So begins the countdown for the next issue. Seven days isn't so bad, but I don't think it really makes up for the slow pace when it's only a five part story. By the time I finish issue three, we'll already be done with sixty percent of the event. It had better see some plans going in to motion and our heroes up to speed so that the book can finally feel like it's going somewhere. Read Full Review

Things get grimmer as the Poisons convert their first 616 heroes and the good guys come up with a whole lot of nothing in the way of good news. I have a tiny sliver of admiration for the way Cullen Bunn has harnessed ALL of his Marvel work in the past three years for this event. (This issue is where Kid Kaiju enters play.) That admiration is completely counterbalanced by how tiresome I find the grinding of the event's plot gears. The heroes are making terribly slow progress uncovering a villainous scheme us readers already know too much about. The charm is wearing off the art, too; I'm no longer impressed by the same spiky Poison design cues repeated ad nauseam with different paint schemes.