Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

I've been struggling with this one to be honest: it's huge, it touches upon some really fucked up issues, and I just wasn't that interested.   Out of almost seven hundred pages, I only have two issues to read. 

That's about fifty pages, so I got through six hundred of them.   I was willing to buy the Silver Surfer two issue series, but only the second issue is up for sale as a digital comic, so, um, no.   I was going to cancel the library loan, and just deal with this being semi-incomplete - as unhappy as I am about that - because this does touch upon Inhumanity but it's already being sent, so even though I don't care that much, I'm going to read the final two issues.   And as much as I wasn't into Inhumanity, I am very much into both Warren Ellis' Karnak and the new Uncanny Inhumans.   And Inhumanity plays into those two series, and as I said, this touches upon the whys and how of Inhumanity.   Which, yes, means that I'll be slogging through the almost four hundred and fifty page Inhumanity next...  (And then the Infinity Companion, I think.)

Damn you for making this so easy, Marvel Unlimited!   

I do, however, want to get a bit of a better understanding of why Medusa left Black Bolt, and why Black Bolt is so willing to give up his kingdom.   I know what happened to Ahura - I renamed my Kindle Ahura, in case anyone is interested, because the bed is Black Bolt already - and I'm wondering if Inhumanity will tie more directly to Uncanny Inhumans #0.  

So, this was well written and gorgeously illustrated.  I expect Infinity: Against the Tide will hold up.  It's just... a lot.   It's a lot of fuckery, and even for a thousand page novel, this feels a little bit overwhelming.   Overwhelming things happen at overwhelming paces, and sometimes all at the same time. 

I hate how Marvel Unlimited has you bounce between series, too.   Instead of saying, hey, this can go to the next issue in this series, or the next issue in this event - like Comixology will - this just goes onto the next series.  So I had to have three series open and bounce between them.   And no, it doesn't work any other way, because the issues follow each other pretty immediately.   

Well, then, that was annoying, Marvel Unlimited. 

And the fuckery.  Like why is anyone surprised that Maximus is mad when his brother married his first cousin?   You've got to assume there's a royal amount of inbreeding going on with Attilan's royal family.   (See what I did there?)   Why is Thanos' solution to being scared of having kids to kill them all instead of, say, not having kids in the first place which would have spared him some nightmares?   Why is everyone surprised that Black Bolt isn't getting along with his wives, one of whom he loves - but is lying to, one of whom he hates, and the other three whom he is indifferent too?   (My friend frowned at this, and went, 'that's not right.   That's not how you should pick wives.   You should love them all.'   There was a silence, and I said, with a lot of sarcasm, 'yes, that's the problem with that whole thing.')

I just... Ugh.   And the whole incursion thing, yeah, I had almost forgotten about that.  I guess when you're dealing with two universe ending problems, the least immediate one goes on the back burner, but forgetting about it completely seems... unwise.   

I'm struggling with the rating.  Three stars?   Two?   Four?   I'm not sure.   I'm not sure how much I enjoyed this, to be honest, but I feel like it's an important read as far as the Marvel universe goes.   And seeing as post-Battleworld is very much 616 although, yes, with some changes, this is going to continue to be important.   Or at least some aspects of this will be.