I didn't think this issue was anything special by any means. In fact, if you ask me, this was only just worthy of a $2.99 price tag, let alone it being branded with an extra buck, not good Marvel.
Anyway, my beefs are with the story, not the reverse economic logic down at Marvel.
The first issue was okay, not brilliant but it got it off to a good start. This issue I was expecting to be really great, I thought we'd see huge battles and some great character interaction. Now, given that there was some pretty cool fight scenes here between Morgana Le Fay and Dr.Doom, this issue otherwise, was sub-standard for a Bendis book.
There was no character interaction, it just read like each character was talking to themselves. While it wasn't boring, it just felt misguided and slightly unstructured to me.
The first few pages dragged on for a while, it was just talking which wasn't going anywhere.
Stuff finally got going about halfway through and I began to feel somewhat entertained.
There were some pretty big 'shock horror' moments in this issue, but once you finished reading it, you realised that they were in fact just novelties which are deemed irrelevant by the final page.
Although the end page was pretty dramatic, what I'm trying to say is that if they are anything like the 'shock' moments we saw earlier in this issue, then they'll have blown over my #3.
The artwork is really bugging me in this comic as well. I would be lieing if I said otherwise. Why draw Norman Osborn as Tommy Lee Jones? Why? It's not Tommy Lee Jones, so just stop drawing him like that because it's distracting the hell out of me!
A very sub-par issue. I was not amused. This issue does get 3 stars however because complaints aside, the second half of this issue was pretty cool to look at what was going on, even though the artwork was only just bearable.