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A vile and trashy story that not only adds nothing to the main Annihilation story, but will add nothing to your life. Just horrible.

An ugly issue that adds nothing of value

Wow, that was bad. The fight between Betsy and Isca was so short and weak, and ended without explanation. I knew how the fight between Doug and Bei would end, and i really wondered how they would turn the fight into a marriage. If one of the other characters would try to skirt around the rules in order to allow Doug to live, but turns out there was 0 motivation at all! What the hell was that?! Why would Saturnyne just decided to do a marriage? So dumb Then there's the Jubilee stuff which was brought up out of nowhere. Jubilee didn't knew about the event? Why? Such a dumb conclusion. Also love the "Doug can't understand her because of uhhhhh reasons" At least Phil Noto's art was good, and the scene between Isca and Betsy before the fight was cool.

Might as well drop the story halfway and replace them with a "and then all the problems got solved". John Byrne is a hack and a fraud.

Dammit Byrne, again ending action scenes abruptily and with an anti-climax because "wink wink fourth wall break hehe". NOTHING happened in this issue. Fourth wall breaks are 90% of the time just a gimmick in this series apparently. Also the slavery bit was cringe. Least the art was good.

One of the most worthless and inconsequencial comic book issues i've ever read.

Clichê and painfully mediocre. So desperately looking for approval it sounds silly. Even the art stumbles sometimes. Steve and Tony look terrible in some panels. Also, both were poorly characterized. Then the Celestials and Sentry shows up just to say "hey guys, I'm here to die in order to show how powerful my OC is". Then Eddie does the clichê edgy shit of throwing the communicator away when everyone is depending on him, then says "you ready" twice to Venom for no reason. Sigh. Trash.

Man, that was pretty bad. The art is beautiful but the action is so confusing. I can't understand half the stuff that happens. Geography is never estabilished and you don't even know what is hitting people. Starling uses something we don't even see to cut the drone. We don't even see the girl's body afterwards. Did she died, did she ran away? We don't know. Also the writing isn't very good. The motivation of the antagonist opens potencial to talk about something, but nothing is actually said. Also, she goes full evil by trying to kill Miles's family for no reason, and Miles STILL tries to say she's not a bad person?! What the hell. Some last things: -Miles's dad said because of him his neighbors didn't got hurt, but as far as i noticed he didn't really do anything beyond save his family. Not sure if this was in a previous version of the story that got cut in the final version or what; -Misty Knight just giving them a new appartment is pretty weird and convenient. If the writer cared about making it so that they still have a house, maybe he shouldn't have decided to blow it up. Would have made Rabble less irredeemable. -As for the final page...could be interesting. Could be bad as well. Government agends recruiting villains has been done to death already(and literally already done with Scorpion as well), but maybe it will be fine.

Literally what was the point of this issue? Just 24 pages of people being punched. Was the point to show that MK shouldn't have a registration? Then do something better than just this.

Man that is a LONG fall. Literally nothing happens. Don't bother reading if you want to follow King in Black. Go straight to the next issue of KiB.

Was there supposed to be a fifth issue? This issue seemed to be sprinting to finish itself as quickly as possible. Weird considering that the first 3 issues took their time. Dialogue was pretty bad as well.

X-Men quash resistances to imperialism. Wicked. What a meaningless issue. Nothing happened. At least the 90's art was cool, and the antagonist's design was great.

The justification for the fight to happen was stupid, and the action was also stupid. Shuri doesn't have a single strategic thought. The premise behind the scenes regarding the crisis on Wakanda is good, but the execution wasn't. Some scenes could have been more well written. The scene with the Dora Milage is not very well explained. The "be blasted by magic in order to become more powerful" is weird.

So weak. Half the story was goofy haha hijinxs from characters i couldn't care less but i'm supposed to find funny because they are goofy haha. The Daredevil gag went too far, and the plost twist could have been seen from a mile away

Pointing out you are buying issue time by retelling the story of an older comic doesn't make the act itself better Byrne, don't waste our times. At least the art was good.

What the hell was this? So they just solved the main conflict in, what, a page and a half? Man what the hell happened with this series.

