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Avengers: Mythos Kindle & comiXology

by Paul Jenkins (Author), Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Author), Adam Glass (Author), Format: Kindle Edition

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Collects Mythos: Hulk and Captain America; and Avengers Origins: Ant-Man & The Wasp, Luke Cage, Quicksilver & The Scarlet Witch, Vision and Thor. Avengers origins, updated and reimagined! It's a fully painted retelling of the earliest days of the gamma-powered Hulk! Witness Steve Rogers' transformation from a weakling with a heart of steel into Captain America! Revisit the unlikely courtship of the astonishing Ant-Man and the winsome Wasp! Can a lifetime of good deeds make up for Luke Cage's years spent on the other side of the law? See Pietro and Wanda Maximoff grow from children on the run to Earth's Mightiest Heroes! Tasked with destroying the Avengers, the android Vision must defy his creator. And finally, join Thor for a timeless family drama played out against a cosmic backdrop.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00AAJQWQM
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Marvel (April 4, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 4, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 678083 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 207 pages

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Sean McKeever
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For more than two decades, award-winning writer Sean Kelley McKeever has been entertaining fans of comics, games & animation with his distinct brand of stories that blend wonderment with drama and human insight.
Best known for character-driven material such as SPIDER-MAN LOVES MARY JANE, INHUMANS, SENTINEL and THE WAITING PLACE—all of which helped him to win an Eisner Award—Sean has also written THE INCREDIBLE HULK, MYSTIQUE, TEEN TITANS, AVENGERS: KREE-SKRULL WAR, X-MEN ORIGINS and worked on the historic STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC online RPG, among many other comics and games.
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Kyle Higgins
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Kyle Higgins is a #1 New York Times Best Selling writer whose past work includes NIGHTWING, BATMAN ETERNAL, GATES OF GOTHAM, BATMAN BEYOND 2.0, and DEATHSTROKE. After spending two years at the University of Iowa, Kyle transferred to Chapman University where he co-wrote and directed a superhero noir titled THE LEAGUE, about the 1960's superhero labor union of Chicago. In addition to opening doors at Marvel Comics, the film served as a creative launch point for Kyle's 2014 Image Comics series, C.O.W.L..
At present, Kyle is working on several titles including HADRIAN'S WALL at Image, NIGHTWING: THE NEW ORDER at DC, MAGNUS at Dynamite, and MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS at Boom.
You can follow him on Twitter and Instagram at @KyleDHiggins
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Paul Jenkins
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Paul Jenkins (born 6 December 1965) is a British comic book writer. He has had much success crossing over into the American comic book market. Primarily working for Marvel Comics, he has had a big part shaping the characters of the company over the past twenty years. He is also noted for his groundbreaking narrative work in the field of video games.
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J McNee

More Avengers

Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2021

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Somewhat oversold (& overpriced) collection of high end comicbooks into a single volume.

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2015

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I like the painting illustrations. Enjoyed the lesser known origins. Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. Ant-Man and Wasp. The Vision is relevant, with the release of The Age of Ultron movie in 2015. Luke Cage was edgy. I skipped reading The Hulk and Thor stories.

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mCee

Dissappointed that this was not all drawn by P. ...

Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2015

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Dissappointed that this was not all drawn by P. Rivera. The stories were engaging but the book doesn't even come close to the original "Mythos".

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Misleading title but still worth a try

Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2018

So right off the bat this doesn't collect all of Paul Jenkins and Paolo Rivera's Mythos one-shots, despite what the name would have you believe. That collection is here https://www.amazon.com/dp/0785115978/?coliid=I3N6HJPMOBD534&colid=QGBGEV980TSS&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

This contains Mythos Hulk #1 and Cap #1, then it goes to completely different one-shots from varying creators in the Avengers Origins series, including Ant-Man & The Wasp, Luke Cage, Vision, and Thor.

And while I was incredibly frustrated to learn this, I really enjoyed some of the latter issues even more than the Jenkins ones, and wouldn't have tried them otherwise, so it worked out.

Hulk was a bit better than I expected for such a retold story. Rivera channels Kirby for the Frankenstein-y Hulk look with the square head and hunch.

Captain America was written by Jenkins, who always manages to write the character as mixed between stories of any soldier during war, and Americana. This was enjoyable but a very standard streamlined story.

Ant-Man & The Wasp was a 5/5 without question for me. I don't know their backstories so I can't say how much of this is new, but the story about their first meeting, Hank's discoveries with insects, and how they become a team was great. There were some parts that the movie took directly from this. And the art is by Stephanie Hans who always kills it.

Luke Cage similarly blew me away. Maybe not 5/5 but it made me interested in that take of the character - which wasn't a reimagining or anything, but made his evolution of character seamless. And again it seemed like certain scenes were directly adapted from this in the Netflix show.

