Type of Series: Super-Hero; Action-Adventure;

    Similar Comics: Fantastic Four; West Coast Avengers

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    Plotting: Straight-forward enough. An old friend of the team shows up (battered and bruised) and tells them where the Bad Guy is. They head off and meet the Bad Guy. Cue: cliff-hanger.

    Logic: Nothing wrong with any of that.

    Originality: Big Zero for originality, though.

    Ending: Pretty much by-the-book. Out in deep space, the ship containing our heroes blows up. We know they'll be fine next issue. Yawn!

    Re-Readability: A good enjoyable Avengers comic is always re-readable and this is no exception. You have a good likeable team, an excursion off into outer space and a battle with some non-humanoids ("Brain Leeches" the cover calls 'em!). Plus this issue has the air of a start-up all over it. This is a brand new team, just finding their feet. The issue starts off with the relocation of Avengers Island, the introduction of a Head Of Security and the usual doubts expressed when new teams form for the first time (Captain America wonders if Reed Richards is comfortable not being in command any more, that kind of thing.). All of these things combine to make exactly the sort of comic you're going to want to pull out and re-read from time to time.

    Impressive Characters: Starfox, probably. I like him a lot. I have great fondness for the team that existed circa Secret Wars II, and Starfox was right there during those times. His appearance here is but a cameo, but his presence is impressive. He arrives, badly battered, to warn the team that Earth is in peril.

    Impressive Writers: Ralph Macchio is credited as "scripter" while the great Mark Gruenwald is down for "plot". Gruenwald is also the Editor.

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    Less-Than-Impressive Characters:

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    Continuity: Other than the fact that this is evidently a new team, nothing is mentioned that hints back to the events leading up to issue #300. As you'd expect when Starfox pops up, we are reminded that his last appearance was in #261.

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    Miscellaneous Comments:    July 26^th, 1999

    I'm thinking of getting a bunch of Avengers comics from those wonderful people at The Comics Warehouse, so I thought I'd dig out an Avengers comic and read it. I never make the time to read comics these days and when I told my friend Stephen about my impending order he laughed and said "When will you read them?" But that's not the point, is it? The point is: I will read them. Sometime. So I might as well get them.

GRADE: B

Review by Michael Leddy

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