MIGHTY AVENGERS #6Written by Brian Michael Bendis
Art by Frank Cho
Well, I honestly don't know what to say. This so-called 'conclusion' to the Ultron story was nothing but a joke and after all the delays, the art looked rushed and sloppy compared to Cho's earlier issues. Actually, the art starts off great, but progressively gets worse as the issue goes on, ending with a terrible rendition of Spider-Woman.
The issue picked up where we left off last issue with Ares entering Ultron's mouth after being shrunk with Pym Particles. We get a little bit of explanation as to what, exactly, Hank actually did with the Commodore 64 he requested. Apparently, he made a small computer trip, written completely in Fortran or BASIC or some other outdated language and gave it to Ares. He, basically, has to just attach it to a big glowing orb inside Ultron's body and it will destroy it and revert the DNA back into Tony Stark.
First off, what the hell? The basic assumption is that Ultron will not have bothered assimilating outdated code and it will make it vulnerable to that programming language. Again, what the hell, Bendis? This doesn't make sense even in comic book science. Any old language like that wouldn't even be able to interface properly with Ultron and Tony's Extremis body, let alone be a super virus that could shut it down and reconfigure Tony's DNA.
I was also under the impression the ending would explain Ultron's appearance in Annihilation: Conquest, but the only thing that happens is Ultron's old visage turns on a computer monitor in Hank's lab, show's his face to no one and then shuts the monitor off. In all honesty, I figured Sentry would throw Ultron into the Sun or something and the Phalanx would pick his broken body up in space. I guess it'll be up to the Conquest guys to explain Bendis' retarded usage of Ultron.
The only good thing to come out of this issue was the fact Bendis didn't actually kill off Sentry's wife. How she survived is a mystery to me, but apparently Ultron used a hologram or life model decoy or something to make it look like she was killed so Sentry would go insane. It's actually never explained outside of her showing up and saying she's alive. Oh ya, Spider-Woman shows up with the Skrull Elektra body at the end of this issue. The big solicit stating how this is an important Secret Invasion moment is just that one panel at the end of the book.
Verdict - Avoid It. Nothing to see here, move along.
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