Champions #15

If you're not reading Champions, you're missing out on something special. I haven't enjoyed a teen series like this since Young Avengers started back after Disassembled. These characters just work beautifully together and it's so much fun. I can't praise this series enough or articulate how good it is. This is this current generation's New Mutants or New Warriors. This is the kind of series anyone could pick up and enjoy. Read Full Review

Highly recommended! Read Full Review

The Champions come out of "Worlds Collide" as a stronger bunch. Even with Nova threatening to leave, this new mess they find themselves in should be fun to sort out. Read Full Review

This issue was a lot better than the last one, and thank God to have finally gotten the Avengers off the pages of this book. I have a sneaking suspicion that Waid and Ramos may have felt the same way, and they dispatch the Avengers out of this issue in a pretty prompt fashion. The issue leaves us back with just the Champions, and a really neat cliff hanger that should act as a springboard to get the series as normal up and running again as normal. Phew. Read Full Review

Ramos never fails and never disappoints on the artwork. Ever. The ending is very interesting and I'm glad Waid found a way to pull a wildcard to make this crossover mean something at the end result. Champions is a strong ass title. Waid and Humberto are at their best when they're allowed to play their own game. I'm looking forward to how these recent developments get played out back on this creative team's home turf. Read Full Review

The two words that come to mind with this issue are "anticlimactic melodrama." Read Full Review

Ryan

Feb 03, 2019

I liked this crossover/team-up with the Avengers and that last page though

Kalaoui

Dec 20, 2017

I liked it but is it really a conclusion?

CrazyforRAMU

Jul 06, 2018

Maxi-salt mini-reaction: Hey, the High Evolutionary is "pure electronica" now! Break out the molly and the glowsticks! UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ! Viv's "death" ends up shorter than a Brian Michael Bendis fight scene. While the Wasp looks on in dismay, Vision activates a "backup" synthezoid Viv. Human Viv escapes from an under-explored weirdo zone where she was briefly trapped with the High Evolutionary. All of these metaphysical adventures are fascinating, and they tempted me toward a higher rating. But the reason we don't learn enough about Viv is because this issue *also* burns a lot of pages on the stupidest, eyeball-rollingest, most disappointing conclusion to the Avengers crossover *imaginable* - a big pointless hero vs. hero argument. It 's a giant waste and Mark Waid even explicitly draws our attention to how he leaves matters unfinished between the two teams. At least Humberto Ramos's art is impressive throughout; the digital High Evolutionary looks cool and Vision's Frankenstein basement is marvelously creepy. more

DDJamesB

Dec 28, 2017

While it had some good moments, this issue was a waste. It just undid everything from last issue and could have furthered the actual crossover story, but did not.

SloboSOY

Dec 20, 2017

Ok I have to tell that's weird. I love Viv, but I find the previous part of collide a beautiful way to tell her goodbye (Before seen I have missed one page ^^ ). So this story isn't totally strange (In between I have read the last page), and I fully understand vision. But that wasn't great at all. All the part with the Hight Evolutionner is strange (I believed he fled ?) & creepy. Viv having some power like that was totally unrealistic, but I accept that her father working on her have somehow attract her. All the fight between the Champions & the Avengers is really really weird. Nova want to leave, then leave ... Only the end make me with a question what next with both viv in ? Cover - A good cover but not really related 1/2 Writing - Waid lost me their. 1/3 Arts - Love Ramos. 3/3 Feeling - Not a great issue, but I hope the next will be better. If they kill Viv while Surrender I will not forgive them. 1/2 more