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The End
Mighty Marvel heroes reach the bitter end! Steve Rogers fights for survival in a post-apocalyptic wasteland populated by hordes of Red Skulls! Captain Marvel returns after 50 years in space - but what has become of the world she once called home? Deadpool seems unkillable - but death will fi nd a way! Doctor Strange makes his fi nal journey home - through a cyberpunk sprawl where magic is forgotten! Miles Morales leads civilization's last stand in the one place strong enough to survive - Brooklyn! And Venom travels the length of space and time as the last defender of life in the universe! Experience the end as your favorite heroes take their fi nal bow!
COLLECTING: CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE END, CAPTAIN MARVEL: THE END, DEADPOOL: THE END, DOCTOR STRANGE: THE END, MILES MORALES: THE END and VENOM: THE END.
COLLECTING: CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE END, CAPTAIN MARVEL: THE END, DEADPOOL: THE END, DOCTOR STRANGE: THE END, MILES MORALES: THE END and VENOM: THE END.
200 pages, Paperback
First published August 25, 2020
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About the author
Saladin Ahmed
480 books1,770 followersSaladin Ahmed was born in Detroit and raised in a working-class, Arab American enclave in Dearborn, MI.
His short stories have been nominated for the Nebula and Campbell awards, and have appeared in Year's Best Fantasy and numerous other magazines, anthologies, and podcasts, as well as being translated into five foreign languages. He is represented by Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency. THRONE OF THE CRESCENT MOON is his first novel.
Saladin lives near Detroit with his wife and twin children.
His short stories have been nominated for the Nebula and Campbell awards, and have appeared in Year's Best Fantasy and numerous other magazines, anthologies, and podcasts, as well as being translated into five foreign languages. He is represented by Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency. THRONE OF THE CRESCENT MOON is his first novel.
Saladin lives near Detroit with his wife and twin children.
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March 10, 2021
Marvel has had these initiatives in the past where they bring in a creative team to tell the last story of a hero. Here we are with the latest iteration of that. I passed on these when they came out because most of the creative teams looked subpar. Now I've been stuck at home for two months with no new comics and I've been trying to support my local comic book shop so I'm trying to scrape the bottom of the barrel of what they still have complete runs of. My initial instincts were correct that most of these were terrible.
Miles Morales: The End by Saladin Ahmed & Damian Scott - ★
Miles still protects Brooklyn in a future where giant germs have destroyed the rest of the world. I was expecting better given Saladin Ahmed writes Miles's adventures every month. When I opened this up and saw Damian Scott did the art, I knew I was in trouble. As usual, I couldn't tell what was going on in his graffiti inspired art. The action scenes are terrible. They might as well just be splashes of color in a panel. I could not make out what was going on at all. All those grossly exaggerated appendages and features. At some point, as an artist, you'd think you'd take an anatomy class. It's like reading a comic drawn by a caricature artist. This can be filed directly in the waste bin.
Venom: The End by Adam Warren & Chamba - ★
Jeebus! That was terrible. I couldn't even tell you what it was about. The book is jampack of inane technobabble narration. Something about Venom living for billions of years. The art is decent, but the sequential narration doesn't even exist. It's just a bunch of random panels filled with narration boxes of gibberish. It took a pandemic to get me to finish this. Thank God new comics will be back soon.
Dr. Strange: The End by Leah Williams & Filipe Andrade - ★★
Dr. Strange is the last mystic left on Earth. With the deaths of the rest of the mystics, magic is waning. Honestly this was kind of boring with some wispy, bland art.
Captain Marvel: The End by Kelly Thompson & Carmen Carnero - ★★★★
Captain Marvel returns to Earth 30 years from now after being on the other side of the universe. The Earth has mostly been destroyed leaving a few stragglers that need help. It's not surprising at all that this is the best of the bunch of The End one-shots, since Marvel brought in the regular Captain Marvel creative team. Good story and a fitting end, great art.
Deadpool: The End by Joe Kelly & Mike Hawthorne - ★★★
In typical Deadpool fashion, Deadpool gets 10 different wacky endings. Joe Kelly returns from the 90s with his Bugs Bunny approach to Deadpool. Some jokes land, some fall flat.
Captain America: The End by Eric Larsen - ★★
Cap fights to the last in a world where everyone has been changed into a zombie with the Red Skull's face and racism minus the taste for brains. Erik Larsen attempts to challenge Jack Kirby and fails with his last Captain America story. The art is awful. Larsen has never been the best penciller, altering his style to emulate Kirby hasn't helped.
