This issue extends the Thanos / Ronan storyline from a year ago, or so. When our group returns from the Russian wastelands, they find part of Manhattan encases within a cube shaped energy field. Obviously, this has something to do with Reeds work. Since they are the only ones that can access it, they go in to the Baxter building and find that it was reacting to the threat of a Seed team that had been sent there by the Halcyon. Reed, who has been single minded in creating the Cube, ever since returning from their world, never stopped to consider why the information may have been planted in his brain. Apparently it was a weapon that Thanos possessed some 30,000 years ago, and with it he almost entirely exterminated the Halcyon. Which is why they are so determined to get it back, now that it has been re-created. However, being the genius he is, Reed also programed it only to accept his commands. I'm sure that can be changed, but, for now, he's the only one that can control it. He uses that control to dispense the Seed team and send it back to it's ship. But Halcyon isn't going to give in that easily. If they can't take the control mechanism, then they'll just take the entire cube, including part of Manhattan, with them. On the final page they appear to have some towing ships in place and are removing the cube, and part of the bedrock of the island with it, to take back to their world . . I guess. Mike Carey writes this issue. He wrote the original story also. But this time Tyler Kirkham does the art. It's not as stylized as Pasqual Ferry's, but . . it's nice. I believe he's a TopCow artist, so it definitely has that Image feel to it. You know what I mean. Overall . . I thought it was a good book.
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