Wow, all of my least favorite things in comics together! Bad action,, superheroes acting like fascists(loved the hostage situation where the hero just does a quarterback bash on the person putting a gun at a teenager), bad layouts that not only waste space but also don't help with clarity(the action scenes in the second half), holding out information for the reader for the only reason of keeping suspense for the reveal at the last page, and last and least, SECRET NEVER-BEFORE MENTIONED FAMILY MEMBERS WOOOOO!!! The literal single good thing in this was the conversation with Rebecca in the plane

Was interested in seeing Jessica and Carol's interation, hoping it would be fun, but wow, that was unbearable. I don't care if there's a story reason as to why she's being so shitty. She was already like that in the first issues. This just made me think their friendship is terrible. For a story written by a woman, it definitely looks like 2 male characters Hate seeing superhumans beating ordinary people for no reason as well. Always gives me fascist vibes. Also the destroying/stealing Tony's ship bit was bad.

Quick, the story is coming up short, what do we do? Oh, just do an action scene every 4 pages. I get it, superhero comics and all, but since this is a tie-in, use the free villain whose motivation you don't need to write(a symbiote dragon), not your great friend and partner or Stegron, who did nothing against them. It's also annoying how transparent it is that this is just a side-quest(collect the 3 things before progressing), with 0 pretense in explaining the need for said 3 things(assuming next issue won't explain, which, considering the writing quality of this series, i wouldn't be surprised if they didn't)

What a silly ending. Tom is very desperate to say something but he doesn't know a lot about it, so he talks about the crimes of rich people and people with power like the ending of a Neil Breen movie. It also just throws a resurrection for no reason, and never elaborates on it later despite the story suggesting they would. Also, what was the point of the exploding girl? When they introduced her I though she was going to be explored more, but she was literally just a time bomb and nothing else. I though I was going to at leas be able to complement the art, but even that had problems, as the layout of the last pages made me confused as to the order I'm supposed to read them.

Bad and incomprehensible.

Won't waste my time Hickman.

What a nonsensical conclusion. How did Santi's powers worked there? Why was he ignorant in his own narration boxes throughout this and the previous issues if he had a plan? How did David knew Ruth was going to bring help? How did he found out Red Skull was behind it? Was it related to the ghost of Xavier he saw in the Cortex? Why would anyone have any problem with that persona of Legion erasing Schmidt's brain and putting himself in it? Disappointing conclusion. Hopefully Santi won't be abandoned after this issue and that's the last we see of him.

Very bad issue. Extremely repetitive(i think Kang got hit in the back by a surprise assailant 4 times in this issue), with bad pacing, inconsequencial moments and out of nowhere plot points.

Completely meaningless action issue. Some pages looked cool I guess.

So the solution against Thor's opponent was for him to just attack the civilians himself? Mackay really couldn't think of anything better?

This is all so dumb. T'Challa knows who attacked him but he decides not to tell anyone. Then Shuri has leads that lead to Namor and she doesn't bother to ask T'Challa about it. Then she decides she will "talk" to Namor when that clearly means fight because of it. Can't people just talk?!

It's barely better than the previous issue due to the fact that the post kiss romance isn't obnoxious like their tough love from before. The scene with T'Challa was ok as well, but it still has big problems in dialogue and scene transition.

Ugly art.

Barely understood what happened.

Writing was ass during 60% of the issue, but then the later half was great. Not sure what happened.

Almost decided to drop the series after that first scene with the Avengers. What is that trash and why do X-Men writers still do this? As for the rest, the writing in the second scene was pretty bad. So much "tell, don't show" and very forced. The "repeat" of the same twist from the first issue was also unnecessary.

Wow this was ass.

Bad arc, and a bad ending. Going to assume McDuffie had to wrap things up quickly in order for Millar to start his run. It certainly looks hurried

Weak issue, and I won't see the end of this story anyway so it was just a very long mediocre story.

As a person who only read the this run + Silver Surfer Black(which is amazing and you should definitely read, BTW), and doesn't have any connection with all the other Cosmic MARVEL stories he wrote, i didn't liked it too much. It drops plot points, ignores characters and solves problems in very weak ways.