Miles Morales: The End by Saladin Ahmed & Damian Scott - ★
Miles still protects Brooklyn in a future where giant germs have destroyed the rest of the world. I was expecting better given Saladin Ahmed writes Miles's adventures every month. When I opened this up and saw Damian Scott did the art, I knew I was in trouble. As usual, I couldn't tell what was going on in his graffiti inspired art. The action scenes are terrible. They might as well just be splashes of color in a panel. I could not make out what was going on at all. All those grossly exaggerated appendages and features. At some point, as an artist, you'd think you'd take an anatomy class. It's like reading a comic drawn by a caricature artist. This can be filed directly in the waste bin.
Venom: The End by Adam Warren & Chamba - ★
Jeebus! That was terrible. I couldn't even tell you what it was about. The book is jampack of inane technobabble narration. Something about Venom living for billions of years. The art is decent, but the sequential narration doesn't even exist. It's just a bunch of random panels filled with narration boxes of gibberish. It took a pandemic to get me to finish this. Thank God new comics will be back soon.
Dr. Strange: The End by Leah Williams & Filipe Andrade - ★★
Dr. Strange is the last mystic left on Earth. With the deaths of the rest of the mystics, magic is waning. Honestly this was kind of boring with some wispy, bland art.
Captain Marvel: The End by Kelly Thompson & Carmen Carnero - ★★★★
Captain Marvel returns to Earth 30 years from now after being on the other side of the universe. The Earth has mostly been destroyed leaving a few stragglers that need help. It's not surprising at all that this is the best of the bunch of The End one-shots, since Marvel brought in the regular Captain Marvel creative team. Good story and a fitting end, great art.
Deadpool: The End by Joe Kelly & Mike Hawthorne - ★★★
In typical Deadpool fashion, Deadpool gets 10 different wacky endings. Joe Kelly returns from the 90s with his Bugs Bunny approach to Deadpool. Some jokes land, some fall flat.
Captain America: The End by Eric Larsen - ★★
Cap fights to the last in a world where everyone has been changed into a zombie with the Red Skull's face and racism minus the taste for brains. Erik Larsen attempts to challenge Jack Kirby and fails with his last Captain America story. The art is awful. Larsen has never been the best penciller, altering his style to emulate Kirby hasn't helped.
August 16, 2020
This book collects six one-shot stories by various different creative teams depicting the final chapter in the lives of each character. Taking it one at a time:
Miles Morales
- The story was fine but too much like a dozen other ‘possible future’ stories I’ve read over the years. The artwork was really not to my tastes; too cartoony, too graffiti-like. Story: 3 stars - Artwork: 2 stars
Venom
- What a mess! This story breaks the first rule of sequential art: Show, don’t tell! This one is not only all tell and no show, it’s also a clumsy hodgepodge of ‘high’ SF ideas, none of which are explored enough to be satisfying. It was actually painful to read and I was glad when it was over. The artwork wasn’t great but, to be fair to the artist, he did the best he could with a nightmare script that was basically a thirty page montage. Story: 1 star - Artwork: 3 stars
Captain Marvel
- Easily the best story in this collection. Carol gets a send-off to be proud of and, as she says, it’s a good death. I had a tear in my eye as I read it. The artwork is pretty great, too. #CarolCorpsForever! Story and art: 4 stars
Deadpool
- This one wasn’t bad; all kinds of Deadpool hi-jinks brought to you by my favourite DP scribe, Joe Kelly. It’s only real weakness was that it was a bit of a case of ‘been there, done that, ground-up-and-freebased-the-T-shirt’ when it comes to Wade. The artwork was also perfectly good but nothing amazing. Story and art: 3 stars
Doctor Strange
- Pretty damned good this tale of Stephen Strange as the last remaining mystic on Earth and seriously grumpy old man. The artwork was really nice and the ending was cool. Not quite as good as the Captain Marvel story, but still worth a solid 4 stars.
