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squidbag's review
3.0
Fun, and brings together much of what I love about the Marvel Universe together in one volume. This was the stage prep for the Secret Empire stuff, and so they had to get their ducks in a row and establish everyone's motivations, and they did that with this story. Suffers from a lot of the jumbled continuity of 'event' stories that cross from one title to another and back again, but the art and storytelling are easy enough to assimilate that this more or less works, like re-assembling a puzzle. Not crucial reading, but interesting.
seawarrior's review
3.0
I have a lot of negative feelings about this comic but I'm going to attempt to be as polite as I can and start with saying that all three stars I rated it are for Rick Jones only and my main grievance is how poorly the tie-ins were planned.
The concept of Pleasant Hill and the ethics surrounding it is interesting but after being dragged in so many directions by multiple writers and their individual series with characters typically not involved with each other, finishing each issue truly felt like a chore. Parts of the story were really enjoyable, but they're barely worth reading when thrown in with all the other messy writing and subplots piled on top of each other.
If characters I cared about hadn't been featured in this event I would not have enjoyed more than a few pages of it, so if you don't really like at least one of the many heroes written into this story please do yourself a favor and elect to read about what happened on Wikipedia or ignore it completely.
The concept of Pleasant Hill and the ethics surrounding it is interesting but after being dragged in so many directions by multiple writers and their individual series with characters typically not involved with each other, finishing each issue truly felt like a chore. Parts of the story were really enjoyable, but they're barely worth reading when thrown in with all the other messy writing and subplots piled on top of each other.
If characters I cared about hadn't been featured in this event I would not have enjoyed more than a few pages of it, so if you don't really like at least one of the many heroes written into this story please do yourself a favor and elect to read about what happened on Wikipedia or ignore it completely.
paulweymouth's review
3.0
A lot of what is happening in the current Secret Empire storyline had its foundation in this mini series. I wanted some more background to enjoy the current event.
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