High-octane comic book adventures spinning out of the hit video game sensation! Explore the timestream-entangled world of MARVEL RIVALS with your favorite heroes and villains, including icons like Spider-Man and Venom - and new sensations like Squirrel Girl, Peni Parker, Luna Snow and Jeff the Land Shark! In Tokyo 2099, the time rift has disrupted the Web of Life and Destiny, leaving the world's heroes to battle it out over the best way to fix it! When Krakoa throws a Hellfire Gala, the champions of the Multiverse assemble in their finery to wine and dine the night away - but who invited Ultron?! Head back in time to ancient Japan and feast your eyes on reimagined legends, featuring costumes designed by superstar Peach Momoko! And Knull, the horrifying King in Black, exerts his symbiotic supremacy! Collecting Marvel Rivals #1, Marvel Hellfire Gala #1, Marvel King In Black #1, Marvel Ignite #1 And Material From Marvel Swimsuit Friends, Foes & Rivals #1.
I did not enjoy this book. If you have a book based on a fighting game it should have some decent fights in it right? Well thus book does not.
Plot (I say plot very loosely) of each story is just to give the reason for the fight. Then battles are all over the place and it is impossible to enjoy any of it cos something is going on everywhere. I would have preferred if each was shorter and was a showdown between two characters. Way more quality than quantity. Unfortunately they gave gone for high quantity with low quality.
Thus is really an advertisement for Jeff the Land Shark. Selling points he is cute and overpowered. The book finishes with variant cover gallery and a short (two page) silent story.
Marvel Rivals is my most played game in the past year so I was really excited to start reading this comic, only to be disappointed pretty early on.
This book is just a collection of smaller stories. It felt like I was thrown into a narrative without context or conclusion. However, the writers dumb it down a lot through Galacta. For some reason, they have her make a summary every two pages. At times, it really took me out of the story.
It's also sad there are so many characters in the game that don't make it to the comic. Squirrel Girl, Thing, Rocket Raccoon are in almost every story yet Invisible Woman or Mr. Fantastic are nowhere to be seen. I did really like how they used Jeff. Between the battles and discussions, it was a nice break to see Jeff the Land Shark just be cute and play around
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
3.5 stars, rounded down Having never played the game, but being a huge fan of Marvel (and the variant covers these issues released) intrigued me enough to read this collection. With that in mind, I was completely lost, I felt like I jumped into the story with no background of what was going on, and no real conclusion to things that went on. I did enjoy the artwork throughout, and the unique takes on the characters were refreshing as well. The last half (King in Black and Ignite) were the best books with the best artwork. This whole collection just felt like a mess though. Interesting read, but chaotic and hard to follow if you don't play the game, I guess.
Je m'attendais pas à grand chose mais c'était quand même décevant
Pas très bien traduit et pas super intéressant, je m'attendais à un comics qui parle un peu du lore du jeu mais au final c'est juste 《 On va faire comme si c'était une partie de Marvel Rivals lol 》
I like Rivals but I don't play it, so admittedly this was probably not really 'for' me. I did not like Galacta's narration at ALL and found that it massively downgraded the stories. The only one I really liked was the Peach Momoko one with Psylocke, the Punisher, and Peni.
This comic was amazing as a big fan of the game I excited when I saw they were making marvel rivals comics and it was worth the wait this comic was so good the story isn’t extremely good but the art is amazing and the story is fun an overall fun and great comic to read
The art was fun but the story was mid. I want more funny dialogue between the characters idc about trying to give lore reasons for why they're fighting!