More Reviews from last week

Ok, i'm doing some quick reviews for the books I picked up last week and then i'll get to this week's round. Boom!!!

The second annual of The New Avengers, wraps up storylines from World War Hulk and Civil War with The Avengers taking on the Hood's gann once again, but with more consequences. As this annual comes to an end, one Avengers quits the team and another jumps sides to the Mighty Avengers. This is the second annual for the Avengers since the new year has began and once again Brian Micheal Bendis has crafted a very fun story and making everyone wonder who is and isn't a skrull. Jessica Jones defects to the Mighty Avenger and due the strain of using his magic powers during World War Hulk, Doctor Strange leaves the team to re-educate himself in the ways of being a sorcerer. Leaving the Hood to once again escape. The story just ties up some loose ends, nothing major, a fun story that won't blow you away as it builds up to the upcoming Skrull Invasion. My only problem with this book was the artwork.

Now, the artwork isn't too bad, as Carlo Pagulayan takes the reigns from Leinil Francis Yu, but the mood of the story is to be dark and a little serious as the paranoia of the Skrull threat rises and with the purple (yes seriously) backgrounds and shadowing used, it doesn't come across as such. In two pages worth of panels when the Hood breaks into Tigra's room and assaults her, I would have have sworn Prince was her interior decorator. The purple totally takes away from the situation on this page, because I didn't wonder if the Hood, along with every other villain he broke out of prison watching, was going to shoot Tigra point blank in the head. I just kept thinking, somebody just needs to lay off the purple stuff.

The New Avengers Annual #2

Writing-3 out of 5
Art-2.5 out of 5- I can't get past all the danm purple!!!
Overall- 3 out 5- Reveal some Skrulls already nobody cares about Skrulls who are second rate heroes!!!!