{"id":172,"date":"2015-05-19T03:10:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T03:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2015-05-19T03:25:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T03:25:48","slug":"new-avengers-ultron-forever-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"New Avengers: Ultron Forever 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here\u2019s a perplexing thing! \u00a0This is issue is the second part of a three-part story, which began in \u2014 follow me here \u2014 the Avengers: Ultron Forever one-shot. \u00a0The story will conclude in the third and final installment,\u00a0Uncanny Avengers: Ultron Forever.\u00a0 I won\u2019t blame you for being confused, as I take objection to the idea that rather than have a simple three-issue Ultron Forever miniseries, we split it up into three one-shots, sacrificing clarity for the sake of having OMG NOT ONE BUT <em>THREE<\/em> ALL-NEW NUMBER-ONE ISSUES for Age of Ultron movie fans.\u00a0 It\u2019s not like each of the three issues feature <em>three different teams<\/em> of Classic, Diet, and Cherry Avengers fighting Ultron; it\u2019s a three-part story over three issues. \u00a0I would think anybody picking up one issue out of the three is just going to be confused.\u00a0 Bad form, Marvel!<\/p>\n<p>As for the story itself, I recommend it \u2013 sure, it\u2019s a watered-down Avengers Forever, but it\u2019s still an Al Ewing story.\u00a0 The first part was okay, if only for a nice long scene featuring Black Widow and Vision interacting like the longtime comrades they are, but it was mostly just Doctor Doom assembling our cross-temporal heroes (from Jim Rhodes in the Iron Man armor, to Danielle Cage as the Captain America of the future) and sending them off on their respective quests to defeat Ultron, who\u2019s now\u2026 haha, whoops, the omnipotent All-Father of Asgard? \u00a0The Alan Davis art gives the story a classic feel, as does\u00a0Al Ewing\u2019s focus on these mismatched Avengers characters. \u00a0But this second part was a real stand-out, which, for me, was largely due to the footnotes that helpfully explained specifically where these characters were from in their respective storylines, which gives Al Ewing just <em>so<\/em> much credit in my eyes, since it makes it feel like he has those issues right at hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here\u2019s a perplexing thing! \u00a0This is issue is the second part of a three-part story, which began in \u2014 follow me here \u2014 the Avengers: Ultron Forever one-shot. \u00a0The story will conclude in the third and final installment,\u00a0Uncanny Avengers: Ultron Forever.\u00a0 I won\u2019t blame you for being confused, as I take objection to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic_round-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}