There's an almost palpable sigh of relief flowing through this comic. The Beyonder is gone, back, sort of, in his universe, blissfully unaware of the existence of the heroes of Earth. But the sigh isn't just from the characters - it's from the creators too. Crossovers are fun and all, but they're intrusions into a smoothly flowing narrative. Someone else's story, in essence, comes in and takes over yours. But now, the comic reads like The Avengers again.
Also, when I say a sigh of relief flows through this comic, don't misunderstand: this is an action-filled comic. From Storm's appearance on page 1 to Kang's mania on the final page, things move at a Captain Marvel-like pace. I've never actually read a story that has Kang as the main villain. I've seen him briefly in the first Secret Wars, and every now and again in other Avengers comics, but I never quite got what made him so scary. I'm hoping to find out.
As I noted a few days back, I've been binge-watching the television show Timeless on Netflix. It's really quite excellent, and has got me thinking about the ins and outs of time travel, and specifically about the interpretations of time travel that the show embraces. Timeless seems to stick to a single timeline that overwrites the prior one - at one point a character is seen to have carried something from a timeline that is described as no longer existing. I'm curious if this is an interpretation they'll stick with. The story that starts in today's comic is a different interpretation: the Many Worlds theory. Each divergence creates parallel universes in which there exist duplicates of ourselves. What happens when one version decides to wipe out all of the other versions?
I've a feeling Kang is about to tell us.
To be continued.
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