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***SPOILERS AHEAD! I REPEAT, SPOILERS!***
I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this story, as overall I have found the beginning of the 90s to be less enjoyable than I hoped. There was a very decent mix of interpersonal issues and action - I especially enjoyed the problems between Captain America and Iron Man, and Clint's attempts to help Cap out. I read a blog post years ago that placed the beginning of the personal problems outlined in Civil War between Cap and Iron Man in this story arc, and while many of their problems are predicated on even older issues, I understand that position completely.
I also enjoyed Vision and Wonder Man finally having it out - it was good to see Simon be more serious and vulnerable, as previously I found it hard to take his feelings for Wanda very seriously - and indeed, could never really find the man that Vision was supposed to be based on inside Simon Williams. It also highlighted the dangers of Vision's lack of empathy; he had previously been held in check by the Avenger's mission statement to protect Earth, but as the people they were dealing with were alien, Vision felt more than justified in sacrificing them to save human lives.
The interactions between US Agent, Mockingbird and She-Hulk were also great - in general I am really pleased to see that the Avengers are getting a good balance between dealing with personal issues, dealing with complex thematic issues (even if the racially charged riots of Avengers 343 and 343 might suggest otherwise), and showing great action.
I thought the writers did a particularly good job of coordinating, between titles, as the story always felt continuous, managing to focus on whichever group the title was most concerned with (with some exception in the group Avengers titles, due to the way the groups were split up) without sacrificing the story.
If I had a complaint it was that I was so sure that the heroes would win, that I did not quite believe it when the nega-bomb went off, and the Kree Empire was destroyed. This was reinforced by the apparent death of the Avengers, who I was quite certain were not dead, and so for some time I suspected a time-travel scenario might be brought in to sort everything out. Kudos to the writers for not taking the easy way out, in that case, but it meant that for me the destruction never quite sank in the way, for example, Phoenix' destruction of a star and the 5 billion lives it supported did. It is, of course, ironic, that the very thing Vision and Simon were arguing about, that alien lives were not worth less than human, is not true from a writers' perspective. The writers could afford to kill off the Kree empire, shocking the reader, and bringing about the intriguing moral quandary at the end, which they could never do if the story only concerned earth, as they would be killing off the universe they wrote in, and destroying the Marvel franch
