Scott's Take: Avengers Mech Strike by Jed MacKay

 

Avengers Mech Strike by Jed MacKay is a self contained stand alone Avengers title that is supposed to sell the toys aka the mech suits the characters use. In this tale, the Avengers are fighting giant monsters that are attacking the whole world. Each attack is becoming more frequent. To combat the threat, the Avengers build giant mech suits to pilot. So, such as the movie Pacific Rim, superheroes will be piloting big robots vs giant monsters.

This is well written as one would expect from Jed MacKay and he does a great job of exploring each member of the team. This book is surprisingly deep for something designed to provide the background for the toy line. For one example, Spider-Man deals with having to face his insecurities as being part of the Avengers since he is not one of their most powerful members.  The art is really good in this tale.

The reader gets the feeling that this book is the reason that Jed MacKay is now in charge of the current main Avenger book. Several of the characters in this book have journeyed on to the current Avengers read that has yet to be put out in trade format.  This is a good book to hold one over while the first trade is still being collected.

 

 

My reading copy came from the Vickery Park Branch of the Dallas Public Library System.

 

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