Fantastic end ? to a thrilling series. I know it will continue but I'm happy with the way things ended up.

I'm just super glad I didn't fork out money for the omnibus as this was of low standard. Poor storylines, poor artwork and not much of it made any sense. This volume was a little better than the rest because it had some focus on the better characters such as galactus and his heralds. I love the silver surfer, I wish he had a more prominent role in this, it would have been much more fun.

The motives of Annihilus supposedly became clear in Book 2: to invade our universe with his horde of bugs and ships (known as the Annihilation Wave) and take back some space for his Negative Zone. The key to this seemed to have something to do with the Power Cosmic, the energy harnessed by the Silver Surfer and Galactus. Thanos, temporarily allied with Annihilus, discovers his true plans: to destroy all life in our universe. Thanos, Drax, Nova, Gamora, and Peter Quill (among many others) work to...

I found Book Three a mixed bag. The struggles Nova faced in Book One -- taking on the Worldmind and Nova Force -- are entirely forgotten. The defeat of Galactus, which should have been a tale all its own, is relegated to the background, with his conquerers subsequently set aside until the main plotline ends. Meanwhile, the world eater's state of "starvation" proves no obstacle to him defeating nearly all our antagonists when he gets a chance. On the positive side, the stories of Annihilus, Thano...

All the mini-series in the previous volumes have lead up to this. They don't all tie-together quiet as well as I'd like, there are a few gaps in there, but it's good enough for a big conclusion and showdown between our Cosmic heroes and the Annihilation wave. The Heralds of Galactus two parter afterwards isn't that good. It's a little boring since the story is done. But it does tie-up a few loose ends. I think the strongest point of Annihilation, and why it's so highly regarded still, is how the...

The whole event is getting lumped here bc I'm lazyI would have liked this order with a touch less sexism please marvel. gamora was naked and objectified the whole time. other female characters had the exact same body type (hint: big boobies) and were useless (even my wine aunt moondragon)Silver Surfer saved this, with Cammie and Drax a close second. But they're not in it enough to justify a whole event about boring bs with man pain Nova at the front. Love u galactus if u weren't incapacitated ha...

The Rew winner is Di Vito’s art, sadly the rest is just not-even-vanilla-bean-vanilla. While the first book brokered questions and set the table, “Annihilation 2” didn’t really serve a purpose—except to teach the spelling of annihilation.The powers who be would’ve been wise to cut the pointless “Heralds of Galactus” and actually told the most important part of the book: the confrontation between Galactus and the two proemial gods. The writing never really shows up, either. Gone is the Worldmind,...

Galacticus. The pacing of these comics is amazingly fast and the art really tells the story even better. It's easy to get submerged in the tales and see plot fly by.

Man, this was /good/.You have to admire the balls of someone who builds a massive space epic full of completely obscure, unrecognized characters, introduces two HUGE ridiculously powerful villains and wallops the tar out of one of the most powerful characters in the setting.It's a scifi war story no bloody fooling and I loved this series the whole way through. It looks like this is the only space epic created by this guy but I'm tempted to trawl the entirety of Marvel's recent space epics anyway...

Unfortunately, I think the buildup to this one in volumes 1 & 2 were more enjoyable than the main event itself.

Holy shee-it.Jack Flag hates cosmic stuff, but I’ve always found it to be a whole lot of fun.

Annihilation. The actual Annihilation mini-series picks up where the Prologue left off and offers up a truly cosmic story of the sort that DnA weren't really able to replicate in what followed (despite all of the strengths of their own writing). Drax vs. Thanos! Galactus bound! It's a really, really big show and Giffen does a great job with it. There's also some strong writing in the individual issues as Giffen tells a story that has scope in both characters and time. If people say Annihilation

A pretty good, complex war story, but the interesting bits--Galactus used as a weapon, the death of Thanos--are overshadowed by the underwhelming ending.

And so it ends. The biggest letdown I have ever had reading comics. How I made it to the end, I do not know. Stubbornness, I guess. Was this final volume better than the first 2? Sure. It actually has the 6 issue story that needed 600 pages of ramping up to. But I take off one star because WHY DID WE NEED 600 ISSUES TO RAMP UP TO THIS!!!It is a simple tale of huge army is going to destroy the Universe and our heroes are going to die but...they don't. Is how they save the day that interesting? No...

This volume contains the Annihilation mini-series, the Heralds of Galactus follow-up issues, and the Nova Corps Files guidebook. Annihilation itself is fairly entertaining. The Heralds of Galactus stories are a bit more interesting (though I still find the Surfer less appealing as Galactus's servant than he was as a solo character). The Nova Corps Files are informative, nice details on some of the more obscure characters. No serious complaints with this collection, but I do wonder if the whole A...

The final book in the Annihilation series. It was quite a lead-up. I had a lot of fun with all the tie-in books that brought us to this volume and I have to say that I wasn't in any way disappointed.Is it my favorite Marvel 'event' book?No.But that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it. It doesn't mean that I didn't get a cosmic-sized slap of goodness across my face...and it was a great start for my journey deep down into all things cosmic Marvel. Holy shit though have we ever come a long way since all...

I read most of this book by accident out of order from the minis that preceded it, and found myself both confused by all the implied recent adventures and conflicts, and at the same time bored by all the implied drama that seems to have relied so heavily on the prologue that was built up before this book. After re-reading the generally execrable prologue books (save the Drax and to a lesser extent Super Skrull minis), I realise that there's still plenty of action and developments that head left

For those reading all three of my reviews only the middle part has new information.This isn't a book for a casual Marvel Universe reader. If you read it and aren't a pro you absolutely must read the historical information in between scenes.There are a lot of stories within but they blend well enough and are needed.In book three it comes to a close. Thanos reveals his reasons for a secret alliance with the enemy, Annihilus, the Galactic Alliance (of sorts) is brought to its knees, Galactus is NOT...

A well deserved finale for this Marvel grand event. of course it should have ended better / with more epic proportion. still it's done without earth's mightiest heroes which means something completely new in the scheme of Marvel's grand events.

Collects Annihilation issues #1-6, Annihilation: Heralds of Galactus issues #1-2, Annihilation: The Nova Corps FilesOver the years, I've heard so many good things about this crossover, and now that I've read it, I'm not sure what all of the hype was about. I'm a big fan of Marvel Cosmic, but this story dragged on and on. There were a lot of characters that I liked in this story, but there was also an abundance of characters that I've never heard of before. I finally decided to start skimming whe...