Just WHAT-IF stuff. Not bad at all but not worth 5 bucks for parallel reinvention

Romita has a good inker and is bringing his A-game again.
Nice to see how the chess pieces are moving in the territory battles.

Except the Reyes story it's hard to believe/appreciate these stories are canon with would dtract from the rating given, because the continuity is hardly implied and frustratingly problematic. . Most of the art elevates the rating. The text pages were interesting but not really the reason for getting the comic.

Uninspiring. Too fragmented with exposition to give a hoot.

This might've gotten a higher rating if it was categorically NOT 616 - but it probobaly is and that's irreconcilably a dealbreaker. Also, Black Bolt's matter-of-fact presence with no extrapolary footnotes WEHT him is just lazy reveal.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much more palatable than #1. Not without its flaws, though, number one being characterization of Trevor.

Good stuff. A tad too decompressed.

#2 & #3 dipped a bit but this one turned back around to all out clever fun! With bae-worthy art efforts.

Last issue got a solid 8.5 and this tale felt identical so for that reason it only gets and 8.

At best.

Dumb cover. Dumb ring upgrade. Otherwise good read.

Unremarkable. Return of don't-call-me Nightshade is - something.

Fun read. Makes big battle win in main story less trope-y.

No chronological bearing with the "6 month untold gap" just detracts from "Event", imo.

Good stuff! The lead up chapters were better but still a strong ending!

Average. Partial pacing problem.

Average all around.

Consistently entertaining Felecia characterization going on.

Better than #1. Got to compliment it before the reveal of this so-far interesting 5 star point mystery is told since that MIGHT taint this rating. Good art.

As an Elseworlds tale.

On the plus, side Marvel manages to give all the discarded loser heroes some facetime but it was all so painfully convoluted. Deathoks essentially replace the TVA is a terrible direction. And if felt like the last Black Knight featured mini just went wastefully out the window. Mostly gets a "7" because of how bad X-Force and Legion of X were worse by comparison

Clever way to take out Selene but the problematic precidence from it knocks the rating down some pegs.

Nice retcon excitement. Doesn't seem problematic too much. Neat touch with Dr. "STRANG" being a mishearing. Any real problems to be discovered would drastically lower my rating.

More unbearable than Carol's toothache.

The script action/prose did not flow for me. Generally not a fan of the Authority characters in the DC Earth-1. Backup was better last issue.

I toally agree with rating and blurbs so far.

Uninspiring, unsurprising, for old reader like me but probably a standard, satisfying survival adventure for anyone new to reading comics.

Would've been lower if not for concept content of the canon-challenged servicble backup story.

Formula save-the-day story with gimmickaptain spotlight for backup story to rationalize price increase - just like the premiere. This was only better for the reveal of Speed Demon and Superior Sin. I personally am not a big fan of the liberal simultaneous codename copying. A couple weak parts were that so-called Superior Sin's killcount is presumably zero for bragging rights and Nichelle resorted to 1960's Andy Griffith TV show. more

This was so dull this week. Plus, they gave him, by inference, an unnecessary powerup with midair superbursts by just copying Jon.