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Imperial
Visionary writer Jonathan Hickman (Ultimate Spider-Man, Secret Wars) sets his sights on Marvel’s cosmos!
A sweeping Marvel cosmic event resets the balance of power in the Marvel Universe! IMPERIAL is a story of intrigue, mysteries and war that takes place against the backdrop of the formation of new galactic order. Against the fallout of someone mysteriously killing the rulers of the Marvel galactic empires, the fires of war are lit! As that conflict simmers, Nova and Star-Lord race to discover who is behind all these evil acts — a journey that takes them to the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda! Featuring Hulks, Black Panthers, Guardians and cosmic kings and queens, it’s a must-read saga from the scribe who reshaped mutantkind with HOUSE OF X/POWERS OF X!
COLLECTING: Imperial (2025) #1-4, Imperial War: Nova - Centurion (2025) #1, Imperial War: Planet She-Hulk (2025) #1, Imperial War: Imperial Guardians (2025) #1, Imperial War: Exiles (2025) #1, Imperial War: Panther Rex (2025) #1
Written by Jonathan Hickman, Mat Groom, Jed Mackay, Stephanie Phillips & More
Penciled by Iban Coello, Federico Vicentini & More
A sweeping Marvel cosmic event resets the balance of power in the Marvel Universe! IMPERIAL is a story of intrigue, mysteries and war that takes place against the backdrop of the formation of new galactic order. Against the fallout of someone mysteriously killing the rulers of the Marvel galactic empires, the fires of war are lit! As that conflict simmers, Nova and Star-Lord race to discover who is behind all these evil acts — a journey that takes them to the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda! Featuring Hulks, Black Panthers, Guardians and cosmic kings and queens, it’s a must-read saga from the scribe who reshaped mutantkind with HOUSE OF X/POWERS OF X!
COLLECTING: Imperial (2025) #1-4, Imperial War: Nova - Centurion (2025) #1, Imperial War: Planet She-Hulk (2025) #1, Imperial War: Imperial Guardians (2025) #1, Imperial War: Exiles (2025) #1, Imperial War: Panther Rex (2025) #1
Written by Jonathan Hickman, Mat Groom, Jed Mackay, Stephanie Phillips & More
Penciled by Iban Coello, Federico Vicentini & More
312 pages, Paperback
First published March 24, 2026
About the author
Jonathan Hickman
1,238 books2,087 followersJonathan Hickman is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for creating the Image Comics series The Nightly News, The Manhattan Projects and East of West, as well as working on Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, FF, and S.H.I.E.L.D. titles. In 2012, Hickman ended his run on the Fantastic Four titles to write The Avengers and The New Avengers, as part the "Marvel NOW!" relaunch. In 2013, Hickman wrote a six-part miniseries, Infinity, plus Avengers tie-ins for Marvel Comics. In 2015, he wrote the crossover event Secret Wars. - Wikipedia
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March 24, 2026
Just so you know, I’m not really into cosmic stuff – I only read this series because of Hickman... who got me interested in it – which was the least I expected – but who hasn’t exactly sparked an unbridled love of intergalactic conspiracies in me either.
For a start, I’m not familiar with three-quarters of the cast or the races/empires involved, which greatly limits my potential for enjoyment. Secondly, the antagonist of the plot really took me by surprise. Really. To the point where it seems out of character to me, but I can’t say for sure for fear of being wrong. To finish on the negatives, whilst the plot is sometimes confusing, the action scenes – and this is terribly true in the final episode of the main series – are almost impossible to follow.
That said, it must be acknowledged that it’s very well put together, that the episodes outside the main storyline fit perfectly into the overall narrative, and that there’s a clear, controlled and interesting ambition.
For a start, I’m not familiar with three-quarters of the cast or the races/empires involved, which greatly limits my potential for enjoyment. Secondly, the antagonist of the plot really took me by surprise. Really. To the point where it seems out of character to me, but I can’t say for sure for fear of being wrong. To finish on the negatives, whilst the plot is sometimes confusing, the action scenes – and this is terribly true in the final episode of the main series – are almost impossible to follow.
That said, it must be acknowledged that it’s very well put together, that the episodes outside the main storyline fit perfectly into the overall narrative, and that there’s a clear, controlled and interesting ambition.
April 6, 2026
Entertaining, if sometimes confusing--a typical Hickman joint.
May 16, 2026
A good book. I would have rated this 3.5 stars, but I definitely deserved a round up. I will be honest that main characters i care about are the Hulks. It was great to see the World Breaker back and the return to planet Hulk.
