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Avengers: Time Runs Out, Vol. 2 by Jonathan Hickman

webjoram's review

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4.0

Y se acabó. Con este volumen se acaba la etapa de Hickman en Los Vengadores y Los Nuevos Vengadores y aunque en lineas generales la he disfrutado mucho el final me ha dejado con un regusto amargo. Después de meses cebando el final con la previsible pelea entre los héroes del universo Marvel y el Ultimate nos quedamos a las puertas y será en las Secret Wars cuando veamos ese enfrentamiento. Por lo demás en este volumen Hickman intenta cerrar tramas, no las consigue con todas, al menos satisfactoriamente y nos desvela quién está detrás de las incursiones y sobretodo quién esa figura misteriosa de Rabum Alal. Ya os digo que vais a quedar flipados.

mistercrow's review

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3.0

Story is picking up but the artist kinda sucks (personal preference). I really prefer Cheung.

mjfmjfmjf's review

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3.0

Isn't this ever going to end? Way past the point of don't care. The writing is a bit better in this one. And the art is okay. But too many groups. Too many worlds. Too many characters. Too much plot. This is too big to be moving as fast as it is. And too complicated at any speed and size. Details are okay - Roberto's group especially. But for the rest, I just wish it would end.

standardman's review

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4.0

Great writing, some bloody awful deodato art ruins some big moments.

matterofmichael's review

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4.0

+dynamic between Doom and Fantastic kids is fun
--Tony doesn't look as haggard as he should be being in a box so long.
+Tony's egotism in full display
+Pod and Kitty
--recapping old volumes of God's seems a waste of time...with potentially new knowledge I forgot or was in another book?
++Beast asking for help
+All the double sided players makes for good confrontations
-/+ Thorr is worthy! But it wasn't as epic as it could have been
++ Interesting reveal on who the Eye is.
-little pointless exposition build up for a coin flip... Again waste of precious panels in my eyes
++Reed's monologue to his daughter
++Captain Marvel/Hulk fight
+Angry Captain America
+Double Hulks is a nice twist
-artwork switch/style change hallways through the issue is a bit jarring
++Invisible Woman ace up the sleeve

+/-A fun overall volume. I do think some of the exposition is getting a bit much when talking about the end of the universes. They've been hitting that home hard got a lot of issues and I think it might be getting in it's own way a bit.

skolastic's review

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3.0

This was a bit eh, and felt a bit like the backsliding around the second volume of Hickman's Avengers - SHIELD's manhunt for the Illuminati just isn't that interesting to me, and feels like a boring sideshow after all of the incursion fireworks. There's some stuff I really, really like in here too, though - the revelations about where Stark and Strange have taken off to are genuinely great (even if the Iron Man-centric issue is another one of those "wait, did I miss an issue?" stories where Hickman refers back to events we haven't seen in Avengers/New Avengers as if they were common knowledge), and Sunspot is fast becoming one of my favorite characters in all of this.

rtimmorris's review

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4.0

Doc Strange is a creep and Doc Doom's quest is giving me those Uh-Oh feelings. Things are moving in dark directions. Old Cap still sucks.

francomega's review

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3.0

More insight into the events that lead to Secret Wars. Crazy 5-way fight at the end between the Illuminati, S.H.I.E.L.D, New Avengers, Secret Avengers, and the Cabal.

squidbag's review

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3.0

No one does cosmic multi-dimensional operatic epic like Hickman, and this one certainly continues with the inevitability of the previous chapter - but I'm certain that it makes a lot of sense. If you can't turn from your comic to someone who doesn't read them and adequately sum up the plot, then it's possible that it doesn't actually make sense. I will read the ensuing chapters to see if they cast this in a more explainable framework.

Individual scenes are quite good, with multi-dimensioinal Hulks and angry old Steve Rogers (who is actually a little heartbreaking, but well-written) and Dr. Strange being Dr. Strange. Recommended only for hardcore Marvel fans who are caught up with recent events.

nigellicus's review

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5.0

The Avengers are not happy with each other. There are now three Avengers teams, maybe four, okay five, and they are having a disagreement with how to deal with the end of all of reality. They fight. Someone tries to reason with them! No, fight. Wait betrayal! Tune in for more fighting, and megadeaths.
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