After last week’s snooze-fest, at least this issue feels
like it is trying to go somewhere. Unlike Black Panther (and one of his
partners goes in this issue), when She-Hulk and Luke Cage have to sacrifice for
the greater good, it at least seems worth it. It also moves the plot forward.
Not only that, but Bendis seems to have brought his
geographically diverse cast together. We’re down a couple more players, but
Black Widow, Moon Knight, Red Hulk, and Ka-Zar all join the resistance in a
more official capacity. This is playing out like a long What If? story, but
half the fun of those old comics was seeing which heroes happened to survive.
Anyone have any bets on how long Quicksilver or Monica Rambeau last? I give
them one more issue.
I’m also growing more and more convinced that Nick Fury’s
secret bailout plan is just to time-hop back and prevent Hank Pym from creating
Ultron. Perhaps Pym will somehow survive, since he’s in the cast of that new
Robot Avengers title, but I’m not quite sold yet. Too easy for that to end up
being Scott Lang or something.
Bryan Hitch’s art has a habit of bringing out Bendis’ worst
tendencies. The wide-screen approach to comic can lead to a lot of empty panels
where dialogue would make things a bit more interesting or involved. The two
creators mesh a bit better this issue; I really enjoyed the escape from New
York sequence with the surviving Avengers going on the run. Invisible Woman
really is quite powerful, isn’t she?
Fair
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