One team in the future, trying to defeat Ultron. One team in the past, trying to kill Hank Pym.
What I'm finding quite interesting is that the plans of the two greatest tactical minds in the Marvel U (being Captain America and Nick Fury) are complete failures that end up getting some beloved heroes killed.
And if you've ever had an inkling to see Captain America beheaded, this is your comic.
I think that the fact that it's Wolverine's plan that ultimately has the most success (though we'll have to see how that all goes in the next issue) really says something about our superheroes. It's the same conundrum I was faced with when I watched Man of Steel. There's something in the zeitgeist these days that wants to bring our heroes, our gods, down to our own level, which somehow always comes around to killing. It's sad to me to see our heroes reduced to our level - having fictions in which the characters were opposed to killing was really one of the things that brought me into comics in the first place, to have something that somehow escapes the savagery of our bloodlust.
I don't think this murderousness of our superheroes is a long-term problem. We just live in a time when it seems the only way out of lots of our real world problems is the taking of lives. I look forward to a time when our superheroes return to showing us why that's not the final solution.
More tomorrow. It'll probably be pretty dark.
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