So... Age of Ultron #10 comes out today, and I have to say as a whole the series was a pretty bitter disappointment (Thank god for same day digital publication, I read it on my lunch break).
Don't buy this series, it started off as a cool idea but ultimately went nowhere. All you really need to know is what happens in the last 5 pages (hint: it's not as surprising or interesting as Marvel wants you to believe). I LOVE alternate universe stuff (I loved the eXiles and Xtreme X-Men), but this one really suffers under it's own weight.
Major spoilers (but it's really all you need to know).
Ultron takes over the world and kills almost everyone. The survivors try to band together to fight Ultron, but he turns out to be in the future and unreachable. They use Doctor Doom's old time machine hidden in one of Nick Fury's secret bases in the Savage Land, where everyone but Wolverine and Sue Storm go to the future to try and kill Ultron. They fail. (Timeline A)
Wolverine and Sue use the time machine to go back in time and kill Hank Pym before he could create Ultron (Sue almost tries to stop Wolverine, but the though of her dead children make her not act). They return to the present and find the world in just as bad a state than before, with Morgana Le Fay having taken over most of the world and the Defenders being all that's left from stopping her from destroying New York (Timeline B). Wolverine B goes back in time again to stop Wolverine A from killing Hank Pym. Instead, they work it so that Hank will forget programming a 'kill code' into Ultron until the very last minute before Ultron's victory.
So it's the present again (Timeline C), and the plan works and Ultron is destroyed... but the space-time continuum fractures as 'one time travel too many' unravels things, transporting our Galactus to the Ultimate Marvel universe, and the final page is of Angela, of Spawn fame, arriving in the Marvel Universe and vowing to make whoever was responsible for the shift pay.
Yeah, it took 10 issues to do what I describe in 12 sentences. It spends a painful amount of time setting up this AoU world, and then completely abandons it. And who cares about Morgana, really?
The entire series was nothing but an excuse to bring Angela, formerly from the Spawn comics, to the Marvel Universe, now that Neil Gaiman is coming back to Marvel.
And, to put this in perspective, I read every issue of Spawn through somewhere in the time period of the complete reboot (The
#160s, I think), where they basically undid everything that happened and started over. So I know Spawn, I know Angela, and I really don't care about either character anymore. Angela especially wasn't very interesting.
Hopefully this means we'll get some more Marvel/Miracle Man from Gaiman, now.
I really wish there had been a more compelling resolution, rather than an anti-climatic save and a 10 issue series that basically just served to make a certain writer happy.
I'm all for shaking up the status quo or shuffling things around when it makes for interesting stories, so I'll see where this goes, but right now I'm not impressed.
I did not read the series except for the issue of Superior Spider-Man that came with my subscription. It wasn't very good. I had decided not to read the series based on the end of issue #1. I dislike almost all the grimdark stuff in Marvel comics. After reading the ending and SSM, I'm glad I made the decision I did.
I kinda hope the Ultimate Universe gets eaten.
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Don't buy this series, it started off as a cool idea but ultimately went nowhere. All you really need to know is what happens in the last 5 pages (hint: it's not as surprising or interesting as Marvel wants you to believe). I LOVE alternate universe stuff (I loved the eXiles and Xtreme X-Men), but this one really suffers under it's own weight.
Major spoilers (but it's really all you need to know).
Wolverine and Sue use the time machine to go back in time and kill Hank Pym before he could create Ultron (Sue almost tries to stop Wolverine, but the though of her dead children make her not act). They return to the present and find the world in just as bad a state than before, with Morgana Le Fay having taken over most of the world and the Defenders being all that's left from stopping her from destroying New York (Timeline B). Wolverine B goes back in time again to stop Wolverine A from killing Hank Pym. Instead, they work it so that Hank will forget programming a 'kill code' into Ultron until the very last minute before Ultron's victory.
So it's the present again (Timeline C), and the plan works and Ultron is destroyed... but the space-time continuum fractures as 'one time travel too many' unravels things, transporting our Galactus to the Ultimate Marvel universe, and the final page is of Angela, of Spawn fame, arriving in the Marvel Universe and vowing to make whoever was responsible for the shift pay.
Yeah, it took 10 issues to do what I describe in 12 sentences. It spends a painful amount of time setting up this AoU world, and then completely abandons it. And who cares about Morgana, really?
The entire series was nothing but an excuse to bring Angela, formerly from the Spawn comics, to the Marvel Universe, now that Neil Gaiman is coming back to Marvel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_(comics)
And, to put this in perspective, I read every issue of Spawn through somewhere in the time period of the complete reboot (The
#160s, I think), where they basically undid everything that happened and started over. So I know Spawn, I know Angela, and I really don't care about either character anymore. Angela especially wasn't very interesting.
Hopefully this means we'll get some more Marvel/Miracle Man from Gaiman, now.
I really wish there had been a more compelling resolution, rather than an anti-climatic save and a 10 issue series that basically just served to make a certain writer happy.
I'm all for shaking up the status quo or shuffling things around when it makes for interesting stories, so I'll see where this goes, but right now I'm not impressed.
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I kinda hope the Ultimate Universe gets eaten.