologue by a female scientist as she discusses how Captain America back during World World 2 was good because America was good. He was right because America was right. But she wonder if this holds true with how divided the country is nowadays. Her plan involves creating lots of Super Soldier clones, basically strong guys with the American flag tattooed on their face as they head out to try to take down Captain America. She wants to prove that they are right not because they're good but because they are strong.
My Opinions
Such an interesting set up. It also seems that Iron Man is back in action, Thor has become worthy again and Captain America stopped being a member of HYDRA. It also looks like Ghost Rider got himself a new costume. Good art, and I also like the fact that like many times before, and even the movies, Loki causes some sort of trouble that gets all the heroes to unite to stop him. I hope to pick this one up too.
The Captain America story was weird though. I don't know if it's also part of an actual comic... but it really look like a long trailer for whatever is to come in Cap's own book.
I do find it interesting that even with decades of comic book lore, T'Challa has never met Odin until now though.
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