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Take It Or Leave It – June 19, 2013
Welcome to Take It Or Leave It, where each week I pick out new comics and tell you if they’re worth the price and you should take them, or if you should just leave them on the shelf.
So it’s all come down to this. The final issue of Age of Ultron. Was it all worth it? You’ll need to hit the jump to find out.
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Age Of Ultron #10So, this is what all this was building up to? Really? Ughhh. Yet again, I’ve been had by another massive summer crossover. They get me every single time! AvX. Infinity Gauntlet. Blackest Night. I suppose “Time Traveled one time too many” is slightly better than “Superboy punched the walls between reality too hard” as an excuse to tear down the walls between the multiverses. I wonder if this will curb further time travel stories for a while, as they have done a whole ton in the last few months. Nothing much really happens in this book (or this entire series really). There is a bit of fight, Pym executes the dues ex machina, Ultron is casually destroyed, and then everything just kind of stops, and they setup a few more storylines. The entire series has been one long setup, with the endpoint being far more important than the journey. So what was the point? ****SPOILERS***** Now the Earth-616 Galactus is in the Ultimate Earth-1610 Universe, and Angela from the Spawn comics is in the regular Earth-616 universe. The Galactus part seems interesting, but I’m not confident how well Angela will fit in at Marvel. They don’t really have the concept of one singular “God” in the standard Christian sense. They have plenty of demons in Hell (like Mephisto and all the stuff in limbo) and plenty of Gods (Thor and Loki, the Eternals), but no real “Heaven” or anything angelic. We’ll see how it goes. As the 90’s taught us, you can never have too many half naked badass women around. Also, I’m calling it now, at some point in the future, Franklin Richards is just gonna snap his fingers and fix everything. Unless you already bought parts 1-9, and need to finish your set, you don’t really need this. Almost all the meat of the action was already in last year’s Free Comic Book Day Point One book (literally, it’s the same panels and everything), but now with context it all makes more sense. As long as you know that the take away of the series is time and space are now fractured, the details of the how aren’t really all that important or that interesting. Verdict: Leave ItScore: 6/10 |
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 JohnScott is the proud owner of a life size replica Captain Kirk Chair. He is a hoarder of Comic Books, Transformers, and Star Trek action figures. He attended Space Camp as an adult. He has taken vacations to the closing of the Star Trek Experience and the final night Shuttle launch. He has been known to yell at his television when the kids can't put together the damn statue in the Shrine of the Silver Monkey. When not writing for InsufficientScotty, he is a Software Engineer for a major healthcare communications company.
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