Scarlet With & Quicksilver focused more on their lives before Magneto and the Avengers when they were traveling gypsies, and like the above 2 I'm not super familiar with their history so it was nice. In fairness it's more of a Quicksilver story, maybe 60-40 in his favor, but I still came away liking both of them more.

The Vision one-shot details his creation, education, and training by Ultron, followed by his first assault against the Avengers. The story wasn't bad but I think the art is what really elevates it; the mix of the character's colorful look mixed with dark, atmospheric backgrounds complement each other perfectly.

And lastly there's Thor. This focuses more on his time as a child and teen with Loki and Sif (rather than anything relating to Earth) and how the promise of one day being "worthy" of Mjolnir became an obsession and weight that fueled his arrogance after finally being able to wield it. It was ok. I'm usually not a fan of Kathryn Immonen's writing but this is average at the least.

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DeadPoet

OK Avengers origins

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 16, 2014

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This collection is composed of seven Avengers Origins one-shots, each by a different creative team.
The main throughline is that each of the seven stories deals with the origin story of an Avenger, from founders like Thor and Ant-Man
to newcomer Luke Cage.

Mythos: Captain America
By Paul Jenkins and Paolo Rivera
I love cap, and I've read countless versions of his origin story, even seen a couple in moving pictures, and this one, with its focus
and main innovations Jenkins adds are to spend a considerable amount of time on Cap's incredibly depressing childhood
(they didn't call it The Depression for nothing!) and on his interaction with the other veterans at the dinner. Not very impressive.
Rivera artwork, is in a painted style that tended to lack the virtues and vitality of his drawn work.
2.5 Stars

Mythos: Hulk
By Paul Jenkins and Paolo Rivera
Booooorrrrrrring. The Hulk version was very minimalist, almost to the point of why bother?
Jenkins focusing on a single incident of the Hulk's life, his birth in the Gamma Bomb test, and what went on just before and just after.
Not enough to satisfy an origin story. Rivera painted style artwork takes a detor to awful drawings and layouts.
2. star

Avengers Origins: Ant-Man and The Wasp
By Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Stephanie Hans
The interesting storys to me were the Ant-Man & Wasp Origins tale. These chapters were good because they involved takes on the
characters/origins that were a new twist on what we've seen before. Aguirre-Sacasa's script has some lighter, funnier moments to it.
Hans' realistic, painterly work; it matches that done by Rivera on his best.
3.5 stars

Avengers Origins: Vision
By Kyle Higgins & Alec Siegel and Stephane Perger
Kyle Higgins story is basically an all-fight action story for the introduction of The Vision. Only laks a deeper characterization.
Perger's art was pretty nice, maintaining the painted look, and while the backgrounds disappear almost constantly, much of the
issue is set outside at night in the rainstorm, and or there are bright flashes of light, so that The Vision's sports-team color
scheme is muted and, on the whole, he looks much more dramatic than usual.
3. stars

Avengers Origins: Luke Cage
By Adam Glass & Mike Benson and Dalibor Talajic
Glass and Benson's script follows Jenkins' Captain America script rather closely in form, telling Cage's origin story from prison
to experiment, to escape, to flirtation with crime, to Hero for Hire, ending in the modern day. Luke Cage's story stood out for me.
Talajic's art is perhaps the best in the book. It's certainly the most straightforward in terms of comic bookishness,
and he does a pretty good job of updating the time period during the story (It seems like this Cage grew up in the '80s,
rather than the '60s).
3.5 stars

Avengers Origins: Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver
By Sean McKeever and Mirco Pierfederici
McKeever tells their story from childhood until their debut as Avengers, with the bulk of attention spent on their relationship
with Magneto. The story adds a pretty straightforward, simplicity to their powers and origins.
The artwork in this story is particularly comic-book-y, but perhaps in a more generic, less stylized way.
3. stars

Avengers Origins: Thor
By Kathryn Immonen, Al Barrionuevo and Michel Lacombe & Mark Pennington
Immonen wisely starts and more-or-less completes her story before the story of the Marvel Thor really begins, with his time on Earth.
Barrionuevo's pencils are fine, but are nothing remarkable, and his Asgard seems more like a Xena, Warrior Princess set than
the sort of sci-fi fantasy realm of Kirby's creation.
3. stars

Overall,
Like all one-shot collections, it was a mixed bag. An ensemble of writers have contributed; so, as expected, the quality is a bit uneven.
All in all, it's a decent enough intro to eight Marvel superheroes. None of the stories stand out as being particularly great ones.
The book is decent as there are some high points, but there are some low points as well.

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