The reason why they decided to marry was very stupid, and i feel like the way they explained why Fei Long hates mutants was so bad i actually thought they were just retelling this and that information was already shown in a different comic i missed, like X-Men.

Whenever I see an issue that's about helping people I'm usually pretty happy, but this sucked. There was 0 time used to show the people being trafficked getting actually freed, but there's 3 whole pages dedicated solely to show the slavers getting punished. Priorities guys. Also, so silly to me that they would save humans but also be cunty about it. "The council wouldn't allow it" no? Who would vote against it? Sinister, Exodus, Mystique and Shaw, vs Xavier, Erik, Kurt, Kate and Jean in favor. Then not only not allowing them on Krakoa but also saying they are forbidden from entering parts of M Island is so dumb. Whatever, weird, bad story.

Scenes in the present added nothing. Only the flashbacks were interesting.

What a weak solution.

Wait, where was Simon during the middle of the issue?

Just mindless, bad action, with no plot except for the last pages, and weak banter.

Very poorly paced issue with bad action.

Really bad issue. At least a lot happened, i guess.

Barely anything happens in this issue, and as always Byrne has to come up with a new gimmick to waste time.

Cringe dialogue of "genius" character.

Lame ending

I get that this is a spin-off one-shot but man what a nothing issue. "International Incident" wasn't amazing but it felt like it had a progression.

Very bad action.

So gross it gave me chills. Vile story.

Poorly paced. Some scenes take their time and then others just zoom by so quickly you don't even understand the seriousness of the situation. Some panel layouts were pretty bad too, and the retcon on Daken's powers is so cowardish. Just accept that your character's powerset has a problem and build the story around it. At least one of the scenes that took it's time was pretty good, which is Speed's.

Very bad and meaningless action. Things just happen.

It's impressive how I feel nothing about the main plot of this event. The enemies are completely uninteresting. They should have just made the story be about Thanks and the Black Order.

Considering the fact that both this issue and Infinity #5 came out in the same week I don't really get why they decided to make this essencially a filler issue when SO MUCH happened in the previous one. They could have easily attached the events of issue #21 onto this one and give the ups and downs of the war we saw in said issue a bit more time to breathe. Dialogue was fine that and the pretty visuals of the shops, but that was basically it.

The issue was mostly action, and tge action itself was pretty meaningless and bad, so there's not much to bite in here. Art is great.

The main story was pretty bad. It sounded like a story written for children. The second story was a bit better, despite being much shorter and closed on itself. Art and colors of said story was great, which helped a lot.

A very pretty nothing-issue.

The art was good and dynamic.

I have literally nothing to say about this issue. Art isn't even that great compared to the work i know by Lee Garbett and Belen Ortega. Colors were good tho. So tired of post-apocalyptic futures.

Shooting a gun at a person so the hero saves him not only won't lead to the lawyer being disbarred immediately, but also frame the hero negatively?

So...what was the point of these giant-sizes? Ned was fun i guess.

This was so weak.

Hated how casual they were with violence. Kate literally shots two arrows in each eye of a person and she treats it like it's nothing. Gross.

I really hope Armor Wars and those fellas who attacked in the flashback end up being relevant in the story in the present, because if not then it was a big waste of pages. The way the antagonist managed to get control over Stark Unlimited was also far too easy.

These types of retcons are really abnoying. It was fun to be introduced by these 3 characters at least. ...still don't get how he suddenly appeared in China.

Having a lot of difficulty recognizing the faces. When the names aren't mentioned in the page I feel lost. The issue also looks like a bunch of vignettes, sometimes with scenes lasting a single page, which makes things more difficult.

I feel like i only understand half the pages in this arc. Still don't know anything about Carson, and not sure where this story is going. Also have difficulty recognizing the characters.

Didn't connected at all with this issue. No progress at all and the character development was weak.

This is the fifth issue and it's the third time they do a "protagonists sneak on somewhere where the antagonists are doing a thing, then get caught". Stop wasting my time Gillen. Also, start delivering a story in a way that won't require me to know about a 1,500 year old book. It's getting dificult to deal with these new rules appearing and disappearing all the time

This story is an amazing argument in favor of Kamala Law. 4 complete fools just threw themselves in front of a criminal who literally shot at them with bo regard for their lives. So irresponsible. The issue was fun until that point. Unfortunate.

