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Of Embassies and Origins - Justice League International Part 2 (Eaglemoss Collection v77)

  Review: Since we are doing a series of reviews focusing on Booster Gold over his nearly 40-year history, we include this one as a collection of some of his earliest appearances, dating to late 1987. That places the original publish date of these tales while his original solo series was still going strong.  This book is a beautiful, glossy hard-cover with smooth and heavy-stock paper inside, although the sometimes-low print reproduction quality leads to blurred and hard to read word balloons on occasion. It is also a rare book here in North America, as Eaglemoss Collections targeted UK fans with this series. At this point in the history of the 1987-rebooted Justice League, they have gained official United Nations recognition and sanction. To ensure their reach truly is global, they rebrand as Justice League International (as does the title of the series!) and they open new headquarters buildings around the world: New York, Paris and Moscow are included here. As this is a product of 19
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Hulk Grow Two Heads - Avengers: Ultron Forever

Cover of Avengers: Ultron Forever collection

Review:

This little collection has an outsized number of oddities in its slim number of pages. It has time travel, an almost random collection of heroes of different epochs and eons, a Doombot, an all-powerful Ultron and his robot Avengers, and of course the two-headed Hulk.

The three-part Ultron Forever crossover across various Avengers titles moves along at a brisk pace. Doom is making a last-gasp effort to resist and defeat Ultron, who has become the All-Father of Asgard, a self-declared deity. Doom pulls Black Widow and Vision from our present, female versions of Thor and Captain America from near futures, Jim Rhodes-era Iron Man, and early-days, biologically unstable Hulk. In this last addition, Banner and Hulk compete constantly for control of the shared body.

The battle with Ultron and his minions is loud, continuous and near-hopeless, at least until Asgard defies Ultron and sides with the Avengers. This very odd group of Avengers are still Avengers, of course, and fight with intelligence, teamwork and self-sacrifice despite the odds.

Filling out this otherwise too-thin volume are three reprints from different heroes and eras. Their inclusion is explicitly as proof, reference docs as it were, to the bemused and confused reader. These time-torn heroes really were once this way, proclaim the reprints.

Hulk #6 by the legendary duo of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, is not quite so weird as the two heads of the Ultron story, but there is definitely some genetic volatility and a battle for control happening.

Thor #378 gives us the Hela-cursed God of Thunder that was the explanation for his absence in the cross-over. It is a tale of Loki's treachery and Thor's heroism coming through in spades.

And Iron Man #188 has Jim Rhodes battling headaches and making hilarious mistakes as he seeks to control the armor and make intelligent split-second decisions, with sometimes hilarious consequences.

Overall, this is an unimpressive, scattered and weird collection of stories.

Description:

From the pages of Jonathan Hickman's AVENGERS, witness the Ultron Singularity of the 25th Century! Machines have inherited the Earth, with Ultron as their All-Father. Mankind's only hope will be a time-torn team in the tradition of AVENGERS FOREVER! An early Hulk, Jim Rhodes as Iron Man and a Hela-cursed battle-armor Thor are plucked from the past. The unlikely duo of Vision and Black Widow are drawn from our present. And from the near and not-so-near future, the new Thor and an even newer Captain America, with her own heroic legacy to live up to! Who cries "Assemble" to this unique group? The one and only Dr. Doom! Caught between Ultron and Doom, can the Avengers find a way to save forever?

Collects: Avengers: Ultron Forever 1, New Avengers: Ultron Forever 1, Uncanny Avengers: Ultron Forever 1, Hulk #6, Thor #378, Iron Man #188

Authors: Al Ewing
Artists: Alan Davis
Published By: Marvel 
Published When: Nov. 10 2015
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ISBN: 978-0785197690
Pages: 144 pages



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