‘Big Town’ comes to a
dramatic close. The city is supposed to be celebrating the upcoming nuptials of
Johnny Storm and a young girl whose also the head of the FFs public relations
department. But a hack job into the Manhattan main frame by Ultron has put a
timer on the life of the city and ultimately the world. The Red Skull, Magneto,
Sub-Mariner, and even the Hulk have declared that unless all super heroes stand
down, the mainframe creation of Reed Richards and Tony Stark will go critical
and destroy the Big Apple. (Also, this will set off a chain reaction in which
the power grids of the world will also power down, thus placing the planet back
into the middle ages.)
The ending was both shocking but predictable
with one exception. I’m actually not 100% sure if the Big Town survived or went
critical. I don’t want to give away too much, because I feel like this is a
hidden dollar box gem that people really should take notice of because of how
similar situations in the Marvel NOW! books are to ‘Big Town.’ But I really am
not sure if everybody died and the city’s squad of robot maintenance workers started
to clean up automatically or if the final page takes place centuries in the
future in which humanity no longer exists only the automation of Mr. Fantastic
and Iron Man’s utopia still function without masters. Either way, the book
ending on a note similar to Wall-E or some Twilight Zone episode about the potential
dangers of technology.
I hate it when books
end ambiguously and that’s the main reason I give this final chapter such a low
mark. But the series itself is good and some readers love endings in which you
get to come up with your own ending. I just happen to not favor those type of
stories.
Worth Consuming.
Rating: 7 out of 10
stars
Overall series rating:
8 out of 10 stars
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