Adam Kubert

I started to read "Prelude to Infinity" but then the "previously" section seemed so interesting I decided I wanted to start from the beginning. I love "cosmic" stuff and I'm loving this huge crazy plot. The art's good too. The only problem I have with this is Spider-Man. They're writing him like a huge douche and he's not even funny (not even trying to be funny). It's so bad I feel like there must be a reason for it. Like did someone close to him die right before this? Or maybe he's been show more taken over by someone else? It's just not Peter Parker at all. The rest of the dialogue is decent, not bad, just not especially entertaining. show less

I think the worst idea that ever occurred in literature/media is the whole, "if you kill them you're no better than them," thing. It's bullshit, some people need to die (especially in a fictional setting where evil can be a lot more cut and dry). The X-men need to stop with it, especially in this book, other than that one qualm it's a very good graphic novel.

While the volume (like the previous one) in my eyes frequently suffers from what I feel is a common trait of Millar's work, this being a crassness that feels like it is trying too hard to be edgy and just rings phoney instead, from a plotting perspective this is an adroit weaving of classic X-Men and Marvel elements into an exciting and powerful retelling of the X-Men's origins. In particular, I am very fond of the portrayal of Xavier himself here, perhaps the one character with which the show more added 'edginess' really works, consistently and throughout. show less

Tony Stark and Captain America decide they need to reorganise the Avengers to face threats and dangers that seem to be geeing bigger and badder. Sure enough along come a big bad threat, three aliens on Mars who want to either remake the earth or destroy it based on some ancient fascist eugenics alien programming, the sort of sci fi Big Idea Hickman is bringing to bear in his run but which seems divorced from anything, I dunno, relatable? Can you get away with an alien race sending out show more automated drones to wipe out life on every planet until they finds one that can be perfected? I mean, as a project it sounds inhuman, which is presumably the point, but I dunno, aliens are people too, surely?

Anyway untold billions of deaths across the Galaxy and then they reach Earth and because Earth is a setting in a Marvel comic they get stopped, but not before killing millions of people in a few panels. I'm saying the casual incessantly huge body count bothers me in an otherwise crisply executed comic that manages a large cast and lots of ideas and epic sweep really well. Dunno why, I grew up reading 2000AD, they'd cheerfully off millions every few pages. maybe if I reread them now they'd bother me, too. Anyway, I expect there'll be a lot more of this in volumes to come, let's see how long I can stick it. show less