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jammasterjamie's review
4.0
I've read Hickman's 'Infinity' collection before and I have to say that the added context that comes in this volume by interweaving that story with what was going on in the main Avengers titles at the same time made the whole thing a lot more enjoyable and filled in a lot of missing gaps, and now that I think about it, the same can be said for a whole lot of the missing information I needed when reading 'Avengers World: The Complete Jonathan Hickman Collection' as well. After reading this big, fun-filled sucker, it all finally makes sense.
Here's something that's kind of a spoiler but not really: At one point towards the end, Manifest complains to Cap about how exhausted he is from the last world-ending battle and how he doesn't understand where they're supposed to get the energy to run immediately into the next fight, and Cap explains that there's nothing special about them and that The Hero's Journey is a myth and that fighting the never-ending battle is simply what they do because it's there to be done, and then literally two pages later Manifest is talking to Thor who gives an inspirational speech about fate and how their entire lives had led up to this moment. It was just a really cute and sardonic moment of great comic book logic and character motivation and it made me laugh.
Here's something that's kind of a spoiler but not really: At one point towards the end, Manifest complains to Cap about how exhausted he is from the last world-ending battle and how he doesn't understand where they're supposed to get the energy to run immediately into the next fight, and Cap explains that there's nothing special about them and that The Hero's Journey is a myth and that fighting the never-ending battle is simply what they do because it's there to be done, and then literally two pages later Manifest is talking to Thor who gives an inspirational speech about fate and how their entire lives had led up to this moment. It was just a really cute and sardonic moment of great comic book logic and character motivation and it made me laugh.
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