Birth Of The Avengers

The creation of the initial avengers team was surprisingly simple. As seen in "Avengers #1," loki is imprisoned on the island of silence, and he wants to get revenge on thor. So, does he create an army, or cause world havoc? Nope, he simple causes the hulk to destroy a train track, leading Rick Jones to believe that hulk is either innocent or a threat. So, jones sends a signal to the fantastic four, but loki diverts the signal so that thor, disgusted as Blake, hears it. That signal diversion also lead ant-man, wasp, and iron man to hear it, so they come to the rescue. Eventually thor goes to asgard to find out what's going on, and after a small battle with a troll, he takes loki back to earth. Meanwhile, ant-man, wasp, and iron man chase down hulk. Just before a big showdown, thor returns with his brother, and ant-man captures him in some chamber lined with lead. The team decides they could be useful together, and hence the avengers are born. No world threat, no absorbing man, just a simple plan from loki using the hulk as bait. I'm glad the movie seems to going in a much more epic route! Also, the dialogue here is quite tedious. Maybe in order to introduce new readers to the characters, the writers feel the need to have the characters speak out loud everything they're doing. For instance, Iron Man, on going to answer the distress call, talks about how he's going to use one form of rockets to save energy, and then change to get their faster. Each character needs to discuss how they're using their power before they use it. I'm glad comics have matured since that time!