Given the amount of time I have devoted to Jonathan Hickman’s work over the last couple of years, I decided that a summary page may be helpful for fellow devotees. And also for those interested in some guidance in the pursuit of his work. Here are the posts Ive have written over the years!
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New Avengers #1 Review – De-illuminating the IlluminatiThis is where it all began. The opener to a story about dying universes and heroes trying to decide the futures of worlds.
https://houseofflyingscalpels.com/2013/01/11/new-avengers-1-de-illuminating-the-illuminati/
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Infinity Preview – Explaining Jonathan HickmanThis post covered all issues of Avengers and New Avengers up to Infinity. It discusses the themes, characters and events of Hickman’s work and potential story outcomes.
https://houseofflyingscalpels.com/2013/09/08/infinity-explaining-jonathan-hickman/
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Infinity Review – In the Throes of WarThis covered all Infinity issues up to the last ones of the story. It was a preview to the final ones and a reference to the planning that has been done since both Avengers books started.
https://houseofflyingscalpels.com/2013/10/21/infinity-so-far-the-throes-of-war/
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New Avengers #23 Review – Complacency amidst the greatest of mindsThis was an absolutely iconic issue where it finished the second arc and enters the eight month later act. This was the issue where the Illuminati fail and Namor takes his turn.
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Eight Months Later Review -Avengers.WhatNow? Postulating Jonathan HickmanThis post summarised the whole of the second act of Avengers and New Avengers post Infinity. This includes the AIM adaptoid/alternate Avenger story which was really all about Bruce joining the Illuminati and the Cap time jumping issues. With regards to New Avengers it covers the incursions, the Great Society, Mapmakers, Black Priests and the Ivory King(s).
https://houseofflyingscalpels.com/2014/12/18/avengers-whatnow-postulating-jonathan-hickman/
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