SUPER FAST REVIEW:A bit confusing at times but I mostly got it. It’s very actiony throughout and HOLY SHIT THAT ENDING!4/5

Even with the universe on the cusp of destruction, Steve Rogers can't get over the raging Hate-on he has for Reed Richards, Tony Stark, and the rest of those egg heads in the Illuminati. This volume focuses on Rogers' attempts to bring the Illuminati to justice, while Bobby Da Costa and his more chill, practical team of Avengers tries to broker peace so that everybody can go back to saving the universe. This could easily have been another Civil War or Avengers vs X-Men, with all the heroes actin...

Do you know what one of the biggest problems I have with the Marvel universe?Reed and Sue Richards snot-nosed, creepy, precocious smarty-pants kids being able to solve the most complex far-reaching issues facing the multi-verse.Franklin (Come, Galactus, take a walk with me.) Richards:Valeria (Child of the Corn) Richards:Now, she’s handing out advice to Uncle Victor as in “von Doom”. “Uncle Victor(!)” (I just vomited a little in my mouth.) Basically, she passes on the same fortune cookie kernel

Doc Strange is a creep and Doc Doom's quest is giving me those Uh-Oh feelings. Things are moving in dark directions. Old Cap still sucks.

3.5 starsI'm confused utterly,again, but I love the stratagems and fighting with all my favourite characters, so all in all very good and going somewhere I hope.

Man, this series better not end up crapping the bed.

This was such a great volume! It starts off with Bobby forming his multiversal team and getting others who stayed behind well caught up on all that s happening and what their response will be and then the spies meet Tony and we learn whats going on with him which is fascinating. Thor and others in their multiversal travels meet Black Priests and their leader which was interesting and then finally its Steve vs Reed and we see them slug it out with their various players, Hulk vs Hulk, so many team...

It's disappointing that when Steve Rogers finally starts showing his age that he reacts by turning into a bitter bastard who just wants to attack everyone smarter than him and refuses to listen to anyone who contradicts what he believes no matter how sane and logical they're being. In other words, he's just another old white American, and I'm pretty sure he's spending his days watching Fox News.Hickman's run has a lot of stuff that I've gotten increasingly tired of in big crossover events, espec...

Another sprawling entry in Hickman's ambitious Avengers project, still mostly set-up with a teensy bit of payoff.I guess one way to differentiate this arc of Smart Avengers v. Punch Things Avengers is the addition of...Junior Avengers? At any rate, Sunspot splashes some cash and funds a third faction with the goal of reminding the squabbling Steve Rogers, Reed Richards et al. that it used to be about the musi- I mean, the superheroing, man! with predictable results (stuff gets punched).Meanwhile...

So, now that the basic game board has been set in volume 1, Time Runs Out, Vol. 2 begins executing the rest of the Jonathan Hickman's long-running, convoluted chess match. And if I'm going to use a chess analogy, then let it be from Star Trek, where their chess games are freaking tridimensional! Here's the players - the Avengers, operating under the aegis of S.H.I.E.L.D and led by Old Man Cap (somewhere during the run of the solo Captain America title, Rogers was drained of the super-soldier ser...

Fun.Crazy, overwhelming, a bit hard to follow, but...mostly fun.Honestly, though? I'm just looking forward to finishing this out, and moving on.Why, you ask?Well, because I absolutely hate Jurassic Cap. Or Old Man Steve. Doesn't matter what you're calling him...he sucks.He's like that ancient dude in your neighborhood, who stands on the front lawn in his bathrobe, and bitches at the kids riding by on their bikes. Why does he bitch?*shrugs*They're dinging the bells on their bikes 'too loudly', or...

Solid story, good art but I'm ready to be done with this dour 5 year running story.

In some ways, this is another take on the Avengers vs. X-Men and Civil War theme of hero versus hero. Except that it's actually pretty good. Except that every side is allowed to have a point, and that there's enough moral grey area to fully cover every party involved. And there's also the major bonus that this is clearly the culmination of a lot of thought and hard work. Why three stars? I'm still getting a little lost in the enormous cast. Just as with the previous volume, this might be at leas...

Roberto DaCosta, head of AIM, leader of the free Avengers resistance movement? How freakin bizarre. I like that he's rallying all the remnant Avengers who aren't still on some crazy blood-oath mission to save the world at any cost... Wait. That can't be right. Aren't *all* of these factions of Avengers and villains (*cough* Cabal, Namor's bastard group of nihilists who are the only ones actually stopping incursions eh?) on separate warpaths to save the 616 and beat on everyone else who're also s...

Im enjoying it but I'm at the stage where I just want Hickman to wrap it up.

This series/story is finally getting kinda sorta better. Still moving at a glacial pace, much of it centering on Steve Rogers and his almost inexplicable hatred for the Illuminati. Captain Marvel comes across as a fascist jerk, though, and Victor von Doom is up to something that may or may not be nefarious.All-in-all, driving forward here. I guess this will end eventually in Secret Wars, but I swear the story line has run as long as World War 2.

Avengers Time Runs Out: volume 2. The build up to the Secret Wars event continues and this volume starts to get things heated up. Continuing to collect both Avengers and the New Avengers series by Jonathan Hickman.AWOL characters from the previous volume now make their appearances. Doctor Strange having a particularly epic reveal. There are now quite a few different factions in play. All with slightly different goals, and none seemingly able to get on with the other. We have grumpy old man Steve...

Jonathan Hickman’s dull Avengers storyline continues in Time Runs Out, Volume 2: dumb Cap is still pissed at the Illuminati and wants to punch them while Sunspot’s preening annoyingly. Still waiting for this “amazing” storyline to pay off! I’m not really interested in anything Sunspot’s doing, which is a shame as he’s in this book quite a lot. Dumb Cap vs the Illuminati has never been remotely compelling and is even less so here. Iron Man in the cage next to Black Swan was awful – Hickman writes...

Ok so I didn't really care that much for vol 1, but I did admit that was because I was fairly confused. I duly admit that I am still a little confused, but no nearly as much as last time. The destruction of multiversal earths continue. There are several teams of Avengers running around-a few of them are even bad. The Illuminati and the Cabal are involved. In fact almost everyone is involved. SHIELD is being run by geriatric Steve Rogers (still not sure what happened to him exactly) and the Falco...

So, awhile back there was a Marvel crossover series called Civil War which is, in my opinion, overrated and dull. A year or so after Super Secret Wars there's Civil War II, which is more universally reviled. But in between is this much better rivalry between the heroes. The disagreements over how to handle the incursions and the impending destruction of the multiverse, not to mention the secrets and betrayals, result in a more realistic (subjectively realistic) dispute between three or more grou...