Avengers Disassembled Part 1

[informationgeek]

Avengers: Disassembled is controversial, even years after it was originally published. Truth be told, it probably will remain divisive for years to come. Still, I think it represents a turning point for the franchise, and it’s a bold ambitious and daring piece of work. Any comic that celebrates its five hundredth issue by mercilessly deconstructing its central team deserves a large amount of respect. Bendis’ work on Avengers might have its share of detractors, and I’m hard-pressed to argue it’s his best work, but I still think it’s a very challenging and breathtaking attempt to help rework a franchise that struggled to find its footing.” - Darren

Story By: Brian Michael Bendis
Art By: David Finch

Like with Civil War, we'll just be looking at random scenes from each issue.



And so it all begins with Avengers #500.





BBBBOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM! Both ded.








Then Vision shows up at the Mansion and blows s**t up with a quinjet.




He then pukes out Ultron metal balls and Ultron things attack!












And She-Hulk smashes Steve with a truck. We then wrap with this...




Brian Michael Bendis doesn't like She-Hulk, does he?

Comments

[scorntx]

I...
I'd say Ultimatum is probably worse.
It scuppered the Ultimate universe, pointlessly killed several characters, had a nonsensical "reveal" that didn't make a damn lick of sense, meaningless side-plots and moments that just didn't go anywhere...
And Disassembled did all that too, while performing the equivalent of tossing a bomb into the face of several characters, but..
For one, it's more self-contained. Two, no-one eats Wasp's suddenly and inexplicably Caucasian corpse. And three, it's shorter.

Though it's not really a competition. They're both awful anyway.
Just different categories of awful.

[mastermahan]

Ultimatum is definitely worse. Bendis and the other powers that be actually had something of a plan for where to go after breaking things, for one, nor did Disassembled have such an absurdly high death count.

I can see why they thought Ultimatum would work, though.