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icaruscurse's review against another edition
5.0
confusing but worth it. which is pretty much everything hickman writes and we love him for it.
daileyxplanet's review against another edition
4.0
Not amazing but did intrigue me enough to read Volume 2.
nomadtla's review against another edition
3.0
I love the direction of the Avengers in this book. Making subsets or cells of a greater team all working around the core group we consider the Avengers is great. The art has been fantastic so far I just feel like the storyline has been a bit muddled so far with very little definitive advancement beside creating this Avengers World network.
geekbrocade's review against another edition
2.0
The constant going back and forth is confusing as well as the myriad of new characters with shoddy introductions into the timeline. Not quite an enjoyable read. Won't be picking up the rest of the series.
shane_tiernan's review
4.0
I started to read "Prelude to Infinity" but then the "previously" section seemed so interesting I decided I wanted to start from the beginning. I love "cosmic" stuff and I'm loving this huge crazy plot. The art's good too. The only problem I have with this is Spider-Man. They're writing him like a huge douche and he's not even funny (not even trying to be funny). It's so bad I feel like there must be a reason for it. Like did someone close to him die right before this? Or maybe he's been taken over by someone else? It's just not Peter Parker at all. The rest of the dialogue is decent, not bad, just not especially entertaining.
andrealinia's review against another edition
4.0
The first thing I will say about this comic book is that I don't recommend it for beginners who want to begin their journey into the comic world, not even coming from the manga books. Nor do I recommend it to those of you that are just starting off in the Marvel Universe. It requires a bit of prior knowledge into some of the characters and how they relate to each other (Iron Man and Captain America specifically) in order to appreciate the first few pages of the comic.
All in all it was a good comic. It picks up the end trail of a different storyline but that's not important to the context of this series. It gives you all the information you need to know when the Avenger's find out about it. It also expands the avenger's roster significantly. You have to be able to read the comic and go "oh who's that? Well I'm sure it'll tell me later" as there were plenty of avenger's that I had never heard of. Two of those get their origins explored within these volumes but if you don't have the understanding of how to link the images and text together and allow yourself to interpret the event it can definitely cause some confusion. I got very confused at one point and had to stop reading it and talk it through with someone to figure out what exactly what going on.
Despite that, it sets the stage for a bigger event and at the end of the volume I was ready to pick up the next. The art within is absolutely gorgeous with a lot of attention to detail and it adds as much to the story as the world does. It's also the start of the Secret Wars storyline, for those of you following that
All in all it was a good comic. It picks up the end trail of a different storyline but that's not important to the context of this series. It gives you all the information you need to know when the Avenger's find out about it. It also expands the avenger's roster significantly. You have to be able to read the comic and go "oh who's that? Well I'm sure it'll tell me later" as there were plenty of avenger's that I had never heard of. Two of those get their origins explored within these volumes but if you don't have the understanding of how to link the images and text together and allow yourself to interpret the event it can definitely cause some confusion. I got very confused at one point and had to stop reading it and talk it through with someone to figure out what exactly what going on.
Despite that, it sets the stage for a bigger event and at the end of the volume I was ready to pick up the next. The art within is absolutely gorgeous with a lot of attention to detail and it adds as much to the story as the world does. It's also the start of the Secret Wars storyline, for those of you following that
mschlat's review against another edition
3.0
I keep on trying [a:Jonathan Hickman|356424|Jonathan Hickman|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1356400161p2/356424.jpg], and I keep on not being that impressed. I liked some of his Fantastic Four work --- this volume is similar in tone with big ideas but a flatness to the exposition and characterization.