Whack solution. I forgive some of it since it's of course a lighter comic but I didn't liked it as much.

The conflict just ends abruptly and all the threads are solved.

Very by the book. Not very original.

Not a very interesting issue.

Basically no story progression, basically just a (pretty well drawn, I must confess) very long action scene.

Disappointing conclusion

A painfully mediocre ending for a painfully mediocre book. I don't get why this was so well received. I liked the characters themselves, and their interactions are...fine, but man the tone of the book just didn't worked with me at all.

The book doesn't take itself seriously, but the jokes are very cringy. Not a good mix.

First story was terrible, but the second one was pretty good.

Obviously Leah was in a hurry due to Marvel fucking her plans up, but I think she juggled things well all things considered. The part with Shatterstar and Morrigan was completely incomprehensible to me. I'm not sure what I was missing really. Other than that the paneling was great. It was a very stylish issue. And I'm liking how useful they made Trevor's powers. It's tough being a Cypher-like character in X-Men comics.

I guess the action was creative but at the same time so poorly executed and solved. The Sentinel who for some reason was on top of the plane, falls on top of the plane, who not only stays basically intact but also doesn't even lose altitude apparently? Also damn, those people on the plane sure are forgiving of the mutants who almost killed all of them by attempting to steal a phone. Also, what's up with the phone being used as evidence that the ambassador's mind was taken over by Cassandra? 1: She doesn't say her name, why would anyone trust Jean's word? 2: Who's to say that couldn't have been doctored anyway? Anyway, the scene in Atlantis wasn't very good as well. Is Teen Abomination a swimmer? Because it's kind of weird that he can even reach Namor and Gently by swim. Lastly, it's a dumb nitpick thwt doesn't really affect my score, but I always found the "video that's streamed in every screen on the world" trope very silly. Imagine playing Resident Evil 4 whole some Regeneradores are around you and then suddenly some random redhead appears in your screen saying a bunch of stuff you know nothing about.

So painfully edgy, good god.

Visuals are great in general, from art to inks to colors, but it's style over substance. The action sequence in the beginning was a bit too vague, without giving a good sense on the geography and what actually knocked out/killed each victim. Interested in wether Zak-Del's father is actually his father or a part of the control of the Phalanx. Considering the end of the issue, this seems less likely, but i found it curious that his ghost would be so eager to tell the son that he has to focus on getting revenge on him. Not the type of thing you hear from a ghost of the protagonist's dead parent. The scene with Ronan finding out that the Supreme Inteligence is "alive" and will be used by the Phalanx was pretty good. Made me intrigued on what will happen. I just wonder why Wraith didn't freed him alongside Super-Skrull and Praxagora.

The whole tsunami part was very silly. Both it being made and stopped by Amadeus.

Man i do NOT care about the mystery behind this threat. Hickman better surprise me when Infinity actually starts.

Pure setup issue. Pretty mediocre considering it. Could have been a #1, and certainly would have benefited from the extra pages of one. Some slight restructuring could have allowed for the story to be more than just that. In the end enjoying the issue hinges almost entirely on enjoying the designs of the new antagonists...which fortunately i did, on most of them.

A completely mediocre and forgettable issue, but the art was great.

A fine issue but what a dumb solution. What reason does the Gilded Saint has to think Fox was the one who rigged the contract?

Don't like the way they portrayed Ross here. Seems like the writers have a big disagreement on him compared to how Christopher Priest wrote him.

A disappointing conclusion. The control of Zenzi ending with a speech was particularly silly. Sounded like something from the West Wing. The ghosts defeating the remaining People also wasn't very satisfying.

Terrible action on an otherwise fine issue

The middle to end was borderline incomprehensible.

The story is interesting but the dialogue and art isn't good. It's too practical, only made to move the story forward, and without flourishes or spice, on the lack of a better word. I also don't liked conflict between Aneka and Ayo in this issue compared to the previous.

