Each new reality is more creative than the last, and this one is both portentous and breathtaking, with a story to match. Read Full Review

While simultaneously continuing its superhero and crafting an exceedingly clever examination of that genre, Defenders #4 also provides one of the best looking comics Marvel has published in 2021 " a triumph. Read Full Review

Racing from reality to reality, Doc Strange, and this motleyist of crews, run the entire gamut of possibilities to discover some things will always remain constant. Will they save this current dimension of creation? Or will they wreck everything weve become accustomed to? Read Full Review

Javier Rodriguez does an excellent job of capturing the surreal aspects of the story visually. The style is brilliant reminiscent, but original at the same time. Read Full Review

A really great issue, both in writing and art.

Ewing and Rodriguez are doing a great job creating newish things and I appreciate the effort to expand things!

This comic made my head hurt, in the good way.

While I think this is a little bit lacking in terms of pure plot and great prose, the structure of the story is fine. The visuals remain gorgeous, which certainly helps.

And to make up for the fact that this is only a so-so superhero story, we get a heaping great stack of cool meta-fictional insights. There are fascinating observations (and some subtle critiques) about the comics medium, the superhero genre, and the way Marvel comics are managed.

I think it's damned classy that Al Ewing remains wholly optimistic about the value of breaking cyclical stories, something he's been trying to do at Marvel for 6 years. He even references one of his own great cycle-breaks -- changing Galactus from Devourer to Life-Bringer -- without any bitterness about the fact that later writers stuck Big G back in his cage.

(I do detect a *hint* of bitterness at what Donny Cates is doing to the Hulk, though, maybe.) more

This is Ewing at his worst, all nonsense and the art can't save him.