Not best Marvel crossover ever at all. And the winner of Prometheus-prize-for-stupid-scientists-touching-alien-things goooeeessss tooo... Beast.

Less said about this one the better.

As crossovers go, this one wasn't all that bad...

3.5/5 Stars

What five-year-old wrote this? Oh, it was Sam Humphries. (Ha ha ha ha)Took a weak-ass premise, some interesting characters, (some fairly cool art near the beginning) and just flushed it down the crapper!

I really love this weirdass event. I’m still not 100% sure what to make of the story. On it’s face, it seems uninspired; there’s a new powerful object, everyone wants it, it powers people up but also corrupts them. Lord of the Rings mixed with the Dark Side of the Force. But still... maybe it’s the characters? Maybe it’s Sam Humphries and Brian Michael Bendis’ fabulous, clever witted prose? Or maybe it’s the romance... but whatever it is, it worked. (I think it’s the romance.)This is the story t...

I'm a little torn trying to rate this one.... These are my thoughts (for what they're worth):Cons:1. Look, kids! It's another bloated crossover event! That's right; it IS derailing a bunch of the titles you read! It IS another grasping, mercenary attempt to make you buy stuff you wouldn't ordinarily buy just so you can work out what the krutark is going on in your regular books! Excited yet? Me neither.2. Watch in awe as your favourite heroes (plus some guys you don't give a crap about) play an

I mean, what even is this? I've been reading most of the series involved in this massive, cosmic crossover (All-New X-Men, Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain Marvel, some others I don't read), and none of them built up to this event AT ALL. It comes completely out of nowhere. Additionally, this event ended just two months before Secret Wars started, and therefore feels totally shoehorned into the Marvel timeline. Plus, at one point Beast is granted cosmic powers he DEFINITELY does not have in the

A good crossover event. Cosmic Kitty Pride may be a new favorite!

Once, billions of years ago, there was a Celestial that had landed on Viscardi. It gave the people a "gift" of an object known as the Black Vortex. If you stared into this mirror and pledged to submit to the Black Vortex-then that person gets cosmic level powers.Fast forward to our present time and a pirate named Mr. Knife is trying to sell it to the son of Thanos-Thane (Thanos has a kid? seriously?). But- enter Peter Quill who steals it. That starts this epic fracas. I want to be clear I did en...

As far as crossovers and events go, this particular volume went down pretty easily for me.I'm not always a huge fan of these things anymore, mainly because the collected volumes don't seem to have the complete story, and then you end up with this nagging feeling that you need to go search out random issues (from other titles) to fill in the blanks. Surprisingly, I didn't feel that way at all when I closed this book.*slow clap for Marvel* The basic (and I mean very basic) story is that there's th...

Flaming bag of poo (noun): An object often left on the doorstep of a cantankerous neighbor in an effort to induce the old bastard into stepping on it in an attempt to put out the fire, resulting in a shoe covered with feces; see also The Black Vortex.I’m an upbeat guy. As a general rule, I try to find the good in everything and everyone (well, except maybe for Donald Trump). I even give the benefit of the doubt to vegetables (well, no, that’s a lie—I’ve tried to give them all blight, but, thus f...

Decent all over art, not much story. Just a bunch of flying around the universe and punching stuff for the most part.

This is a pretty big crossover. It covers half a dozen ongoing series, plus a few one-shots. And it plays out in a single, cohesive story. You really do need to read all the issues involved in the correct order to get the most out of this story. Or even anything at all. I had tried to read the two All-New X-Men issues in that trade, and I got nothing out of it. Much better to skip those issues in their individual trade and just read the full thing here.But do you really want to? Eh... As a story...

Twelve billion years ago a celestial provided a civilization with the Black Vortex.By submitting to it's power the user is granted cosmic power. The Black Vortex has been found by Mr. Knife aka J'Son of Spartax who intends to use it for his profit and the universe's sorrow.So of course Peter Quill along with his girlfriend Kitty Pryde steal the vortex and they are now hunted by Peter's father, his minions, and Thane son of Thanos.I have to admit Black Vortex surprised me. I've grown leery of mas...

This was quite fun and yeah quite lengthy to read!It starts with the discovery of Black Vortex an ancient artifact that gives people powers and so it falls on the guardians and X-men to team up and stop it but some of their members get corrupted and all, also Mr Knife and his Slaughter lords are after them and also Thane and how Ronan and Kree are involved is another matter. Its a chase against space and time, heartbreaks and everything until the truth is revealed, will it corrupt them for good

This is just so crappy on so many levels that it makes my head hurt to think of it.

Actually 2.5 stars. Was this arc really necessary? Like...really? Was what the purpose here apart from the lovely-dovely Shadowcat x StarLord scene at the end? Come on Marvel, pull yourself together!

Well, that was FLARKIN' disappointing. What can I say? This crossover was way too long for nothing to have gone on. Story: There is a mirror that can up your powers and maybe make you loco. The end. The plot is made up of a lot of fights and killing entire planets and stuff. It very much had a this happened -then this happened -then this happened feeling.The only goal of this storyline, so far that I can make out, is to get everyone changed ever so slightly enough that they'll want to go in diff...

This was a major crossover event, running through Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain Marvel, Nova, Legendary Star-Lord, Cyclops, All-New X-Men, and a couple stand alone titles.Twelve billion years ago, a Celestial gives a magic mirror to a planet, and this mirror gives unlimited cosmic power to those who submit to it. This doesn't work well, of course, and soon everyone on the planet is dead except one warrior.Fast forward to modern times, and everyone in the known universe is after this thing, in...