ABRAHAM LINCOLN STATUE SMASH BAD NAZI ROBOTS!!!!
This is in fact, not only the best fear itself itself tie-ins and the best and most awesome issue of this series!!! (screw the main team!! even if bendis is the one responsible for that)
The armies of the new red skull are invading Washington and to help on the defense, members of the secret avengers: beast, war machine (aka iron man 2.0) and ant-man are sent to support as we see a great battle that seems hopeless as it goes, three heroes as awesome as they are can't alone defeat these enemies. Even on the middle of this, Beast is called to rescue a person from the house of representatives who is an old friend of his who in fact a mutant, who managed to get through all the crazy stuff that has happened to them in recent years (that is kinda cool in his own right). He is a very likable character and a very devoted one to his goals as he stays in the capitol because he wants to pass an act that will help people working on mines, which took eight years to reach the house of representatives!!! (hurts me knowing that acts that might help the common man are mostly rejected even before they make it through that far) so he stays as he tells his old friend hank that even if he is a member of congress he preferred to be a history teacher (reminding me of my own history teacher from college for some reason since he is pretty devoted and you can see he loves teaching but enough of that, i must explain why the tittle of this review has such a name as soon as possible!!) and of course, when hank tells him that they need to leave since things are getting pretty bad (war machine and ant-man are overrun by nazi mechas). This man simply smiles and uses his mutant powers to summon the all mighty Abraham Lincoln statue to kick some robotic ass!!!!! this is in fact, the most crazy and AWESOME! scene I've seen in any avenger book! as many of the statues of the Smithsonian museum rise up to face the enemy including soldiers of all eras! dinosaurs! warriors! planes and all that good stuff! are leaded by of course GEORGE WASHINGTON!!! what the hell!! this is so awesome i couldn't believe what i was seeing!!!
after watching that great delicious slice of awesomeness we get to see probably one of the saddest scenes in this series.....the good man tells beast to use the cameras in the building to pass a message to everyone watching tv who as expected, knows that they are only watching the battles in panic. Knowing full well what will happen to him, this man who has reached a level of likeness and respect from me (and of course a divine level of win) gives a speech he was always told by his own mother when he was little that helped him during the times where african americans were persecuted in such a horrendous degree he still managed to live without fear. It's the Gettysburg Address made by Abraham Lincoln. As he gives one of the most important speeches in the history of our nation, we get to see an effective cinematic way how our heroes battle alongside normal man and women at the cost of their lives against a terrifying threat as everyday people can do nothing but watch with their families in fear what seems to be the end of the world as the statue of abraham lincoln sits back where it belongs. At the last final words of his speech, the signal is lost, as beast sadly congratulates his friend as he watches the united states capitol in flames, revealing to us that the representative only known to us as lenny has died while inspiring hope even in this great crisis.....
At the end, even at the sight of fear spread by a evil god and things seem hopeless for everyone, it is shown that even non heroes aren't afraid of the serpent or his armies, this issue got me almost crying at the death of this character I've never heard of and at first thought i wasn't going to care.....but this issue is mostly a beast story in a tie-in yet perfect. This is what a tie-in's should be! a big event in the eyes of a character we care about (this one being three secret avenger members but mostly beast who is one of my favorite x-men).
The writer knows what he is doing with his team book, unlike some other dude who wasted people's money (at the same price as this one no less) showing unnecessary talking of things readers of that book might already know with one funny scene and the rest consisting of two grown women talking like schoolgirls (I'm talking about you mister Avengers 13) so yeah, this black ops team has surpassed the main guys and i hope it keeps it on like that!
The Bad
The bad?..........the BAD!!!!??? You actually expect me to find something bad!!!???.....there is none here ^_^
This is more like a stand alone secret avengers tie in story with beast being the main character and i love it! this is in fact probably one of the best issues I've read in my life!! (sorry herc #2 but you just lost your spot as my #1 awesome comic book issue thanks to this one)
I hope people reading this will be informed well enough that this series is getting great, so pick it up! it's worth it! and if you hold on for a few more issues which i hope they will be as good as this one, warren ellis will take over this book on issue 16 i believe, that's just awesome!