Age of Ultron Book Nine!

Age of Ultron Book Nine was kind of boring.  I am not really sure where to start.  The epic battle that started in the last issue with the 2^nd timeline the writers are calling Age of Morgana Le Fey did not happen.  There was an explosion that ended the fight apparently.  Wolverine finds Tony Stark from the Le Fey timeline babbling about how they had to stop trying to fix the timeline.  So Wolverine goes back in time and stops himself from killing Hank Pym.  They pull this off just by talking and Sue Storm shows up to add to the confusion.  The three of them Sue Storm, Wolverine and Wolverine seem to convince Pym to add a kill switch to Ultron.  Then they head back to the savage land to return home.  It appears that one Wolverine Kills the other (I did not think that it was possible to kill Wolverine with his regenerative healing factor).  Sue Storm and the surviving Wolverine head to the time platform.  This was so very disappointing the issue that promised an epic fight turns out to be just nothing but talking.  The idea of a Wolverine vs. Wolverine fight was nothing more than them moping and a one panel kill shot.  I am starting to lose my enthusiasm for this epic cross-over adventure.

Wolverine and the X-Men #27 AU (Age of Ultron)

Wolverine and the X-Men #27AU (Age of Ultron) was interesting and storytelling all in one.  This was the story of Sue Storm and Wolverine making their way from the Savage Lands to Manhattan to confront Hank Pym as detailed in the main Age of Ultron book.  Both characters have an interesting adventure while exploring a S.H.I.E.L.D base in search of a power pack for their stolen flying car.  Wolverine encounters the Brood and Sue spies on her family.  It turns out this small out of the way S.H.I.E.L.D base was into a little over everything.  Their actions have no obvious consequences that would interfere with the main storyline.   

Fantastic Four #6!!

Fantastic Four #6 was a good story and a vast improvement from what has happened in the past few issues.  In this issue for whatever stupid reason the family has decided to visit the birth of the universe just seconds after the Big Bang.  There they find a living thing possibly an alien stranded, now if you had read the first two pages of this issue you would know this person was condemned to die at the end of the Universe.  The Thing, who is having some issues that include glowing eyes, goes out and rescues the stranded person.  It turns out the person they rescue is Blastaar of Baluur a rather powerful villain that has fought the Fantastic Four before.  A fight ensues that causes a lot of damage to the ship and has the Thing hanging from the outside.  In order to save everyone Franklin uses his power to move the ship and everyone further along the time stream possibly to the end of the universe.  We are treated to viewing the death of Blastaar.  It was almost an anti-climactic death for such a powerful character of the Marvel Universe.

Fantastic Four #5AU (Age of Ultron)

Fantastic Four #5AU (Age of Ultron) or we get to kill off the Fantastic Four.  This is the story of how Sue Storm is one of the survivors hiding in the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier in the main Age of Ultron comic book.  So the story starts sometime in the past or future and the Fantastic Four – The Thing, Human Torch, Reid Richards and Sue Storm leave their children behind to go help defend Earth.  They arrive too late and they are all killed off one by one in very dramatic fashion.  Sue somehow survives even though she was being hunted by a pack of Ultrons.  She was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building by the She-Hulk.  The story ends with the kids back on the ship wondering what are they going to do now.  Considering who they are and the powers they have shown in the past there is little they cannot do to fix the timeline.  The question is if the writers will allow them to be more than another sideshow in the Age of Ultron story arc.

I hope everyone has a Happy 4th of July!

Age of Ultron #2 !!!

Age of Ultron #2 was just a long and uninformative monolog by Spider-Man.  We got to see the Black Widow and Moon Knight in the ruins of San Francisco but that was just more set up of the main story.  We do get to see Moon Knight kill a guy that looks a lot like Paul Giamatti before the guy could steal from the Black Widow.   This issue seemed to just be a holding spot and stalling until Captain America finally says something.  The cover art is completely and totally false and misleading.

Fantastic Four #5

Fantastic Four #5 was kind of weird.  I say the issue was weird because this time the Fantastic Four Family head to ancient Rome to ask Jullius Caesar a question.  The kids and Johnny Storm (Human Torch) want to know if Caesar really did live with pirates and over pay his own ransom.  It turns out that Caesar was actually a time traveling alien and hilarity ensues.  Reid and Sue have some alone time to discuss Reid’s illness.  All ends well and the timeline is only a little changed.  We flash to what we are told is “Last November” and get to see Caesar has survived.  While I did call this issue weird I have to say it was a vast improvement in story telling reaching all the way to entertaining.