Terrible. Cartoonish like Slott at its worst. Still a rip off of Ready Player One.
The Mom Son subplot gets dragged out and it’s not needed. It plays like Terms of Endearment.
And a third rate villain like the Controller is your big bad? And he even gets to give an evil laugh.
I’m signing out.

"Session terminated. Goodbye"

I think a few online games out there could use someone like Arsenal. Maybe it would make things more enjoyable.
As for the issue itself. It was ok, I guess. Nice art, not a bad dialogue and likable enough cast.

The thing is, it's issue #6 and I really can't tell where this book is going, what it's aim is. It seems to wander around topics like artificial intelligence and virtual reality (interesting topics), but it seems to do it without any real excitement, without anything that would hook the reader.

Slott's Spidey stories had some spark, spirit. His Iron Man stories are currently lacking these. more

While the art is enjoyable and this is a good story, makes me wonder about the overall Iron Man story. Does Dan Slott even have a long game for this comic or is he just playing from issue to issue. Is the current storyl arc complete? Because this issue feels unnecessary right now. Yes it is a good story but the comic just feels like all the issues could easily be one shots

I don’t like Dan Slott’s writing, he has great great ideas and knows how to do a good plot, but he is terrible with characters when he is not inspired, that’s why we got a Spider Man run in which Peter Parker rarely evolved as a character despite intricate plots, even brilliant ones like Spider Verse.
So far it’s the same with Iron Man, this book is about everything but Tony, and three issues in we have gotten more Rhodey, Jocasta and Machine Man, and even that terrible character Amanda Armstrong.
Also it feels like a knock off of Ready Player One. And do we need another Are Robots Humans when this type of story hss been done to death elsewhere?
Mediocre so far. more

Great! Not necessarily a proper team up book but a nice teaser of what could be. Ewing and Bennett are quickly becoming a great duo. I just wish i had more pages for better delivery. Could have been another 5 series mini to delve into all the angles.

What a mess. Truly awful event. First of all, what were the consequences? None. Okay. Major character death that happens so fast and doesn't make any sense. This was gonna be the epic Infinity Stones saga? Oh please.

Duggan usually writes well but this was just so bad.

On the level of 'What Happened', I kinda get it but I don't like it -- another silly alternate universe with more pointless alternate character versions, a vague new direction for Loki that's bound to be ignored by the overabundance of writers who'll be using him in the future, and something about the stones getting souls. On the level of 'Why These Things Happened', I'm sure it all makes sense in Duggan's mind, but for me, nearly every page contained things happening without any sense of cause and effect or story logic. I can't really say this event was bad, but just... baffling. more

Pointless and idiotic to the end. No rhyme lr reason.
Seems like this whole event was engineered to get rid of Drax.
The Guardians hardly played any role. Warlock was ridiculous throughout. Whoever approved this story should be fired?
I can’t believe this is the same Duggan did in Uncanny Avengers and Nova. His Guardians run had been lackluster but this is outright terrible.

Brilliant. Ed Brisson is the best writer working in Marvel right now, along with Donny Cates.
The X Men haven’t been this good since Bendis left. The ending is epic, tragic, heroic, brilliant and creative.
Hope Brisson stays in the X Men books.

This book is unpretentious, has a great cast and is a lot of fun. Kid Loki, Valkyrie, Anabelle Riggs, Trog, Skurge.
Cullen Bunn has to be one of the more underrated writers around. He has managed to make Thunderstrike and to some extent Angela interesting.
As good as its title.

Jeff Lemire has done the impossible, make the Sentry absolutely fascinating. I can’t wait to see where the character goes next.

The Avengers haven’t been this classic and this good probably since the Englehart and Roger Stern era.
You have the Winter Guard, the Squadron Supreme, Atlantis Attacking, the Black Panther meeting with international heroes.
The only weak point for me seems to be the Savage She Hulk angle to She Hulk. I hope Jennifer can go back to being She Hulk all the time, not boring Jennifer no mindless Hulk, bur what the character has always been.
The Coulson subplot was chilling. more

Cates made the Inhumans good again. Yes, the ending is rushed and too easy, but Cates made the Royal Family compelling and dramatic again after their awful mishandling by Marvel these last few years. Vitally, Black Bolt is not all powerful anymore. Look forward to seeing them in Cates’ Guardians of the Galaxy run.

Very thin story happening here. Not much substance and it all went down on a boat ride that took 10 minutes to read and still can't tell you what's so important about this issue. Then the kiss out of nowhere?? Not Soule's finest work. If the mystery has something to offer then it needed more.
Mcniven can't be matched. Shalvey does his best with the fight scenes but it's a huge drop in "quality" due to unmatched styles. Laura Martin's colors were nice though.
That was a disappointment. more

Wolverine drives a boat and kills some guys. That’s all that happens in this issue. Skip

Still awful. Irrelevant, disjointed, terrible characterization, characters thrown together for no reason, unfocused. The only thing that gives some dignity to this story is Mike Deodato, as bad a fit as his style is for this. Shame on me for not jumping ship. Has to be one of the worst comics of the year.

I have to admit, the story in this issue improved. It's gone from abhorrently bad to just dull and uninteresting. Progress was made!

The plot-holes present in this story that remains lackluster have never been more jarring than with a Lois Lane who would leave her son without second thoughts with an individual, who I reiterate for what feels like the nth time, WAS AN ENEMY of theirs the last time they encountered him. Jor-El never had a moment of redemption or contrition as Mr. X or did anything to even remotely position him as anything other than an antagonist towards his son, so having both of Jon's parents accept him as his guardian is ridiculous.

If the premise behind the only plot development an issue actually had is so dumb it makes said development unbelievable, is there any point to the issue? If you ask me, I'd say there is not.

Rather than showing the reunion of Lois Lane and Superman as a momentous occassion it felt like an unremarkable event without any impact. A missed opportunity seeing as it did nothing with what was something fans demanded. In fact stating Lois needed to be away from her family does not even deliver what fans clamored, it's the exact opposite. The Superman Family as built up in the previous volume was great and allowed for growth on each of its members, this decision is a regression in every sense of the word.

I'll end this by saying that just how Superman appeared to reminisce about the good old days looking at the framed article Lois wrote about "The Death of Superman", I also miss the days when the writing for such a storied character was not garbage. Even if that story is the moment when death lost all power in comics, it is markedly better than any of the crap bendis is crapping out for Superman.

The art was good, only worthwhile thing in the issue. Not enough to merit buying this. more

incredibly stupid. so.. your wife and son left in a hurry one night to go into outer space against your wishes... you lost contact with them.. they've been gone for months and now the wife is back without the kid and doesn't even tell you... because she just wants to write?

oh, but hey, she got super-laid and so she definitely wants him to come back again..

utterly devoid of value. maybe 1-2 panels weren't bad, if only the story didn't drag them down to the pits

from a base of 6, this gets a rating of: 1.
-2 because: the stupidest storyline ever?
-2 because: Lois and Jon were great.. before Bendis....
-1 because: can't even imagine how Bendis thought this would be cool

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