A nothing issue really. Nothing bad, nothing noteworthy.

Issue was better than the last one but god this art is atrocious.

Well, that resolution of the Space Knights was gross. Just kill the last survivors of a people for no reason. Only reason i'm giving this passing grades is the art.

Really liked the middle of the story, but the third act was really weak.

Weaker issue. Writing wasn't as good, and neither was the humor.

I'm not sure i understood the ending, or the point of the story in general. Overly long for no reason, as well.

Weak ending. what made this arc good in the beginning was the moral challenge to Wally. This conclusion just sidesteps the conflict entirely just to have and ending where Wally solves the problem by punching the enemy.

The way Amadeus's intelligence is portrayed is so cringe.

Disappointing issue. At least the art was fine.

Story was fine until the end. Not a fan of easy solutions that instantly solve the problem.

A heel turn like that makes sense when you have a hundred years of time. It makes it easy to fill the blanks and imagine the path the Hulk took in order to go from good to evil. This just shows his path to evil as being very short and linear, which makes it very hard to justify how out of character it is. Still, the issue itself was fine. In a vacuum i would have given a higher score.

What bad contrivance to motivate the heist. Also, Ororo's insistence in framing this as her saving Wakanda and the world was so silly.

First story: Bad art for most of it, and the story was pretty bad. Loki just brings Echo to a different planet for...no reason? And makes her solve the problem instead of him do it himself? The flash of the future is possibly a hint towards her becoming the Phoenix host? If that was premeditated back then, that was cool, but otherwise a pretty bad story. Second story: Fun! Great art as well. The representation of the boy's power was really cool, and the 3 panels of the boy asking Dani about her identity as a native and krakoan was cool. Third story: I know absolutely nothing about this. Definitely the story that felt the most dependant on knowledge of the comics mentioned in the second to last page. Impressive deep cut i assume. I wasn't sure if Trigo's powers were to see the past or the future. Wish they made it clearer. Art was great too.

The most generic first issue anyone would have ever made. Fortunately the art is unbelievably good.

Good issue despite the whole American soldiers/heroes entering another country and fucking shit up.

Meaningless issue. No reason for the Illuminati intervene with this single person who's not even a danger anymore. Also, their motivation to him is to just make him "New York superhero #517"? The beginning of the issue was fun but the shallowness of the issue combined with the cover only being a reference to that (fun but)meaningless conversation in the beginning makes me think that Bendis and Reed didn't really knew what to do. Looks like just a filler issue. I know eventually both will write Marvel Boy so if the plan was to setup them doing something with him, they should have done a better job.

Art was simply incredible, but very little plot for a third of the book, and there was some pretty bad dialogue.

The tropey dialogue took me put of the story.

It was...whatever. Him freeing himself from the influence of the Phalanx was a bit too close to "the power of friendship". Him acting like a jack-ass when the Worldmind has the solution was also annoying, but the solution itself was also some mumbo-jumble that you can boil down to "trust me bro".

Hate how every comic book has to have some giant disaster happening. It hits my suspension of disbelief pretty hard. As for the premisse of the event itself, it's excellent, but i have questions whether they will deliver a story and conclusion with the quality that the premisse deserves. I agree with the law, BTW.

The beginning of the issue was pretty bad. The action was difficult to understand and the narration got old really fast. Fortunately this book is so damn charming it pulled through in the end.

What a nutty story. Art was great though

The art is beautiful, but this is a martial arts-themed comic, so the action has to be great as well, and it simply isn't. The way the conflict between Shang and Dagger started and then went completely ignored after it was dumb.

I still don't fully understand how the Ama treated the Brekks. Were the Brekk actually being oppressed? Were they under colonialism by the Ama? If so I don't find this "both sides are the same" approach as a good one.

de Luis's art made some things confusing at the end.

Had some problems with the visuals. Some things weren't established, or established well. The sudden killing of his wife and the turning of his son were also too sudden.

Too repetitive. She talks to someone, then runs away, then someone reaches her, talk, then run away, then someone reaches her.

It's an cool team, and the art is good, but man there is nothing interesting in this book beyond that, and the humor is terrible. Also, there is a lot of information between pages that was lost to me due to the format. A lot of obstructed bodies and faces i couldn't see.

