Mighty Avengers #11

This was awesome. I loved the use of the thought balloons in this issue.

Doom is always good for a long winded monologue, he's famous for them. The reason he was thinking it instead of speaking it, as he explained, was because he felt no one present was worth hearing it. If Cap, Richards, Stark, or anyone else he respected was there, He would have proclaimed his genius for all to hear. Bendis’ use of the thought balloons in that segment especially, made this issue of Mighty Avengers a blast to read. Doom as a character has always been full of himself and sported a “holier then thou” attitude. That is why he is almost always depicted gloating about his superior intellect in a lengthy and detailed monologue. The fact that he still felt the need to pat himself on the back for his own brilliance, even though he felt his captives were so beneath him that they weren’t worthy enough to hear the genius of his methods, is a perfect characterization of Dr. Doom. He would have been way out of character to stay silent, or waist his breath on the heroes before him, because in his mind only Aries even came close to how truly awesome he knows himself to be.

I would think that the Sentry isn’t an easy character to write dialogue for. Bendis is a master of dialogue and still doesn’t seem to grasp him in a way that feels right to me. The fact that the big mental case kept his trap shut for the most part and just tore into Doom was great. Unlike most, I like the Sentry as a character and really enjoyed his first mini series. I think there is some good potential to be found in a mentally unstable powerhouse, just look at Superboy Prime, it just needs to be tapped in the right way.

MB’s art just blows my mind!