A number of head of states have been killed by a unique poison, including the Hulk's son Hiro-Kala. Leaving (Planet Hulk) Sakaar En Nevo in the hands of his cousin, the She Hulk, Hulk is going to find some answers from the other galactic empires. Everyone has lost someone. Nobody trusts anyone can war be far? However who pulling the strings?
This book is more of a starting point rather than the main event. Empires will be reset, a number of series will be launched. Especially the Planet She Hulk. The book finishes with a variant cover gallery.
A number of head of states have been killed by a unique poison, including the Hulk's son Hiro-Kala. Leaving (Planet Hulk) Sakaar En Nevo in the hands of his cousin, the She Hulk, Hulk is going to find some answers from the other galactic empires. Everyone has lost someone. Nobody trusts anyone can war be far? However who pulling the strings?
This book is more of a starting point rather than the main event. Empires will be reset, a number of series will be launched. Especially the Planet She Hulk. The book finishes with a variant cover gallery.
November 9, 2025
I don't know man, this didn't shake up as much as they said it would. They promised a new status quo to reboot the cosmic stage of marvel, but a lot of this feels like a return to days past. To say I expected a lot with Hickman's name on the cover is a understatement.
Too many players in cannon fodder action scenes, & motivations all over the place both for the actual conflict and what's to come after. I don't think Star Lord would act the way he has (he's never loved or respected his father) but I do like T'challa stepping back up. I guess we're happy the lnhumans are back??? This largely was a miss for me, bombastic space action aside. We'll see which of these cosmic books actually hold up after a year, but for now, this didn't live up to Hickman's name being on the event
Too many players in cannon fodder action scenes, & motivations all over the place both for the actual conflict and what's to come after. I don't think Star Lord would act the way he has (he's never loved or respected his father) but I do like T'challa stepping back up. I guess we're happy the lnhumans are back??? This largely was a miss for me, bombastic space action aside. We'll see which of these cosmic books actually hold up after a year, but for now, this didn't live up to Hickman's name being on the event
November 15, 2025
Young Avengers: Return of the Status Quo. I guess the Young Avengers are getting the band back together? And the very dull Inhumans are back? What a miss of a series. I love Hickman's work, but this just screams mediocre movie cleanup.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 25, 2025
I read this as it was coming out, but I barely grasped it/cared what was happening. Hoping it reads better as a trade.
November 2, 2025
I'm confused? But I think I liked it?
Review of advance copy
3.5
This was super disappointing. I liked how it started, but the main story was just a mess. The storytelling in the art was a big factor. I didn't even know what was happening sometimes. It was like Hickman had an outline and they just decided the outline was enough.
Some of the tie-ins were pretty decent. Some were terrible. Why even do those as several #1s?
For an an attempt at a new status quo, now that it's over, it doesn't feel particularly relevant.
This was super disappointing. I liked how it started, but the main story was just a mess. The storytelling in the art was a big factor. I didn't even know what was happening sometimes. It was like Hickman had an outline and they just decided the outline was enough.
Some of the tie-ins were pretty decent. Some were terrible. Why even do those as several #1s?
For an an attempt at a new status quo, now that it's over, it doesn't feel particularly relevant.
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March 16, 2026When Imperial was announced, my main concern was that it felt a little presumptuous for Hickman to bring his big reinvention stick to the space side of Marvel not long after Al Ewing had already given it a thorough retooling across the similarly named Empyre and assorted other titles. Having read it, I'm more worried that the once-mighty Hickman engine is on the verge of running down entirely. Sure, G.O.D.S. didn't reshape the cosmic entities and magical world with the same conviction or sureness of touch as he displayed on FF, Avengers or the mutants, but it still had some excellent stuff on its more human side and, like Ultimate Spider-Man, showed the heart readers sometimes miss for all the ingenious clockwork. Imperial, though, too often feels at once like Hickman by numbers in some respects, and the anti-Hickman in others. In the first category, consider that opening scene with unseen players engaged in a subtext-heavy game of what might as well be called space-chess, exchanging portentous statements; bear in mind that one of them will later turn out to be the most obvious possible candidate. Against that, think about the way Hickman's great reinventions always made it feel as though your brain had just got slightly bigger when he pulled off a reveal and made you realise the amazing possibilities that had been lying unsuspected within familiar characters and situations – then contrast the changes enacted here, which are often either full-on Byrne-style resets, or else status quo switches we've seen tried before: [SPOILERS to end of paragraph]: the Kree and Skrulls are back at each other throats; Peter Quill has his dad's throne again; T'challa is back in charge of Wakanda; the Inhuman royal family are restored. Sure, there's a nice modern nod in the various ways that revealing the shocking truth achieves almost nothing, and the layers of conspiracy were nicely nested, but next to Reed's council or Krakoa, it's thin gruel.
