Avengers: Twilight #6 is incredibly well-thought-out and had an excellent miniseries conclusion. Read Full Review

Avengers: Twilight #6 delivers a triumphant and tragic ending, resulting in one of the best comics of the year. Marvel may have billed it as the answer to The Dark Knight Returns, but it feels more in line with Kingdom Come: a story that reinforces what's great about the heroes you love and one you'll return to again and again. Read Full Review

All the story and character payoffs lead to a satisfying ending for what is easily a must-read Avengers story. Read Full Review

This was still ultimately a fun Avengers story, one that could have had a bit more weight (and likely would have with a few more issues), but still captured the spirit of the Avengers nicely. Read Full Review

A great finale to a great avengers story. We need more stuff like this. I wanted to be in this world longer. These characters were handled very well. Some plot threads get a little rushed but the majority of the stuff comes together nicely. Acuna is an art god and zdarsky is as zdarsky does.

Great Avengers content. Eouldve liked a different villain but maybe they can return to this world another time.

This managed to be a great series. I think I heard somewhere that Acuna was working on this for a solid year or so, and you can definitely see that commitment and time in the art. Zdarsky, for his part, manages to create a fresh script that never feels like it's going through the motions, or that it's tired, which can often happen in these dystopian future books.

Plot
The final battle begins! While Thor faces off against Hulk, Red Skull's secret weapon, who is beating up Captain America.

On the other hand, Iron Man tries to reason with his son James, who is resentful of the ideas that Red Skull put in his head, but the appearance of Janet, her mother, changes the situation and makes James react. There is no clear explanation of how Janet returns, something related to the quantum realm and a ring.

Red Skull is killed by Steve Rogers, while Iron man makes the final sacrifice and Thor defeats the Hulk and must eliminate him once and for all, as Banner asked him to.

Exciting and dizzying closure of this reimagining of the future of the Avengers, however the relationship between Tony and his son had a very rushed and poorly supported resolution.

Art
It is full of textures and firm lines that give it the appropriate dynamism and tone to show a different future with a real and visceral tone.

Summary
The final battle is here, the Avengers must sacrifice themselves and give their last allegiance to save the world from a Nazi tyranny of Red Skull. more

This was good overall. I think the pacing was arguably stacked a little slow early on and then rushed in the final act of the series, and this took away from the emotional stakes/payoff and maybe also a little from the coherence of certain story beats--but it still worked pretty well, and I think the upbeat vibes are in keeping with the Captain America character as he should be. A part of me wonders if maybe this was envisioned as an 8 or even 12-part series and the script ended up being condensed. I enjoyed it. My theory is that they limited it to 6 issues because the art quality is so high and maybe the script got cut down to fit.

It's good. At first I thought it was lacking some punch and felt a little generic, but it did a good job of making it feel impactful enough.

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Weirdly enough I think this comic gets something or at least how an idea about what the Avengers are about, which is something I feel is often missing. Even if it's never stated explicitly. The debate about if the Avengers are doing too little or too much is often brought up in discussions outside of the comics. That they are too authoritative and so on and this does a good job of focusing a story on that, on them trying to avenge, to redeem. Ready to be in the wrong for the right reasons. I think that's a rebelliousness that is a part of the team, just not often has the space to show it.

In a way, this is like the ultimate, but in reverse, where the most heroic and admirable traits are presented here. The characters confront their sins and atone for them with their all. Tony is a loving father and a husband, ready to make sacrifices and completely defined by that, Thor is a god, filled with sadness and duty towards the people and Cap...Cap is a badass. One gripe i have is that it felt like the story clearly favored Cap over the other characters and I get it, he was the window to that world, and he was the one leading us through it, which considering the political undertones was a great choice, obviously, those were the main themes here and the whole leading was done really well in my opinion. The world was progressively expanding, and our understanding of it, of what happened, and new characters were added like we never got bombarded with anything(maybe just a little bit in this issue). Respect to the way The Red Skull was written btw. Respect to how everybody was written, even if they got a little screentime.

The comics were very collectively paced, which is nice. it felt cinematic, and especially with Cap, his arc was so well tied with everything else. He was growing, as well as the story, itself. From small to big. But in the end, I think it got a little bit too big for its own good, but I get it Big Battles tend to get a little bit like that. Still, something needed a little bit more to tie stuff in a manner that fits the rest of the book. But even if rushed and in a dumb fight, as ideas I like what happened here and what it meant for the characters, even if some of them were rushed too. Some of those faults can be traced to the earliest issues even, where only the cap shined, but then it was not a problem, it was in the end because the idea got clear. At least to me. That said the last few pages were really heartwarming. The passing of the torch and the idea of the avengers to be together living on in the next-gen, while the older heroes can finally lie calmly.On a sidenote, i feel like atoning for your sins and just taking a break from it all after it is a Zdarsky thing.

Acuna is great on the other side, He has great visual language and awesome control of the colors and how they flow and create an environment.. don't Zdarsky and his writing style took the most of him, but still I was never harming it. I just think I should have felt some stuff way more.

Overall, it was a nice mini, it had the heart of the Avengers in it, but maybe if it was only Cap would have been even better. 0.5 points for Tony and jan being together.
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