Captain America
- Erik Larsen does his Jack Kirby impression on this overly wordy, overblown and more than a little silly Cap story. The colour art really didn’t suit the tone of the story, either. Story: 2 stars - Artwork: 3 stars
A pretty mixed bag, like most anthologies. Overall rating: 3 stars
Miles Morales
- The story was fine but too much like a dozen other ‘possible future’ stories I’ve read over the years. The artwork was really not to my tastes; too cartoony, too graffiti-like. Story: 3 stars - Artwork: 2 stars
Venom
- What a mess! This story breaks the first rule of sequential art: Show, don’t tell! This one is not only all tell and no show, it’s also a clumsy hodgepodge of ‘high’ SF ideas, none of which are explored enough to be satisfying. It was actually painful to read and I was glad when it was over. The artwork wasn’t great but, to be fair to the artist, he did the best he could with a nightmare script that was basically a thirty page montage. Story: 1 star - Artwork: 3 stars
Captain Marvel
- Easily the best story in this collection. Carol gets a send-off to be proud of and, as she says, it’s a good death. I had a tear in my eye as I read it. The artwork is pretty great, too. #CarolCorpsForever! Story and art: 4 stars
Deadpool
- This one wasn’t bad; all kinds of Deadpool hi-jinks brought to you by my favourite DP scribe, Joe Kelly. It’s only real weakness was that it was a bit of a case of ‘been there, done that, ground-up-and-freebased-the-T-shirt’ when it comes to Wade. The artwork was also perfectly good but nothing amazing. Story and art: 3 stars
Doctor Strange
- Pretty damned good this tale of Stephen Strange as the last remaining mystic on Earth and seriously grumpy old man. The artwork was really nice and the ending was cool. Not quite as good as the Captain Marvel story, but still worth a solid 4 stars.
Captain America
- Erik Larsen does his Jack Kirby impression on this overly wordy, overblown and more than a little silly Cap story. The colour art really didn’t suit the tone of the story, either. Story: 2 stars - Artwork: 3 stars
A pretty mixed bag, like most anthologies. Overall rating: 3 stars
March 12, 2021
2.5 stars The Capt. Marvel was the only worthwhile story the rest was trash....blah
February 14, 2023
4/10:
As an anthology collection of one-shots centering around a single premise (the death of superheroes), I’m quite disappointed with the varying levels of quality between each story. Two are incredible (Captain Marvel and Miles Morales), two are lame (Captain America and Doctor Strange), and the final two just continue for way too long (Deadpool and Venom).
As an anthology collection of one-shots centering around a single premise (the death of superheroes), I’m quite disappointed with the varying levels of quality between each story. Two are incredible (Captain Marvel and Miles Morales), two are lame (Captain America and Doctor Strange), and the final two just continue for way too long (Deadpool and Venom).
August 30, 2020
Most of these were pretty subpar
December 14, 2020
A collection of stories showing a handful of Marvel characters in futuristic, often apocalyptic scenarios, depicting their final moments in a possible future.
Captain America by Erik Larsen
This is a strong enough concept where everyone in the world is infected with a virus that turns them into Red Skull clones. This is fine, it’s a good concept that wraps up a little too quickly and there’s some very corny dialogue that might be a throwback to older comic books. There’s also a villain reveal I found to be really cool and makes sense in regards to how the virus seems to work. Probably not gonna remember this in the future but was a decent enough time. 3/5
Captain Marvel by Kelly Thompson & Carmen Carnero
Decades after an apocalyptic event that she wasn’t there for, Captain Marvel returns to Earth after receiving a distress signal from the Avengers who she thought to be dead. I don’t want to say too much about this one but this had the right balance of emotion and humour, the dialogue I found fantastic especially when it was being funny and I enjoyed the evolutions of certain characters who appear here. 4/5
Deadpool by Joe Kelly & Mike Hawthorne
This tale of Deadpool trying to kill Death to save his daughter started off good, it had some decent enough humour and the concept was solid but it lost me the longer it went on. They start going through all these different endings, so many that they become really obnoxious and I grit my teeth every time I thought I’d finished and there was yet another. 2/5
Doctor Strange by Leah Williams & Filipe Andrade
This shows Doctor Strange as the last magic user in a technologically advanced society and was kind of boring to be honest. Mostly just Strange rambling to himself, found this really dull. 1/5
Miles Morales by Saladin Ahmed & Damian Scott
This story sees an old man Miles as the mayor of Brooklyn, a refuge after an apocalypse involving large monstrous germs. The storyline itself is very simple and the exact details of the apocalypse itself is not important, the characterisation of Miles feels perfect, he still feels like how people see him today as a symbol of hope who retains his youthful energy while feeling wiser. 4/5
Venom by Adam Warren & Chamba
In a future where A.I.’s rule the universe, Venom attempts to preserve organic life due to his attachment to his hosts. This was very imaginative and a lot of fun, so much information is delivered in such a short amount of time but never feels overstuffed, I wasn’t expecting much out of this one and had such a blast with it and might be my favourite one. 5/5
Captain America by Erik Larsen
