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Empyre
Earth's Mightiest Heroes and Marvel's First Family star in an intergalactic event that threatens to reshape the Marvel Universe! Old allies make a distress call to the Avengers with news of a terrible enemy that could wipe out humanity itself. The Celestial Messiah has returned - but is Earth ready to hear his message? Meanwhile, in the most unlikely of places, the Fantastic Four witness the final conflict of the Kree/Skrull War... and a long-hidden Elder of the Universe stands revealed! With the Kree and the Skrulls united under a new emperor, their war fleet charts a course - for Earth! The Avengers are ready to fight, while the FF seek a diplomatic solution. But if the two teams can't work together to save the day, Earth may not survive... Avengers #0, Fantastic Four #0, Empyre #1-6, Empyre Epilogue
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Published November 12, 2020
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May 29, 2023
It’s my love of Dan Slott’s fantastic four run that persuaded me into reading this marvel event. Although I love the wittiness of the fantastic four family, not alot of Dan Slott’s light hearted quirky fun snuck it’s way into this series.
Although Slott is one of four writers, I was a little disappointed with a feeling of foreigness when it came to the overall vibe of this story. Not to mention, the ridiculousness of the concept (which was the marvel version of plants versus zombies). Whether it was the hollowness of the main villains, or the underwhelming prelude issues (I believe I read 3 out of 5 of this event), this series felt like work to me.
Don’t get me wrong, the artwork is fantastic, and the Hulkling story is extremely captivating, but this just seemed like it either didn’t need to be a marvel team up event, or needed to be explored further (no matter how bored I would’ve become).
The positives are: the artwork, the fantastic four storyline including the acquiring of 2 new characters, and the bonus story’s after the main event has concluded.
The negatives: the overall threat of the cotati just didn’t seem to be there, another skrull versus Kree story (although to be fair it had a wildly different approach this time), and the underwhelming prelude issues.
If this didn’t continue the narrative of Slott’s fantastic four one, I wouldn’t have considered this essential reading, but I’m always glad to expand my knowledge of my favorite comic runs. If not for the power of the hulking story and the art, I would’ve given this a lower rating, but those two aspects are very well done.
Although Slott is one of four writers, I was a little disappointed with a feeling of foreigness when it came to the overall vibe of this story. Not to mention, the ridiculousness of the concept (which was the marvel version of plants versus zombies). Whether it was the hollowness of the main villains, or the underwhelming prelude issues (I believe I read 3 out of 5 of this event), this series felt like work to me.
Don’t get me wrong, the artwork is fantastic, and the Hulkling story is extremely captivating, but this just seemed like it either didn’t need to be a marvel team up event, or needed to be explored further (no matter how bored I would’ve become).
The positives are: the artwork, the fantastic four storyline including the acquiring of 2 new characters, and the bonus story’s after the main event has concluded.
The negatives: the overall threat of the cotati just didn’t seem to be there, another skrull versus Kree story (although to be fair it had a wildly different approach this time), and the underwhelming prelude issues.
If this didn’t continue the narrative of Slott’s fantastic four one, I wouldn’t have considered this essential reading, but I’m always glad to expand my knowledge of my favorite comic runs. If not for the power of the hulking story and the art, I would’ve given this a lower rating, but those two aspects are very well done.
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March 24, 2023
This was more fun than I was expecting, also: T E D D Y A L T M A N. Oh man, truly some good Teddy/Billy in this and I love my Young Avengers.
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