Avengers #33 Review

Jonathan Hickman’s era of adventures have been often, if not always, heavily laced with high concepts and science fiction fun. Avengers #33 is a prime example of this as it continues to explore the story of our time lost heroes. More than that though, this issue introduces a terrifying, but fascinating sci-fi threat that makes this issue an entertaining and exciting read.

This issue focuses on Captain America, who is seemingly the last of the Avengers still traveling further into the future. He arrives in a place completely devoid of humanity and soon finds out why. Hickman’s main threat of the issue is unique, scary, and truly interesting both as a villain and a sci-fi concept. Cap faces this threat alone which is definitely riveting to read, but since this is an Avengers book, it’s a bit of a bummer that he’s basically the only hero featured in this issue. This is by design of course, and Hickman does find an interesting way to get at least another version of the Avengers in the issue, but it still feels more like an issue of Captain America than anything else.

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