This is a strong enough concept where everyone in the world is infected with a virus that turns them into Red Skull clones. This is fine, it’s a good concept that wraps up a little too quickly and there’s some very corny dialogue that might be a throwback to older comic books. There’s also a villain reveal I found to be really cool and makes sense in regards to how the virus seems to work. Probably not gonna remember this in the future but was a decent enough time. 3/5
Captain Marvel by Kelly Thompson & Carmen Carnero
Decades after an apocalyptic event that she wasn’t there for, Captain Marvel returns to Earth after receiving a distress signal from the Avengers who she thought to be dead. I don’t want to say too much about this one but this had the right balance of emotion and humour, the dialogue I found fantastic especially when it was being funny and I enjoyed the evolutions of certain characters who appear here. 4/5
Deadpool by Joe Kelly & Mike Hawthorne
This tale of Deadpool trying to kill Death to save his daughter started off good, it had some decent enough humour and the concept was solid but it lost me the longer it went on. They start going through all these different endings, so many that they become really obnoxious and I grit my teeth every time I thought I’d finished and there was yet another. 2/5
Doctor Strange by Leah Williams & Filipe Andrade
This shows Doctor Strange as the last magic user in a technologically advanced society and was kind of boring to be honest. Mostly just Strange rambling to himself, found this really dull. 1/5
Miles Morales by Saladin Ahmed & Damian Scott
This story sees an old man Miles as the mayor of Brooklyn, a refuge after an apocalypse involving large monstrous germs. The storyline itself is very simple and the exact details of the apocalypse itself is not important, the characterisation of Miles feels perfect, he still feels like how people see him today as a symbol of hope who retains his youthful energy while feeling wiser. 4/5
Venom by Adam Warren & Chamba
In a future where A.I.’s rule the universe, Venom attempts to preserve organic life due to his attachment to his hosts. This was very imaginative and a lot of fun, so much information is delivered in such a short amount of time but never feels overstuffed, I wasn’t expecting much out of this one and had such a blast with it and might be my favourite one. 5/5
June 8, 2022
I ended up reading this comic because I was interested in the Deadpool issue and... we'll this was not what I expected. Mostly because the promised "end" of a couple of the stories wasn't actually that. Still, I enjoyed the reading, even though I found quality pretty irregular.
Starting with the "bad" ones: I found Cap and Miles ones pretty boring. It's true they kind of captured the characters nice, but I didn't like the art a single bit, and the writing was pretty generic too (hero facing an apocaliptic world full of ravaging humans/creatures/zombies, okay, check). Besides, Cap's one was RIDICULOUSLY "American". Yes, I know, it's Captain America, but this was painful to read, the dialogues seemed to come from a cheesy Cold War movie.
Deadpool's one was interesting and made a great use of the breaking the wall narrative and weirdness, but it wasn't my fav either, and the consecutive endings turned out to be too much after a few of them. As for the three remaining ones, I loved them: Venom's was really surprising, and shed an incredibly compassionate and lovely light on the character, whilst still providing an engaging "end of the world" story. Captain Marvel and Strange ones were the most moving, dealing with sacrifice and love, and their characters were so on point; besides, the art in those issues was amazing, much better than the rest of the volume for me.
So, overall... it was mostly good, I guess, but the misleading title and the differences in the quality of the issues made it kind of hard to keep reading at times.
Starting with the "bad" ones: I found Cap and Miles ones pretty boring. It's true they kind of captured the characters nice, but I didn't like the art a single bit, and the writing was pretty generic too (hero facing an apocaliptic world full of ravaging humans/creatures/zombies, okay, check). Besides, Cap's one was RIDICULOUSLY "American". Yes, I know, it's Captain America, but this was painful to read, the dialogues seemed to come from a cheesy Cold War movie.
Deadpool's one was interesting and made a great use of the breaking the wall narrative and weirdness, but it wasn't my fav either, and the consecutive endings turned out to be too much after a few of them. As for the three remaining ones, I loved them: Venom's was really surprising, and shed an incredibly compassionate and lovely light on the character, whilst still providing an engaging "end of the world" story. Captain Marvel and Strange ones were the most moving, dealing with sacrifice and love, and their characters were so on point; besides, the art in those issues was amazing, much better than the rest of the volume for me.
So, overall... it was mostly good, I guess, but the misleading title and the differences in the quality of the issues made it kind of hard to keep reading at times.
June 24, 2021
I like the Venom story the most. It was fun mind bending science fiction. And the art was beautiful. Plus there were cute babies playing with Venom. The Captain America story was good too. It was essentially an “I am Legend” rehash; which is the only way Cap would ever consider not fighting fascism. But the story takes a turn into blood donation propaganda which I fully support. 👍
The other stories were pretty much the same, hero sacrifices themself for future generations, but you needed more than a casual background with the characters to really get invested. The Deadpool one was just too damn much.
