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Title changes do practically nothing for me personally, bad or good, unless they come with creative changes-or unless the brand new title is simply plain heinous. Dark Avengers may strike you Watch The Avengers Online  as no less silly than Justice League Dark, but it’s forget about silly either (and also, it’s a great deal less). And since we've the very same creative team as once the series was still being Thunderbolts, exactly what do I care when they change their name to Dark Avengers or even the Kinda Evil, Kinda Not Squad?

Watch The Avengers Online Yes, that last one is really a joke, however it does arrive at the essence from the team, no? Only originally, it known the overall, moral character from the members. With the exception of Luke Cage, Songbird, and Mach-V (the fully reformed), all of those other T-bolts all have a funky mix of criminal tendencies and heroic aspirations. This issue introduces a brand new group of ‘Bolts-and they're still called as such, so you have to question the point of renaming it at all-and it turns out many of them are simply plain villains.

Frankly, my first instinct would be to roll my eyes at evil doppelganger plotlines. Inevitably, all of them devolve into showdowns between your respective lookalikes, and also the originals almost invariably win. The doppelgangers here already had that beatdown, therefore we can set that tired formula away. But that doesn’t alter the inherent goofiness of seeing these obviously disturbed individuals attempting halfassedly to resemble their heroic counterparts, simply to reveal themselves as clearly weak-sauce versions. I am talking about, you can’t imagine Luke having the ability to undertake the actual Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, and Thor simultaneously, right?

Not being the largest Marvel buff on the planet, I'd little knowledge of any of the newbloods (with the exception of Ragnarok, the Thor robot from Civil War), but you can glean enough from the story-and a healthy dose of Wikipedia-to guess where Luke’s rage comes from at seeing them. And so far, they newbies are just a little too fresh and unremarkable to care too much about them. It doesn’t help that the bulk of their dialogue is oddly lame (making you wonder if Paul Levitz was ghostwriter on this issue): “This is what we could have done to you if Osborne let us cut loose.” “Yes! Osborn held us back! We could have triumphed!” “We aren’t just ‘Dark’ Avengers. We are a force…of devast-” Just to let you know, Ai Apaec gets cut off on that last corny line when Luke thankfully bashes him in the face. With a boulder. Bliss.

Considering these rookies have already gotten beaten down once by the Avengers, and nearly lose again to just Luke, Songbird, and Mach-V, you can only see F.A.C.T.’s choice of new members as horribly flawed when they want a team to take on “the most powerful opposition.” Not to mention these folks are even less trustworthy and reliable than the old gang, forcing F.A.C.T. to use a Suicide Squad-esque shutdown mechanism as a control measure. I can’t imagine this particular roster will be long for the world, especially once the time-traveling ‘Bolts return.

With each story arc, I get a little more impressed with how Shalvey’s agile lines can adapt to pretty much any genre and look credible. So far, he’s done a thoroughly fantastical fantasy arc, plenty of sci-fi ridiculousness, and now he dips his hand into thriller and pulls it off very well. Without exaggerating body language or facial expression, he conveys a clear sense of intrigue and suspicion simply through setting: shadowed conversations in dark, tight, enclosed spaces.

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