On top of all that, the pacing of the story is shot, and its logic occasionally warped, by the insistence on pausing between the last two issues of a four-issue mini for one-shots setting up five spin-offs. Which, to add insult to injury, have all already been cancelled after half the ten issues Marvel insisted they were now going to give new books to find their feet, except for Exiles, which isn't happening at all. And which, to be fair, did look the worst of the lot, the only one I had no interest whatsoever in reading, and that despite featuring the sole glimpse of Rocket and/or Groot in the whole 300+ pages of this, an attitude to the most popular Marvel space characters which may go some way to explaining Imperial's underperformance. I've always found Shi'ar politics one of the most tedious of the recurring Marvel stories, and have never met anyone who expressed the contrary opinion, but given the way it kept coming up, I assumed someone out there must disagree. Well, if this attempt will never see the light of day, maybe not. But that aside, these teasers all make the abortive titles look fairly promising, even when they feature characters in whom my baseline interest is nil, such as Darkhawk, or Nova (not even Marvel's best Green Lantern knock-off, but Jed MacKay writes that one, and waifs and strays have always been his strongest suit). If anything, it's the characters I like by default where I notice the problems more; T'challa and Shuri insisting covert assassination is not the Wakandan way is plain silly when a recent series saw him deposed precisely for his covert sleeper agent programme, and as for Planet She-Hulk... OK, let's not even get into the complete lack of alignment between Hulk here, back in warlord mode, and the completely different horror tone of his own title in recent years. Hulks gonna Hulk, there's a lot of different personalities in there, these things happen in shared universes, let's just wave a hand and agree that he got a week off from skulking through backwoods monster stories and hotwired a spaceship for some family time. But even then, it makes bugger-all sense for him to head off to investigate a murder and deal with intergalactic diplomacy, while trained lawyer Jen stays behind and tries to keep the peace on a barbarian planet. Does it make for an amusing fish out of water story? Sure. But you'd have hoped professional writers could have found a better way to set that up than simply having two characters each take on a task for which the other is obviously better suited. Between such noticeable contrivances and the lack of support for the new line this event was supposed to launch, it's hard to evade a sense that Marvel's doldrums are deep enough to eclipse whatever may remain of Hickman's former magic touch.
(Edelweiss ARC)
On top of all that, the pacing of the story is shot, and its logic occasionally warped, by the insistence on pausing between the last two issues of a four-issue mini for one-shots setting up five spin-offs. Which, to add insult to injury, have all already been cancelled after half the ten issues Marvel insisted they were now going to give new books to find their feet, except for Exiles, which isn't happening at all. And which, to be fair, did look the worst of the lot, the only one I had no interest whatsoever in reading, and that despite featuring the sole glimpse of Rocket and/or Groot in the whole 300+ pages of this, an attitude to the most popular Marvel space characters which may go some way to explaining Imperial's underperformance. I've always found Shi'ar politics one of the most tedious of the recurring Marvel stories, and have never met anyone who expressed the contrary opinion, but given the way it kept coming up, I assumed someone out there must disagree. Well, if this attempt will never see the light of day, maybe not. But that aside, these teasers all make the abortive titles look fairly promising, even when they feature characters in whom my baseline interest is nil, such as Darkhawk, or Nova (not even Marvel's best Green Lantern knock-off, but Jed MacKay writes that one, and waifs and strays have always been his strongest suit). If anything, it's the characters I like by default where I notice the problems more; T'challa and Shuri insisting covert assassination is not the Wakandan way is plain silly when a recent series saw him deposed precisely for his covert sleeper agent programme, and as for Planet She-Hulk... OK, let's not even get into the complete lack of alignment between Hulk here, back in warlord mode, and the completely different horror tone of his own title in recent years. Hulks gonna Hulk, there's a lot of different personalities in there, these things happen in shared universes, let's just wave a hand and agree that he got a week off from skulking through backwoods monster stories and hotwired a spaceship for some family time. But even then, it makes bugger-all sense for him to head off to investigate a murder and deal with intergalactic diplomacy, while trained lawyer Jen stays behind and tries to keep the peace on a barbarian planet. Does it make for an amusing fish out of water story? Sure. But you'd have hoped professional writers could have found a better way to set that up than simply having two characters each take on a task for which the other is obviously better suited. Between such noticeable contrivances and the lack of support for the new line this event was supposed to launch, it's hard to evade a sense that Marvel's doldrums are deep enough to eclipse whatever may remain of Hickman's former magic touch.