What I learned: A tesseract is just the four dimensional analogue of a cube.
Deinococcus radiodurans is a polyextremophile. The Greek loosely translates to “the terrible radiation surviving berry.”
It is sometimes called Conan the Bacterium.
The other stories were pretty much the same, hero sacrifices themself for future generations, but you needed more than a casual background with the characters to really get invested. The Deadpool one was just too damn much.
What I learned: A tesseract is just the four dimensional analogue of a cube.
Deinococcus radiodurans is a polyextremophile. The Greek loosely translates to “the terrible radiation surviving berry.”
It is sometimes called Conan the Bacterium.
December 8, 2020
Larsen's Captain America was a fun twist on I Am Legend. A double twist really.
Captain Marvel was decent.
Deadpool was surprisingly good and broke the fourth wall with a choose your own ending take (that did go on a bit too long).
Miles Morales was trite with ugly art.
Doctor Strange was fun and did a fair job of insinuating some big background event.
Venom was the worst. Remember those free comics called "[insert character name] Saga" which were just illustrated wikipedia entries to get you caught up so you would buy the new books? That's all this was, but it gets you caught up on something that never happened, so it is just an info dump with no emotion or stakes or interest.
About half good and half filler or compost.
Captain Marvel was decent.
Deadpool was surprisingly good and broke the fourth wall with a choose your own ending take (that did go on a bit too long).
Miles Morales was trite with ugly art.
Doctor Strange was fun and did a fair job of insinuating some big background event.
Venom was the worst. Remember those free comics called "[insert character name] Saga" which were just illustrated wikipedia entries to get you caught up so you would buy the new books? That's all this was, but it gets you caught up on something that never happened, so it is just an info dump with no emotion or stakes or interest.
About half good and half filler or compost.
January 4, 2021
A stunning look at possible futures for the Marvel Universe. Endings which see the last surviving heroes each faced with their own brand of the apocalypse, and the heroic sacrifices they must make in order to save the world that is left. Each story feels unique and tailored for the heroes who star in each story, and this provides a perfect continuation of what iconic series like the “What If…?” stories told throughout Marvel’s history. A must-read comic book event for modern and classic Marvel enthusiasts alike!
August 15, 2020
All over the place, fitting for an anthology. Venom was probably the best, followed by Captains Marvel and America. Miles Morales had an okay story and some awful art. Dr. Strange’s story was unengaging. Deadpool was near unreadable.
February 24, 2023
I was trying to find the best word to encapsulate my feelings about this title, subpar is what comes to mind. The art for the Venom story was good, but the story was written in a word blender. I think someone got a thesaurus for Christmas. You should pass on it.
October 20, 2020
Ratings for each one-shot-
★★☆☆☆ Captain America: The End
★★★★☆ Captain Marvel: The End
★★☆☆☆ Deadpool: The End
★★★★★ Doctor Strange: The End
★★★★☆ Miles Morales: The End
★☆☆☆☆ Venom: The End
★★☆☆☆ Captain America: The End
★★★★☆ Captain Marvel: The End
★★☆☆☆ Deadpool: The End
★★★★★ Doctor Strange: The End
★★★★☆ Miles Morales: The End
★☆☆☆☆ Venom: The End
March 28, 2021
Thank goodness I didn't buy any of these issues and got them for free from Hoopla instead. Even so, it feels like a wasted borrow.
Avoid.
Avoid.
April 4, 2021
I’ve decided these are a mix in quality of what if’s.
May 7, 2021
La historia de Capitana Marvel, Deadpool y Doctor Strage son muy buenas, pero las demás son un poco aburridas.
November 10, 2021
Algunos me gustaron más que otros, pero es un concepto interesante llevado a lugares muy distintos entre sí. Sorprendentemente mi favorito fue el primero, el de capitán América.
April 4, 2023
The Captain America was probably the best, but there was extreme variability and not trending upward in quality.
July 29, 2022
So I came here for 3 stories:
Venom, Captain Marvel and Deadpool. And though I wasn’t too interested in the rest, I have to be honest and say that I wasn’t disappointed! I literally LOVE everything and maybe wish there was just a little more. I kind of wish Costa would have done Venom’s story but overall, aside from some minor flaws, it was all beautiful. 🥺❤️
Venom, Captain Marvel and Deadpool. And though I wasn’t too interested in the rest, I have to be honest and say that I wasn’t disappointed! I literally LOVE everything and maybe wish there was just a little more. I kind of wish Costa would have done Venom’s story but overall, aside from some minor flaws, it was all beautiful. 🥺❤️
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