The latest issue of Marvel Essentials featuring the Empyre story-line hit the shelves today and publishes the last three issues of the mini-series. There's lots of action as plots within plots are revealed and some characters finally are show to be who they really are.
The final battle is taking place in Wakanda as the Black Panther and his allies try to stop the Quoi and their Messiah from planting their seeds in vibranium enriched soil. If they succeed all animal life is doomed. The Hulkling is deploying a weapon that will explode the Sun and destroy Earth before it's too late.
Meanwhile Tony Stark and Reed Richards wander around Avengers Mountain inside a dead Celestial's head. Can they yet save the day. And how can Wicca help. All these questions will be answered as the story concludes.
There are a number of references to events that have take place elsewhere in comics we have not seen as part of the series which is why I get annoyed with these crossovers. If you don't spend huge amounts of money and get every tie in the story is not actually complete. May of these tie-is can be spurious as I found with Secret Invasion which ended my lifelong collecting of Marvel.
Panini has brought me back and although the Empyre story line was interesting it wasn't that great and certainly I would have preferred to buy a collected edition rather than three quite expensive comics which contained huge amounts of Venom, a character I have no interest in.
This will be my last "Essentials" though their Spider-Man and X-Men comics will remain on my monthly list. I may instead get the occasional TPB especially as the next advertised story looks interesting.
Rating; Empyre 3 Stars, Venom No Stars.
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