Avengers 18...Can't ev en use it for toilet paper

 

Avengers 17 set it all up. After events in Heroes Reborn where the Earth Hyperion knew was a fake one, he was ...ticked off.  So he heads at the speed of light toward Earth to wreak vengeance (no it doesn't make sense since...just bear with me).  The Avengers are on high alert as they ponder how to stop one of the most powerful beings -and they note they have known "many Hyperions" in the past (though that screws up so many reboots).

Issue 18...talking heads....talking heads....talking heads...talking heads and yak yak yak about how they can only really delay Hyperion (I missed something somewhere as there is now a Wakandan Galactic Empire????).

Hyperion blasts past Pluto at near light speed so the Avengers t6alk and get some vibranium missiles ready (it is his Kryptonite apparently) and...yak yak yak...someone needs to explain to writer Jed MacKay what light speed is: It would take roughly 4 hours and 19 minutes to reach Pluto from Earth traveling at the speed of light. The speed of light is approximately 299,792 kilometers per second (km/s). The average distance between Earth and Pluto is about 4.67 billion kilometers.

So it looks like Earth is screwed but then a doorway o another parallel is opened and Hyperion is told by some synthetic thingy that the Earth there was devastated and has no heroes and only he can help them now. Crisis over.

That cover was "an imaginary battle scene" as they used to say on all the old toy soldier adverts.

Total rubbish and waste of paper and ink and the most "meh" story in a long time. Silver and Bronze ages Marvel Comics had far more complicated and interesting stories and this is just modern time wasting bilge. What was the point? Oh, don't worry the reboot will ignore it all as The Squirrel Girl Interstellar Empire is established.

I once did a story where a giant robot was running amok -heroes falling left, right and centre and it was unstoppable...until someone found the "off" switch on its back. Anti-climax but there was a battle and story.  

Marvel is just not "it" any more