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Avengers #207-208
Issue(s): Avengers #207, Avengers #208
Cover Date: May-Jun 81
Title: "Beyond a Shadow.." / "Eve of destruction!"
Credits:
Bob Budansky - Plot
Danny Fingeroth / Bob Budansky & Danny Fingeroth- Script
Gene Colan - Penciler
Dan Green - Inker
Review/plot:
Continuing the fill-in period between David Michelinie's sort-of run on the Avengers and Jim Shooter's return, here's a random story.
I guess the Avengers meet an ancient wizard or something?
And then it turns out he's only trying to stop an evil and unstoppable warrior called the Beserker.
The hook is that Wonder Man had been over-acting while on a stunt-actor assignment.
And at the end of this story he has to convincingly take his lumps from the Berserker while he waits for some magical doohickeys to do their trick.
Wonder Man is still fired from his job during this issue.
Whatever.
Gene Colan's art has been better.
Quality Rating: C-
Historical Significance Rating: 1
Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A
References: N/A
Crossover: N/A
Continuity Insert? N
My Reprint: N/A
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Comments
The title to #208 refers to the 1960's Barry McGuire song.
Agreed about the art, but I'm betting it had a lot to do with the winks.
The Beserker (a Roman not a viking?) is a real powerhouse. He defeats most of the Avengers himself. He even brings down a fighter jet with a spear!
Judging from the bad Italian dialogue and that Simon/Wondy is working on a Western, I assume the director is a lampoon of Sergio Leone (the DOLLARS trilogy with Clint Eastwood)? Also, I'm with fnord and Jay regarding Colan's art. It would have benefited from Tom Palmer or Klaus Janson's presence on finishes.
These scans epitomize everything I don't like about Gene Colan's art. Rushed through job after rushed through job, with many things way out of proportion, sometimes ridiculously so, and he never redraws anything, no matter how badly it needs redrawn. On the positive side, he's sometimes really good at some abstract visuals and dreamy environments, and he's probably really really fast! xD
