Alright I can’t defend this series anymore. I love ya Hickman but I gotta face it: I have no clue what’s going on here. It’s been well over a year with only eight issues and so far nothing has really been explained.

Each issue seems to be the same. We get a little (key word: LITTLE) insight into a character, this case being Di Vinci, and then the rest of the issue rambles with about the end of the world with no explanation on how that’s gonna happen. This issue finally made me realize that why Issac Newton is definitely the villain of the story, I have no idea why. He just screams that the world is gonna end then he suddenly time travels to the future (of course). Plus Leonid has had so little characterization in this long run that I have no idea why I should care for him. He’s suppose to choose who to follow but because Newton and Di Vinci are so stereotypical good and evil separately the choice is pretty damn obvious. The only characters I really care for are Nathaniel Richards and Howard Stark. I hope we see more of them before the end of the series.

The only thing that keeps me interested in this comic is the GORGEOUS artwork by Dustin Weaver. Every panel is filled with so much detail it’s astonishing. I mean the opening panel of Florence and Di Vinci’s home has so much detail in the buildings and the technology it’s hard to pick just one thing out. I personally love how he handles the action moments of the book, like Richards shooting a beam at Newton and the device slowly comes back to pieces. A lot of credit should go to colorist Sonia O’Back because she makes the book colorful and more interesting to look at.

So it’s really more of the art that is keeping me a float in this series then the story. Plus, considering it’s a bi-monthly title it’s hard to considering dropping it since it takes so long for each issue. But let it be known that this has been a chore to read because Hickman seems to care more about the ideas in this series instead of fleshing it out. To this day I still have no idea why I should care about anything going on in this book. Especially the Star Child who literally appears out of no where at the end of the issue. At least it’s a pretty damn gorgeous book to look at.