We come to the end of the compilation of the collection of Impossible Avengers after thirty issues of the third volume, and several specials, which are added to everything previously published. Panini Comics closes the cycle with a hardcover volume that includes the sequels of Secret Empire.
Too many events being stone guests
The principle of Impossible Avengers He offered us a fresh idea that was a logical consequence of the confrontation that Mutants and Avengers had had shortly before. The creation of a Unit Squadron by Captain America was not only an approach that would serve to strengthen ties with the members of The X-Patrol but also gave a new air to the Avengers concept to make it more inclusive if possible, signaling that, despite a conflict, those whose gifts lead them to exercise as superheroes always have common ground to fight together against superior threats, wear an X or an Avengers A sewn on the jacket.
Over time that concept was expanded to include the Inhumans or a member of the Fantastic Four and that left us tremendous stories, like all the weight of the adventure that had the Red Skull as an archenemy, being the possessor of the brain and telepathic abilities of the then late Professor Charles Francis Xavier. We live as a group of women and men facing an invincible scenario and surpassing it with flying colors. But that shine was lost as they had to face the consequences of one Marvel event after another, Civil War II, the Pleasant Hill disaster and finally the aftermath of Secret Empire.
The inclusion of Cable or Massacre were able to sustain the situation a bit until it became final. The editorial plans would lead the mutants down another path, we were barely a year and a half from the start of the Hickman era and Duggan and Larraz had already put an end to the main plot that had kept the series alive, seen in the previous volume.
Neither disappearance nor the enemy within
The Unity Squad had already disbanded previously, what we continue to see in these final episodes is a group that had gotten used to staying linked for different reasons, sometimes out of affection, others out of pure camaraderie. They are still assuming that the greatest of heroes, Captain America, has gone over to the side of Hydra and conquered the United States. They have not yet discovered the whole truth about it and are in a state of shock, surviving a major blow to their own waterline, thanks to his initiative they formed that incarnation of The Avengers.
But not even the inclusion of The Scarlet Witch, who has just starred in another of her dark steps on the side of the villains by being possessed by Chthon again, manages to feed back something more than that rancor that Rogue feels for her from the famous phrase that Wanda issued at the end of Dynasty of M: “No more mutants”, which almost meant the disappearance of the species, as a small number of them remained on the face of the Earth who maintained their powers, 198 to be exact. Hardly a catfight for two already charismatic women. With Anne Marie doubting her ability to lead while Janet Van Dyne, the former president of The Avengers during the classic stage of the eighties that was under the auspices of the revered Roger Stern, pushes her to it but at the same time dodges the responsibility.
The weight of reaching the end
The writer behind these latest episodes of Impossible Avengers is the solvent Jim Zub but he has to dance with the ugliest after picking up a witness that had previously passed through the hands of Rick Remender and Gerry Duggan. Zub plays with the few elements he has left and closes it in the best possible way. With a positive reading after so much he comes and goes. He even tries to revive old hits by including that episode where the Beast (Hank McCoy) and Wonder Man (Simon Williams) are up to their old tricks again.
The drawing of Impossible Avengers is carried out mainly by two notable authors, Kim Jacinto and Sean Izaakse. Very clean strokes for a denouement full of moments of action but that also gives way to other moments where carefreeness takes over the scene and leaves us with those most intimate moments of superheroes that we can’t always see.
It’s not that you’re going to love this tome, it’s more about completing the story if you’ve been following it. For finishing accompanying Pícara, the only protagonist who has remained from the first moment without leaving the formation. In this tour that has been very fun at many times and that when you finish turning the last page at least leaves you with a good taste in your mouth… and a nod to another story of The Avengers (look at the statue that can be seen in the background in the last scene).