It's an cool team, but it was a very mediocre arch.

So-so issue. There seems to be a problem with how some characters are used (they just let Quentin and Johnny to do nothing while all the action was happening up there). Cool to see Noh-Varr, Kate and America together.

Guess nothing matters really. Least the art was ok.

Geez George Perez, STOP TALKING. So much text. The man is an artist, why is he writing so much? The prose is good but there's too much of it. Also, too many unnecessary thought balloons. I don't need to be informed that Diana is being grabbed by ebony hands when the art already shows her being grabbed by ebony hands.

Too sappy and easy for my taste.

Where is the introspection from Tony, Reed and Strange? The story just glosses over the whole "a million died from their bomb" and there's not even a consideration to his terms? I really hope the story deals with that later.

The part with the living building was super fun, but it overstayed it's welcome. The rest of the book was very weak. This was also possibly Dwayne McDuffie's last work at Marvel. May he rest in peace.

Generic action issue, + terrible scenes with Monet, Pip and Lorna, + characters killing sentient beings like nothing. At least the colors were beautiful.

It was a...fine issue, but it felt like a filler. It introduced a problem at the end of an issue, and then in this one they solve it. That's it. The fight also wasn't particularly interesting as well, and neither was the twist.

I love me some queer representation and sex-positivity, but was the whole "get Logan and Hercules disguised" part of the plan JUST an excuse to make the leather joke? They didn't actually do anything in the fight.

Horribly rushed. Should have been 33 pages long instead.

Fine issue, but the sudden appearence of characters who apparently were always there in a scene made some moments a bit confusing.

Very little of story actually happened, but it's cool to see the Avengers just helping people and solving problems. So often heroes only job is punching people

Bad action. Scenes with Captain Universe & Manifold and Starbrand and Nightmask were good.

It just throws a bunch of new concepts while being extremely vague in the off chance that we get interested in one of them. Then it nukes a college and the Avengers couldn't give a care about all the burned skulls they are stepping on.

If there's one character who would emphasize with Kevin in this team, it's the Hulk. His reaction in this was stupid

Great art by Matteo Buffagni. Pretty mediocre story though.

First story was fine. Definitely carried by Ross who I like so much. 6,5. Don't know anything about McGregor's work on BP, but that was a great story. Art as beautiful as well. 7,5. Black to the Future 2 was pretty bad. Basically just a narration of what happened in the past of that future. 4,5.

The first scene with the Hatut Zeraze wasn't very well written i feel.

An obviously rushed ending.

Ayo and Aneka's relationship was pretty good in this issue.

Glad to see that the story did improve over time. I actually did enjoyed this issue.

I would have given a higher score because i actually liked the issue, unfortunately the action is just terribly drawn. I don't understand how the superhero genre consistently has such bad action. There's more to this than just drawing cool poses.

Disappointing. Such an interesting cast of characters wasted. Wanted to see the artist drawing these characters in a better story.

Again with the the cartoony villains.

This was weaker than the annual. A little too cliche.

Weakest issue so far. The flashbacks didn't really added much, and the action in the present wasn't well drawn nor interesting.

Where does the idea that dictatorships are somehow more safe than democracies comes from? Comic writers love to do this in alt-universe stories.

Expected more from this issue.

Lmao they defeated Titania off-screen.

Kind of lame that Wally winning is just cause by him deciding to lock in, and then Thawne just gives up. Besides that, a fine story.

Expected more from Hickman than to just repeat what was done before. They could have done a (mostly) silent issue again with a different plot behind instead.

Rocket has 40 years of history and 10 years as a Guardian, and he STILL has to learn this lesson. Good god, writers just refuse to let these characters evolve.

Weak action. Promising ending though.

I like fights that end with peaceful means, but this one didn't worked for me. Still don't like how BRB now using Twilight wasn't used at all, specially how his line about using Mjolnir.

Nothing particularly interesting happened. A lot of wasted pages, i feel. Great art tho

Weak issue compared to the others, but Circe's story was cool, and Zatanna reopening her mouth was pretty metal.