Issue 2's cover is a huge improvement over the entire artwork of 1 - just check it out on this page! Loved, loved, loved it! Unfortunately, while art may have improved, the storyline is still continuity heavy!At the end of 1 and some of the crossovers, the Beyonder learns that physique is important to convey the right message. His first which is an amalgam of the uniforms of heroes and villains is a confusion and scares people. So he chose Steve Rogers as it seemed that Captain A commands respect. Obviously, it goes deeper than body shape but the Beyonder is like a child at this stage and the opening pages convey this perfectly!
From one scene to the next, he tries to understand sensations and some are quite funny. Example: when he learns that the emptiness he feels is hunger and he tries eating ... except he cannot distinguish between what is to be eaten and what is not!
Now we come to the crossover bit. While the Beyonder waltzes through the city, we see people in a riot and this is thanks to what is going on in FF. However, here it serves more as a backdrop i.e. unnecessary except to get us to buy FF. Sigh! Seriously, at first their issue serves as a backdrop and even when he actually encounters them, it feels unnecessary and forced upon
NO SPOILER ALERT
On the cover we see Spidey. So Spidey's contribution is that since the FF is busy, the Beyonder decides to go to Peter for advice and while some are helpful such as going to the WC (we kid you not), others not quite so
And then there's Power Man and Iron Fist - back when their own series was coming to an end and here is because the Beyonder was asked to go to them for protection (not that he needed it) and advice. And he learnt that there must be payment for services rendered ... and you should see his logic about translating from payment in cash to something ... else ... hehehe!
Ratings: 5/10 (saved by that cover)
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