Okay so I'm a bit confused in this issue
what did pym see that actually made him go mad?
I might have to read this issue again
Okay so I'm a bit confused in this issue
what did pym see that actually made him go mad?
I might have to read this issue again
This was written like a cosmic horror story. This was actually more action packed than most Lovecraft stories are.
As I was reading this I was contrasting this with Infinity Gauntlet issue 4 IIRC. It wasn't a favorable comparison. Infinity Gauntlet had the same kind of cosmic conflict with the epic battle to stop Thanos by the Abstracts and it was told very very well. I think this issue just tries to tell too much. We could have seen Pym traveling the multiverse as a plot to the issues we've seen so far which would have left room to tell those final battles in a better way.
I will say this: I don't mind an exposition heavy story here or there in a large serialized story. Battlestar Galactica had a few and it turned out ok. Typically every tv show heading into the finale has an exposition heavy episode right near the end. Nearly every comic that makes the all time best lists has an exposition heavy issue heading into the final arcs. That happens. The problem here is that this didn't need to be so exposition heavy. All of what happened was condensed to exposition to save a few key dramatic reveals.
Last edited by DrTraveler; 02-25-2015 at 09:06 AM.
Yes, it has been stated, and shown, in numerous stories.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watcher...tional_history
http://marvel.wikia.com/Watchers
http://marvel.com/universe/Watchers
Characters such as Uatu's wife, Ulana, or Aron the Rogue Watcher, are from the same race of Watchers from the same 616 universe as Uatu, not visitors from some alternate universe, and different things can happen to and with them in different What If? universes.
Yeah so it looks like he lost it when he saw the Cosmic beings being wiped out
Also, I'm glad they un-retconned the retcon of the 1984 Beyonder being a mutant inhuman
Finally, the Watchers are an ancient race of beings wherein many exist(Ed) in our universe alone. This is well established. Especially in FF comics in years past
If only it was actually scary and not so tedious or the action was just so boring (it's montage fighting. Show a quick shot of people fighting and that's all you need!). Like you said, everything should have been condense down. Did we really need a full issue just to show us how super duper dangerous these new Beyonders that came out of nowhere are and how they just worfed every other establish being in the universe with just dry and hollow dialogue? Was there no room for characterization or emotion to show how much this information affects our characters or anything else?
Exposition is not a bad thing, but seriously Hickman went overboard.
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I swear, if we took out all the comics in this tale devoted to exposition, it would probably only be about 5 issues long. The hardest part is knowing we won't even get resolution in May, it just extends into the Battleworld stuff.
Sigh. Reading this makes me not even want to read the issue, maybe later.
I agree that I would have liked to see this comic through the direct point of view of Pym and Captain Britain. Watching the horror in their eyes.
Seems like Hickman's rushing to the conclusion instead of really savoring these moments of sheer terror.
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i did not enjoy the art this issue, outside of a few panels. the beyonders in particular seemed poorly drawn. not that i have much to base this on since we don't really know what they look like. but i didn't really like what i saw.
i was ok with the narration. it was very lovecraftian.