Avengers #6

Written by Mark WaidPenciled by Mike Del Mundo
Cover by Alex Ross
Published Apr 5, 2017

   Vision tells future Vision that the experiment has failed. While the latter tells him to have hope, he's even more bothered that he apparently outlives all of his teammates. Future Vision tells him that might not exactly be the case. Meanwhile Spider-Man's team in Ancient Egypt plans to blow up the fusion reactor. Hercules washes the group out of harm's way while Falcon throws his shield at the trigger. They escape from the pyramid just in time for it to explode, eliminating Kang's weapons cache.
   In the future, Wasp and Giant Man are blasted with the future stealing ray, sending Captain Marvel to a past that doesn't exist. The two Thors are able to combine their hammer and knock the creature with the ray off guard, while Giant Man reverses the weapon. The Avengers who were beginning to disappear are able to get the ray to Captain Marvel which is enough to disrupt Kang's financial empire.
   Another team in the future puts together a plan. The imprisoned Avengers starts to smash everything, trying to change history. They take out Kang's army until he realizes what they're doing. Drawing their guns, the weapons disintegrate - revealing that some of the time displaced teams' plans are working. Vision gathers them back and they move to take down a poor, depowered and weak Kang.
   Unfortunately they find themselves with one final task. The Scarlet Centurion and Immortus, both future identities of Kang. Even Doctor Doom appears, and as the Kang's shoot the rays at each Avenger, Giant Man runs and realizes they're all future incarnations of the villain. None from the past. He gets the helmet from earlier and puts it on weak Kang's head, shutting down and reversing everything.
   The issue concludes with the future Vision congratulating Dr. Pym for figuring that out. He agrees to bring all the past Avengers back to their timelines with no knowledge of this, except for Vision's. His future incarnation retains the gizmo with Kang trapped inside. Below them rests the tombstone of Avenger X - Bravest of All... and with that, we're left to be continued.
   This is the worst penciled and inked comic book I've ever seen published for a major comic producer. I hate it and I'm having a hard time continuing a subscription if there's no plans to change. I don't know what he's going for, but I have to think Mike Del Mundo is more talented than this. I don't need abstract comic book art, and I pray there's some change going forward. The story was ok but the artwork is bad enough to reduce this to a 3/10.

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