(Edelweiss ARC)
May 6, 2026
As with most Hickman comics, I have a lot of thoughts.
First thought is that as someone who absolutely loves Hickman, Marvel is going to lose him. They recently have been giving him the opportunity to write these awesome, paradigm changing events and then either cutting them too short or not having them matter (for the awesome G.O.D.S., it was both).
Second thought is that while I enjoyed Imperial, it felt much more like the movie Age of Ultron then a real comic event. It is very obvious it is just setting up for more things to come, and while that is completely fine in the general sense, it really did come across as nothing more for Imperial. It felt somewhat rushed and that it didn't let events settle, and I will admit there were parts of the story that didn't seem to connect, such as when T'Challa and Hulk are all of a sudden allies without explaining how that really happened or how they are now on the same ship. Saying all this, I still enjoyed the comics and think it was worth reading.
The third thought though is how hilarious it is that it feels this comic entirely dismissed the Death of the Inhumans limited run. When Marvel decided they were done playing with the Inhumans when they got the movie rights back to X-Men, they decided to rather cynically kill off everyone except a few notable characters like Black Bolt, Medusa, etc. This also meant the Inhumans have barely played into the 616 universe for, not kidding, almost a decade (which is a shame due to them being rather interesting). Death of the Inhumans had Ronan the Accuser being killed as well as Maximus, but guess who returns in Imperial with no explanations for why they are returned to life? Ronan and Maximus. Which in fairness, I do think it is better for these characters to be around then not. Just very odd they are just back with no explanation.
Hopefully this comic in retrospect will be looked upon more favorably as the new Cosmic settles in. While enjoyable, it is hard to judge due to it priming a new story rather then telling a complete one.
First thought is that as someone who absolutely loves Hickman, Marvel is going to lose him. They recently have been giving him the opportunity to write these awesome, paradigm changing events and then either cutting them too short or not having them matter (for the awesome G.O.D.S., it was both).
Second thought is that while I enjoyed Imperial, it felt much more like the movie Age of Ultron then a real comic event. It is very obvious it is just setting up for more things to come, and while that is completely fine in the general sense, it really did come across as nothing more for Imperial. It felt somewhat rushed and that it didn't let events settle, and I will admit there were parts of the story that didn't seem to connect, such as when T'Challa and Hulk are all of a sudden allies without explaining how that really happened or how they are now on the same ship. Saying all this, I still enjoyed the comics and think it was worth reading.
The third thought though is how hilarious it is that it feels this comic entirely dismissed the Death of the Inhumans limited run. When Marvel decided they were done playing with the Inhumans when they got the movie rights back to X-Men, they decided to rather cynically kill off everyone except a few notable characters like Black Bolt, Medusa, etc. This also meant the Inhumans have barely played into the 616 universe for, not kidding, almost a decade (which is a shame due to them being rather interesting). Death of the Inhumans had Ronan the Accuser being killed as well as Maximus, but guess who returns in Imperial with no explanations for why they are returned to life? Ronan and Maximus. Which in fairness, I do think it is better for these characters to be around then not. Just very odd they are just back with no explanation.
Hopefully this comic in retrospect will be looked upon more favorably as the new Cosmic settles in. While enjoyable, it is hard to judge due to it priming a new story rather then telling a complete one.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Review of advance copy
💥Lets get Cosmic!💥
IMPERIAL written by Jonathan Hickman, art by Federico Vicentini & Iban Coello, with additional writers and artists on the Imperial War chapters.
IMPERIAL will be released as a graphic novel in March but I collected the single issues as they came out so have the full set of nine.
IMPERIAL is a cosmic event in the Marvel Universe,and is a four issue mini-series (issues 1 and 4 are extra length) and sandwiched between issues 3 & 4 are five Imperial War one-shots: Black Panther, Planet She-Hulk, Exiles, Nova: Centurion & Imperial Guardians.
The Imperial War issues are launching points for new comic book series and although you can read IMPERIAL without them, some of the issues do have crucial plot points that would make reading the final issue a more bewildering experience.
