The biggest Marvel event of the summer starts here! After countless weeks of
preludes amongst the main Avengers titles we will see what all the hype is truly
about.
For starters, this book starts like every other Hickman book with 12 pgs of
prelude since you know, 8 issues of prelude just wouldn’t cut it.
Along with the weird fonts and pseudo futuristic designs that Hickman has made
famous on the title pgs the only thing missing is a spoiling quote from somebody
that’s in the book itself.
Once you’re past half an issues worth of prelude you think hey! This will
finally pick up, then were back to square one, and after some confirmed
sightings and apparently space wiretapping the agents of s.w.o.r.d can safely
confirm that something big is coming, unfortunately what they think is really
coming for them is but the distraction, an appetizer if I may, to the main
course that is Thanos who’s preparing to prison rape the earth when they least expect
it.
Overall like every other Hickman book out there, it feels like he’s just a one
trick pony always attempting to over complicate things for almost no reason
whatsoever. You would think that with countless issues of prelude you could just
jump into the action without having to explain much, unfortunately the average
comic book fan does not have the attention span or the patience to read an issue
that’s almost as along as a graphic novel, hell even Grant Morrison gets to the
point faster than this guy. Any who, the pacing was slower than molasses, the
story itself is interesting for what its worth specially since this is a Thanos
story without the infinity gauntlet for once, and by far the most redeeming
quality of this book is the same as every other Hickman book out there today and
that’s the artwork, gotta be honest here, Jim Cheung truly knocked it out of the
park and remained consistent throughout which is a rare quality coming from a
top tier artist these days.