A little bit better. But still annoying and confusing. And in the end we are to believe that Steve Rogers will make it all right. Well I'm not buying it. Franklin Richards as always was cool. But the random future Avengers were not cool. Hawkeye versus Hawkeye though... Will this series never end?

One of my favourite things in superhero comics is when they smash ahead into the future. This book keeps doing that over and over, increasing by an order of magnitude each time.

Hickman anchors this by character while pushing its ideas as far as possible.

It is Exactly My Kind Of Thing.

+some great paneling right away
++Great reusing previous scenes on a new light.
+Body language in silent cap panels
+++I remember
+The face off.
-Captain being a bit more, unshackled with his anger meshes with my image of him slightly
++Time travel shenanigans, yes please, all the time
++Hawkeye/Hawkeye
++To issues in and this premise has me hooked. Please keep up these twists and don't let me down.
+Bad dreams
++Creepy thought of falling out of the future and rotting to dust
++Keeps me guessing with new twists and giving me futures that are far from expected. Hard to keep pulling that off over and over
+Good wrap up and cliff hanger for the next volume
-also a bit weird for Captain to not really change his intentional plan?? At least he's not as angry maybe?

Doo-Dee-Da! This one was a gooder!

It was all soo...timey wimey.

Cap and some Avengers are flung forward in time because of the infinity gems and worlds colliding and...well...if you haven't been keeping up...you probably shouldn't be starting here. Go back to the first volume and fill up the tank.

Hell...I AM caught up and this story hurts my brain.

I would have probably given this five full stars...but I'm taking one away because a good chunk of this volume is just Cap dealing with shit. This isn't a solo book...it's a team book. So yeah, I'm yoinking a star for that.

Still, there was some seriously cool stuff in this one. The arc is classic Hickman doing his thang and he's doing it well. It's pretty clear this far into the game how its all going to spiral into this summer's Secret War event.

It's getting me all antsy and shit. I'm excited!

WOW this was so intense i loved it. i haven’t read any of the previous stuff in hickman’s run, i read this part because it tied into original sin and i was a little lost at times but for the most part i was able to keep up just fine. before i was even done with the first issue of this, i added all of hickman’s avengers to my reading list bc he just did a phenomenal job with this. cannot wait to read the rest of this run.

See also: my last New Avengers review. I'm really enjoying how crazy this has become, and the frantic, kinda sketchy art style that this series has had is back in full force and matches perfectly for the story.

3.5 Stars