World Famous Comics: The Avengers and the Thunderbolts
The Avengers and the Thunderbolts
By: Pierce Askegren Publisher: Berkley Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Berkley Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 259 Publication Date: January 01, 1999
Product Description: One of the Avengers' greatest foes, Baron Zemo, formed the Thunderbolts as a team of ostensible heroes who were truly super-villains in disguise. When the team's true motives were exposed, some of the Thunderbolts remained together to try to make it as heroes. Now Zemo has a new plot that teams him with the hordes of Hydra--and the Avengers and the Thunderbolts must put aside their differences and work together to stop the greater threat of Zemo!.
A nice, if anticlimactic, team-up (mild spoilers) A fairly good novel by Askegren, with the two superteams joining forces amid mutual distrust to fight Barons Zemo and Strucker.
Unfortunately, the end goes out with a whimper rather than a bang; that this managed to happen even during a fight in Hydra's secret headquarters is a bit of a surprise.
Great Comic reading in paperback This book did a fabulous job of transferring what we see in the comics we buy each week into words only and getting it just right. I was very pleased with the author's handling of the character of Thor in particular, as he is my personal favorite, but all the characters were well handled and well written. The story was excellent overall. Marvel, give us more of THIS!!!!
Best comic book team in a book? Yes this book has it all, Action great writing super heroes like captain america thunderbolts and others. If you like the comics of either of these two teams then you have to get this book no Q's about it as this is just like a well wrote comic book but i think it will even get non comic fans to read it. To finish i just have to say that this is a must for any fan of the avengers!
The best marvel novel there was This book was action packed. This the best team up since the Time Arrow Trilogy, with the X-Men and Spider Man. A must have for all Marvel readers.
Poorly written story Like the Time's Arrow Trilogy, this book also suffers from being too much like a comic in novel form. Too much action and not enough character development. The Thunderbolts is a poorly written comic and the characters there have little need to be used in the novels. Pierce Askegren is a good writer but even he couldn't make this story go in any creative or interesting direction.
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