Avengers West Coast Epic Collection Vol. 4: Vision Quest
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- Author：Steve Englehart
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Summary
John Byrne transforms the West Coast Avengers！ But fi rst， the team must survive showdowns with the Defi ler and the Night Shift - and Mockingbird is haunted by the terrible specter of the Phantom Rider！ Then， Byrne takes charge - and the legendary writer/artist immediately leaves his mark on the Whackos with a startling transformation for the Vision！ As the team grapples with what's happened to their old friend， Vision's wife the Scarlet Witch descends into darkness - and learns shocking revelations about her children！ Amid the chaos， the U。 S。 Agent muscles his way onto the roster， the bizarre Great Lakes Avengers assemble， and a Golden Age legend blazes his way back from the grave！ COLLECTING: VOL。 4: WEST COAST AVENGERS （1985） 38-46， AVENGERS WEST COAST （1989） 47-52， WEST COAST AVENGERS ANNUAL （1986） 3， AVENGERS WEST COAST ANNUAL （1989） 4， MATERIAL FROM AVENGERS SPOTLIGHT （1989） 23
Reviews
Zack！ Empire
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Really glad to finally be reading the Byrne era of the West Coast Avengers。 He really has me wanting to keep reading these comics。 A lot of the time， I'll read about 200 pages of one of these books， then have to take a break from it for a while。 With this one， I just read it and read it。 It was so fun。 I loved the way the characters interacted。 There is a ton going on here， and I can't wait to see what happens。 Really， the only things I didn't care for were the crossover issue's。 Really glad to finally be reading the Byrne era of the West Coast Avengers。 He really has me wanting to keep reading these comics。 A lot of the time， I'll read about 200 pages of one of these books， then have to take a break from it for a while。 With this one， I just read it and read it。 It was so fun。 I loved the way the characters interacted。 There is a ton going on here， and I can't wait to see what happens。 Really， the only things I didn't care for were the crossover issue's。 。。。more
Rick
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I kind of hate giving this collection only 3-stars， but I can’t really rationalize more than that。 Why？ Roughly the first third of the volume is 。。。 well， terrible。 It opens with a chapter from a big crossover event， The Evolutionary War， that is left unresolved as it only features the chapter that the West Coast Avengers appear in。 Next up we have four issues that are really just trying to fill time and wrap-up some loose storylines from the material included in the preceding 3 volumes。 These r I kind of hate giving this collection only 3-stars， but I can’t really rationalize more than that。 Why？ Roughly the first third of the volume is 。。。 well， terrible。 It opens with a chapter from a big crossover event， The Evolutionary War， that is left unresolved as it only features the chapter that the West Coast Avengers appear in。 Next up we have four issues that are really just trying to fill time and wrap-up some loose storylines from the material included in the preceding 3 volumes。 These range of silly， to disappoint， to strange， to downright awful。 The。 John Byrne comes aboard and everything changes。 Everything。 Starting with the Avengers Roster， but Byrne’s shake up is far from ending there。 Over the next nearly 300 pages Byrne proceeds to dismantle， first， the Vision （both figuratively AND literally） and then he does the same to the Scarlet Witch （although for her it’s really more figuratively and less literally）。 Then the volume ends with yet another chapter from a larger crossover， see Atlantis Attacks Omnibus。 Which， also， doesn’t end with anything like a resolution。 Instead it ends on a cliffhanger。 So， more frustration。 What does work， and I’d give it a solid 4-stars on its own， is the Avengers West Coast: Vision Quest arc。 While there is a lot of frustrating retroactive continuity， the story itself is pure Byrne。 This means it’s fun， rather light-hearted and packed with just about unrelenting action。 Read this for the Byrne issues， the Vision Quest story， which also leads right into Avengers West Coast: Darker than Scarlet。 。。。more
Fez Vaccaro
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The first 150 pages of this collection are the weakest as we get things tidied up before Byrne begins his run at #142。 There's an Evolutionary War Annual to start。 This is followed by as through away a fill-in issue as you'll get by DG Chichester。 Englehart returns to tidy up some Mantis and Cotati continuity and his never-ending Celestial Madonna storyline， before Gruenwald does his best to clean up the Phantom Rider story that has really gone on too long by this stage - and hurt both Mockingbi The first 150 pages of this collection are the weakest as we get things tidied up before Byrne begins his run at #142。 There's an Evolutionary War Annual to start。 This is followed by as through away a fill-in issue as you'll get by DG Chichester。 Englehart returns to tidy up some Mantis and Cotati continuity and his never-ending Celestial Madonna storyline， before Gruenwald does his best to clean up the Phantom Rider story that has really gone on too long by this stage - and hurt both Mockingbird and Hawkeye in the process。Then it's onto Byrne。 Art is great obviously， the best the book has had to date。 As far as the story goes， the story feels darker from the get go， which is different in tone from the light-hearted feel of Englehart's run。 We have a Tigra that's devolving into a cat and it feels decidedly more feral and dangerous than previously。 There's shady government operatives who have kidnapped and disassembled the Vision。 Byrne puts Wanda through the wringer， turning her husband as colourless as his emotional state， before having her also kidnapped and controlled by more Government operatives。 But these aren't anything compared to what he has in mind for her children。 The villain Mister Pandemonium was rather hokey under Englehart but is actually kind of terrifying here。 The collection ends with another Annual crossover， this time Atlantis Attacks。 There's a good interview with Byrne in the extras， as it helps explain Byrne's reasoning for taking the directions he did。As for his choices， you can argue he has done long-term damage to Vision and Wanda。 Bendis obviously took the deranged Scarlet Witch from here and ran with in possibly the worst Avengers story I've ever read in Avengers: Disassembled。 We'll see if the WandaVision show can in some way bring these different and shocking story elements to make it a cohesive whole for the MCU， but as far as comics go， it destroyed a stable relationship that's really never recovered and has led to a Vision that didn't get fixed until his miniseries in 1994。 As far was Wanda goes， Busiek did good work in Heroes Return to fix her character but Bendis obviously swept that all away at the start of Disassembled in Avengers #500。 Byrne also messes up Vision's continuity as to his android body and again it isn't fixed until Busiek's clean up story that was Avengers Forever。So look， I have mixed feelings here。 Byrne's strongest part was the introduction of the Great Lakes Avengers。 There's a good balance of humour here and some good characterisation of both Hawkeye and Mockingbird。 。。。more
Martin Maenza
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