I'm on a quest to wrap up my Avengers run. i'm missing the first few of the original series and some of the Bendis issues from the earlier part of this decade.
Found a slew of these for $.50 each so snagged them.
I really want to cure but instead I will follow the way they do things on a show I recently discovered, but fork AvX and fork Bendis and fork all of this shirt.
In this book, the characters are gearing up to fight the Phoenix Force (ugh) and have Cap tell everyone it is a suicide mission and Captain Marvel (Junior) goes off to say goodbye to his high school aged girlfriend (ugh) and its this build up and the stakes are high and the tension is building and you turn the page.........
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......only to be told that the battle these characters LOSE can be found in three issues of another mother-forking book! What the heck?!?!?!?!?!??!?!
I understand this is ALL about money....getting us to buy issues we wouldn't otherwise but I am so glad that I didn't buy this in real time. Bendis's stories, but especially his mini-series, never have any lasting consequences and he seems to just peter out (Secret Invasion; Secret Wars (the tech one); Civil War; House of M) so I am betting AvX woulda pissed me off royally.
I try to think it was only half-a-buck, but the time spent reading this is something I will never get back.
Forkity-fork-fork!