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quetzelish's review
3.0
Pleasant Hill, another Marvel event comic that really didn't need to be an event comic and filled at being an event comic. There is no true core book, the story is all over the place and none of the tie in issues accomplish anything important or provide any new plot points or expand on any of actual events going on in Pleasant Hill. I really don't see why this had to be something which included every avengers and shield title (and the illuminati?). It's entirety set up for the new Steve Rodgers series and would have benefited from simply being a 3 part mini that lead into the new status quo with the only tie in book being the Sam Wilson one and maybe the shield book.
It would have had a better focus and instead of sending 200 pages going over the same events from slightly different angles (and many times spending 6-8 pages an issue re-drawing the exact same scene from a different issue), it could have been a condensed, suspenseful and thoughtful analysis of the morality behind this form of rehabilitation and the use of a sentient cosmic cube. But instead we just get a series of fights strung together by a narrative that is never actually explained. There are huge chunks of story missing I'm not going to go into the art because it is 6-7 different books with different styles so it never meshes, but it wasn't never meant to.
All in all, a mess of an event that isn't grand in scale, affects very little (which is the whole point of a huge crossover like this, granted it does have fallout but it really didn't need to be this massive) and was a muddy story that never really came together. I really liked the ideas behind it and the introduction of a sentient cosmic cube is such a strange idea that I wanted to see where it could go. I just wish this event had doubled down on the unsettling aspects of the mock 50's town.
It would have had a better focus and instead of sending 200 pages going over the same events from slightly different angles (and many times spending 6-8 pages an issue re-drawing the exact same scene from a different issue), it could have been a condensed, suspenseful and thoughtful analysis of the morality behind this form of rehabilitation and the use of a sentient cosmic cube. But instead we just get a series of fights strung together by a narrative that is never actually explained. There are huge chunks of story missing
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like why does kobik make all the heroes into people in her perfect town and why doesn't she do the same to the villains that just broke free. It would have been an even more interesting story if we had spent time seeing her reality manipulation have a purpose for more than a few pages and have the heroes and villains have to actually escape pleasant hill instead of just sort of fighting with very little stakes.All in all, a mess of an event that isn't grand in scale, affects very little (which is the whole point of a huge crossover like this, granted it does have fallout but it really didn't need to be this massive) and was a muddy story that never really came together. I really liked the ideas behind it and the introduction of a sentient cosmic cube is such a strange idea that I wanted to see where it could go. I just wish this event had doubled down on the unsettling aspects of the mock 50's town.
cluelessnu's review
1.0
This was an interesting idea executed badly and its head now stands on a pike to warn others.
Event comics are always a little disjointed to be fair, which is why I generally do not like them. I only read this one because I read the All New All Different Avengers first tie in and thought it sounded like an interesting premise that the whole thing would go into in proper depth.
It did not. They are all very much disconnected comics with only the barest sliver of an idea holding them together. The majority of the issues don't seem to be allowed to move the Event/plot forward.
Waste of time, wish I'd just read a summary of the event instead.
P.S. Marcus To's art will always be a treat to see though.
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