The title has been used for four American comic book series. The New Avengers is a fictional team of superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Leaving it in the collections though, which include both series, implies that there's a second time gap after the first chapter.Vol. Both it and Avengers #35 start with a caption page reading 'Eight months later', which makes sense in the issues where someone could theoretically only be picking up one of the two series. I do hope they 'fix' New Avengers #24 for the omnibus.

I never bothered with the Axis issues, but Before Time Runs Out was surprisingly decent - I wouldn't want them included them in the main story, but I wouldn't mind if they included them at the back of the second omnibus. The simultaneous threats was a nice idea, but dragging the story out for 14 issues was not. He maybe threw a few ideas Spencer's way, but no more than that. I'm not convinced Hickman actually wrote a word of it himself. It's definitely set after Avengers #24 for reasons I forget (it's been a while), but probably related to AIM's appearances in #25-27. It's definitely set before Avengers #24 because Wolverine's on the team. Much of it feels like stories Hickman would have told if he had even more space and time. A separate OHC is really the only solution because the main story simply doesn't fit in Hickman's run:

Usually a spinoff is weak but I rate the Avengers World material very high. It seems that most of them are just parts of someone's run blown up for marketing purposes, and that's not good enough reason for me to have them separate from the rest of those runs. I care little that it's an 'event' and understand the event Omnibi even less.

To me much more important for the potential Complete Collections would be a proper reading order (everybody can have their own, and if it's not mine, then I'd like one the writer prefers) and the inclusion of Secret Wars, because it's the conclusion of the story. If the reasons are 'it's the same team' or 'some character work happens here', then you might as well include DeConnick's Avengers Assemble in the first volume.Īvengers World #15-16 are Spencer's Axis tie-ins which are quite removed from the previous issues and also setting up his Ant-Man, and Before the Time Runs Out in #17-21 are by someone else whose name escapes me at the moment. Hickman did created Andrew Forson and wrote him a few times (with Spencer sometimes), but not really sure why Avengers World would be needed for Hickman Omnibus. I always saw Nick Spencer's Avengers World #1-14 as a sequel to Nick Spencer's Secret Avengers.

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