I kinda liked it - there were some very nice touches. Again, I think Millar's weakness is his dialogue. It's pretty poor. But his story and his character touches and ideas are all pretty solid, so good for him.
I am, however, disappointed. I expected this four-part issue to be focusing on the environment and Reed really having to deal with the global crisis. Not only that, but I actually expected them to go to Nu-World. (Maybe the cover to the second issue was a bit of a hint.)
Instead, all that was ignored so we could have a mecha-fight. A large robot who Millar decides can arbitrarily beat everyone in the MU (including Sentry - seriously, this is why I hate continuity. If the robot was just taking on nuclear military outposts, fine. There's no need to bring in Spidey and Wolverine and all the baggage that brings because in so doing, you kinda go - "Bull****. Sentry can fly him into the sun.") and then Reed 'out thinks' him. Why didn't he just ASK Alyssa if he was on the list? Why the stupid risk? It's very forced and contrived.
So... apart from the actual main plot - CAP and the fight with him - I think this was actually pretty damn good. Each of the four are well defined, Hitch's art is INCREDIBLE, and there's some good work in the setting - Nu-World, Sue's charity group, Johnny's girlfriend, etc. So... yeah. I honestly think Millar needs a writing partner to help him just like... I dunno say, "Dude. DO THIS. You're already doing half of it. Do the rest." kinda stuff.
It annoys me because I think it's small fixes and choices of direction and approach that are kinda... causing this title to stumble. There really is a LOT of good stuff in it.
Looking forward to the rest of the run.
