If there's one criticism that I have of this story, it's that Ellis seems to have kicked things off with Black Summer's most dramatic event, before continually narrowing the focus of the series, undercutting the tense, high-stakes atmosphere of the first couple of issues. In fact, the book abandons a wider perspective on the conflict altogether with this chapter, concentrating almost exclusively on the rebel group of superheroes. This might be an advantage in terms of building up the individual characters of the Seven Guns, but it risks losing sight of the event which was the catalyst of the entire story in the first place. Whilst I'm not averse to Ellis spending time with his characters at the expense of big, hollow action sequences, I do think that the book would benefit from an occasional update of how the world's reaction to Horus' actions is playing out, even if it isn't the main focus of the series. However, this is obviously an intentional choice by Ellis rather than an accident Read Full Review