Series Review: The New Avengers, Volume 1
The New Avengers, Vol. 1, TPB #1 I started reading comics again about a year and a half ago, partly because I'd missed comics after having taken a break from them for a couple of years and partly because my kids had finally gotten old enough to read on their own, and I wanted to share with them the joy that I remembered from reading comics back when I was their age. The nice thing about having kids and reading comics with them is that they bring such a fresh perspective. As an adult comic fan, I'd gotten totally away from traditional superhero comics just because I felt like everything that the Big Two were doing, I'd already seen it and read it, and it just wasn't interesting anymore. I'd started reading Vertigo and a bunch of indies, looking for a more complex kind of comic storytelling that was more suited to my adult tastes. But a lot of that stuff is so self-referential or deconstructionist that it gets old fast. Having kids changes all of that, howeve