This here series has done a bunch of cool stuff and had great covers by Ross. It's also done some lame stuff. But recently it's back in the rad, realm. It's crazy to explain everything going on, but this issue had some nice concepts in it.
Some doofnik soldier from WWII snatches the Cosmic Cube from Doc Strange (I think it was him) just as he was gettign ready to fix everything. Soldier guy did this so he could use it to save his buddies back in WWII. So he went back and did so. But he forgot to shield himself and got shot and dropped the cube right at Red Skull's feet.
The heroes end up in an alternate world thanks do doofus. Enter 1945ish Nazi NYC and shit's gone bad. So what's left of the Avengers/Invaders (most of them got vaporized when dude stole the cube) have to dress up as old tyme heroes so as not to draw attention to the fact that they are from the future, yada yada yada. Time to punch some Nazis.
I'm a big ol' fan of The Twelve (which has apparently disappeared from reality) and seeing the heroes dressed up as Electro and what have you from the Golden Age is a gas. Yeah, a gas. They drop a few Zepplins on a bunch of Germans and have a laugh. The best bit was having to dress Luke Cage up so his skin color wouldn't show. So, he's lamping as The Black Avenger and not stoked about it. Things are back on track in the book and heading to a hopefully, Mega Panzer/Nazi Robot fueled conclusion. A fine read this week. Though Spiderman was pretty close to being my pick.
Also, this was a great one to read on the Metro, what with all the swastikas on the cover and all.
Though I noted a bigger fail after processing this photo (War of Kings #2 weird-ass panel split fail after the Blackbolt Robots blow up an enemy ship, go look for it) - this one is way funnier.
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