In a nutshell it is an event drawing various galactic empires together in a story of mystery, treachery and war. Galactic leaders and kings have been poisoned and die leading to the unrest, accusations, the break-up of the Galactic Union & war.
For long term Marvel fans there are a lot of familiar races and galactic powers. The Shi'ar Empire, the Kree and the Skulls, the Wakandans led by Black Panther, the Spartoi led by Star-Lord and his father, and more characters than you can shake a stick at, including Hulk, Brawn & She-Hulk, Nova, the last surviving member of the Nova Corps, and a few surprise appearances.
It's a murder mystery with intergalactic politics and bombastic space action. Jonathan Hickman does a good job of pulling all the threads together into a coherent whole to create the new status quo in the cosmic Marvel Universe.
The artwork in the main issues is suitably spectacular to match the events and each team in the Imperial War comics has their own style which comes together quite nicely as a whole.
One of the better event series in recent years.
IMPERIAL written by Jonathan Hickman, art by Federico Vicentini & Iban Coello, with additional writers and artists on the Imperial War chapters.
IMPERIAL will be released as a graphic novel in March but I collected the single issues as they came out so have the full set of nine.
IMPERIAL is a cosmic event in the Marvel Universe,and is a four issue mini-series (issues 1 and 4 are extra length) and sandwiched between issues 3 & 4 are five Imperial War one-shots: Black Panther, Planet She-Hulk, Exiles, Nova: Centurion & Imperial Guardians.
The Imperial War issues are launching points for new comic book series and although you can read IMPERIAL without them, some of the issues do have crucial plot points that would make reading the final issue a more bewildering experience.
In a nutshell it is an event drawing various galactic empires together in a story of mystery, treachery and war. Galactic leaders and kings have been poisoned and die leading to the unrest, accusations, the break-up of the Galactic Union & war.
For long term Marvel fans there are a lot of familiar races and galactic powers. The Shi'ar Empire, the Kree and the Skulls, the Wakandans led by Black Panther, the Spartoi led by Star-Lord and his father, and more characters than you can shake a stick at, including Hulk, Brawn & She-Hulk, Nova, the last surviving member of the Nova Corps, and a few surprise appearances.
It's a murder mystery with intergalactic politics and bombastic space action. Jonathan Hickman does a good job of pulling all the threads together into a coherent whole to create the new status quo in the cosmic Marvel Universe.
The artwork in the main issues is suitably spectacular to match the events and each team in the Imperial War comics has their own style which comes together quite nicely as a whole.
One of the better event series in recent years.
May 15, 2026
The Hickman crossovers continue to baffle me -- sometimes I love them, sometimes I find them not incomprehensible as just inaccessible. Admittedly, my inroad to this has been Hickman's recent Alien vs. Marvel series + Coates' run on Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda, which I remember enjoying quite a bit. I haven't been keeping up on Nova or Star Lord of Gamorra or anything pertaining to the Hulks being in space (while I got into House of M and Civil War a bit in college, I remember World War Hulk being something I never effectively sunk my teeth into).
All that being said, I was hoping the plot would coalesce here or a character might emerge as an emotional center. I really didn't feel like either of those happened -- the end result of this run was murky, I was left more confused about the Inhumans and why they are depicted as they are in this story (as antagonists?), and I was really baffled that all the threads around Xavier escaping on Earth culminates simply in his showing up here to save his daughter (haven't we seen this plot 1-2 times before involving her and/or Lilandra?). If the art was clearer and the visuals more arresting, and if there was any sense of major character growth, I would have been able to hang with this, but as it is...I'm not sure who I would ever tell "go read Imperial, it's right up your alley!"
All that being said, I was hoping the plot would coalesce here or a character might emerge as an emotional center. I really didn't feel like either of those happened -- the end result of this run was murky, I was left more confused about the Inhumans and why they are depicted as they are in this story (as antagonists?), and I was really baffled that all the threads around Xavier escaping on Earth culminates simply in his showing up here to save his daughter (haven't we seen this plot 1-2 times before involving her and/or Lilandra?). If the art was clearer and the visuals more arresting, and if there was any sense of major character growth, I would have been able to hang with this, but as it is...I'm not sure who I would ever tell "go read Imperial, it's right up your alley!"
