New Avengers: Illuminati | Brian Michael Bendis, Brian Reed

New Avengers: Illuminati | Brian Michael Bendis, Brian Reed | A tremendous series

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New Avengers: Illu...

	New Avengers: Illuminati Brian Michael Bendis, Brian Reed Marvel Comics, 2008 - 128 pages average customer review:based on 13 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Illuminati is a secret organization comprised of several of the world's most powerful heroes: Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme; Black Bolt, king of the Inhumans, Charles Xavier, founder of the X-Men and mutant-rights activist; Reed Richards, founding member of the Fantastic Four; Namor the Sub-Mariner, king of Atlantis; and Iron Man Tony Stark, founding member of the Avengers. These six men have worked together to mold and shape the status of the superhuman world and the world around it. How and what they have done together has remained a mystery...until now! Writers Brian Michael Bendis (Avengers, Ultimate Spider-Man) and Brian Reed (Ms. Marvel) have joined together with Jim Cheung (Young Avengers) to reveal this untold story of the Marvel Universe and how the Illuminati's actions affect today! Collects New Avengers: Illuminati #1-5.

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behind the scene story

this book is the behind the scene story of everything that happen before civil war going into secret invasion this is the beginning of it it is real good

A tremendous series

I was surprised to see the mixed reviews here at Amazon to this series and it was the sole reason I waited so long to read it. In fact, I only purchased it because I wanted to be a completest with my New Avengers collection.

To my surprise the series was fantastic. Basically six major heroes in the Marvel Universe work together secretly to end major crisis's before they begin.

First the group strikes a powerful blow to a ship of would-be Skrull conquerors. This may have been the event that set the whole secret invasion off.

Next they round up the Infinity Gauntlet and all the Infinity Gems to prevent them from being used again.

Then they locate the Beyonder and finally revel who or what he really is. I really enjoyed this issue as it tied up a lot of long hanging loose ends with the Secret Wars and Beyonder stories.

Finally, there is more Skrull story which preludes to the secret invasion.

A very good story and if Blackbolt seems out of place with this group it is adequately explained in the Beyonder issue.

I would be in favor of future Illuminati adventures.

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History Shmistory

Bendis has some fun here filling in some cracks in the marvel past. It's a great idea and very well executed. It's composed of several mini stories all kind of tied together by the Secret Invasion official hood of conspiracy. If your interested in the larger event it's a must read. It also is great as a stand alone book.

Review of New Avengers: Illuminati

New Avengers Illuminati is written by Brian Bendis with art by Jimmy Cheung. It is a five issue mini-series that elaborates on who the Illuminati are and what their role was regarding the Skrull Empire and a few other notable Marvel characters (and items).

This is necessary reading for those who are currently reading the Secret Invasion storyline since it elaborates on "the deal" an imprisoned Marvel Boy struck with the Illuminati who now seems to be a big player in Secret Invasion. The reader also learns how the Illuminati may have started the current human-skrull conflict and that there is a traitor in the Illuminati's ranks that is revealed at the end.

This isn't the best Bendis story but it satisfies for those, like me, who wanted a bigger glimpse inside the adventures of the Illuminati. I don't like retcons but in this mini-series it seems to work. Cheung's artwork is excellent.

For those who want to read Bendis at his best, I recommend his entire Daredevil tenure as well as Ultimate Spider-Man which Bendis continues to write for.

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