Let me preface this by saying I'm an unrelenting Hickman fanboy and I've enjoyed every second of this storyline, from the launch of the twin Avengers titles, all the way back to the seeds he's left in other books he's worked on, right up to Secret Wars...

My one nitpick.

In the final moments before Battleworld, when Doom, Reese and Strange launched the bomb at the Beyonders, there was a moment where Doom shouted "NO!" and it was implied that something had gone wrong. In the subsequent visits to that moment, it's as if that "NO!" moment never happened. So was that just like, lazy TV commercial break cliffhanger stuff? A quick red herring to throw us all off base?

I would be content if we would see that for a split second Doom thought the plan had failed, the bomb had detonated prematurely or something, but it's as if it never happened and it was a pretty significant moment in the issue it took place in.