Jonathan Hickman’s dull Avengers storyline continues in Time Runs Out, Volume 2: dumb Cap is still pissed at the Illuminati and wants to punch them while Sunspot’s preening annoyingly. Still waiting for this “amazing” storyline to pay off!
I’m not really interested in anything Sunspot’s doing, which is a shame as he’s in this book quite a lot. Dumb Cap vs the Illuminati has never been remotely compelling and is even less so here. Iron Man in the cage next to Black Swan was awful – Hickman writes Tony so uncharacteristically macho, yelling about how everyone will come crawling back to him when they realise he was right!
I’d hoped Thor and Hyperion leading an expedition to the Black Priests would be fun but it’s just more mindless punching – I guess I should’ve expected that given those two are power characters, as well as Hickman’s general lack of imagination when it comes to conflict! Molecule Man’s still doing something for Doom (though if you’ve already read Secret Wars like me you’ll know what) but right now it’s just more abstract blather.
Though Hickman completely messes up Cap and Iron Man, he writes a brilliant Reed Richards and Reed’s message to his daughter Valeria was the only standout part of the book. I also liked that Valeria’s advising “Uncle” Doom on the sly as well – that’s an unexpectedly intriguing development!
On the whole though, Avengers: Time Runs Out, Volume 2 is another Hickman dud.
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