Review of advance copy
I freaking love when Jonathan Hickman gets to go full Jonathan Hickman on something. He made the Fantastic Four something special, he kickstarted the Krakoan Age, and now he's out to revolutionize Marvel cosmic with a tale that's both whodunnit (and whydunnit) and political thriller as everything collapses on an intergalactic scale and it's up to all your favourite cosmic heroes like Star-Lord and Nova to try and find out who, why, and how to fix it.
This is very well done. It's cinematic, and engaging, and although the multiple chapters thing gets a bit grating, I like that Hickman manages to sweep up everyone that's in space right now and make them important, from bit-players to the King of Space himself, Teddy Altman.
The one-shots that were meant to launch new cosmic ongoings (alas, sales are a bastard, but I can love what we got) are also included here for completeness, all of which were compelling enough for me to want to read the series they were launching.
Hickman's gonna Hickman, and I'm here for it every time. Just a shame that the aftermath from this wasn't as big as it should have been.
This is very well done. It's cinematic, and engaging, and although the multiple chapters thing gets a bit grating, I like that Hickman manages to sweep up everyone that's in space right now and make them important, from bit-players to the King of Space himself, Teddy Altman.
The one-shots that were meant to launch new cosmic ongoings (alas, sales are a bastard, but I can love what we got) are also included here for completeness, all of which were compelling enough for me to want to read the series they were launching.
Hickman's gonna Hickman, and I'm here for it every time. Just a shame that the aftermath from this wasn't as big as it should have been.
November 1, 2025
I enjoyed this far more than I anticipated. I like Cosmic Marvel but got my fill after Annhiliation and its various sequels
This largely leaves the deity-class level characters out of the story and focuses on the various galactic empires. What I enjoy is the cohesion it brought into a tapestry of sorts from the chaos of seemingly disparate titles.
Pak's Planet Hulk, Coates' Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda, Ewing/Slott's Empyre, Cate's Death of the Inhumans, etc.
For a very long time, I felt Ewing was the heir apparent for Marvel space. But Hickman shows he can still show a few tricks
This largely leaves the deity-class level characters out of the story and focuses on the various galactic empires. What I enjoy is the cohesion it brought into a tapestry of sorts from the chaos of seemingly disparate titles.
Pak's Planet Hulk, Coates' Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda, Ewing/Slott's Empyre, Cate's Death of the Inhumans, etc.
For a very long time, I felt Ewing was the heir apparent for Marvel space. But Hickman shows he can still show a few tricks
March 23, 2026
Great artwork, but this story was too busy and didn’t stick the landing for me. The plot lines that were interesting felt rushed/unfinished. Richard Rider, Shuri and Star Lord’s storyline was the strongest of the entire event, but even that felt like it wasn’t fully fleshed out. Wiccan and Hulkling were underutilized, literally stood on a rock in space inside a bubble most of the time. Jonathan Hickman is one of my go to writers when deciding on stories to read, but this one wasn’t giving me the hook I needed to feel satisfied by the end. Great cast of characters just underutilized in my opinion.
May 3, 2026
This was a great comics event... right up till "Imperial" issue 4. The art had too much going on in each panel, and so was difficult to follow. Overall I felt that the story was building up really good... then sort of fizzled at the end. We find out who is actually pulling all the strings fairly early, so no big reveals in the final issues, and no real consequences for the ones who caused all the trouble. But some major changes to a lot of the empires (Kree, Skrull, Shiar, etc.) in the Marvel Universe.
November 15, 2025
Marvel's space operas get thrown for a loop when there's some assassinations. It's solid. The art was just OK. Way too chaotic and just too much crammed into every panel for me. The one thing that didn't fit for me, was the Hulk's appearance as the Worldbreaker. He's been on Earth doing the horror thing with Phillip Kennedy Johnson for about 3 years now. Not sure how he wound up back on Sakaar.
May 21, 2026
A cosmic shakeup that really just feels like reverting to status quo. I know there are a lot of moving pieces involved, but I was annoyed at how much Hickman sidelined Billy and Teddy. They're arguably going to be two of the most affected characters coming out of this event, but they're barely present.
October 26, 2025
"Can anyone tell the difference...
...when you bite the lies hard enough to taste the greater good?"
Good lord.
That's an actual line someone wrote.
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December 30, 2025(read all the chapters separately)
Review of advance copy
So this series was kinda a hot mess. I'm so glad I decided to buy it! 🙃
May 13, 2026
An ending that feels more real politics thanks comic hero/scifi outcome.
With Hickman being Hickman, a little disappointing in not being cutting edge.
With Hickman being Hickman, a little disappointing in not being cutting edge.
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