I just figured out my problem with this title -- it really should be a TV series.
Granted, that would be totally expensive, given some of the "effects" we've seen, so far. (Especially with the big space-station-type thing that Izanami communicates with.)
But it would at least feel like we'll be getting some much-needed plot momentum sooner, rather than later.
It doesn't help that the story structure has a LOT of similarities with Heroes. But Heroes (more or less) aired a new episode, on a weekly basis, throughout the first season.
With newuniversal, we need to wait up to a month and a half for a continuation of storyline that will contain about as much narrative content as an episode of a prime-time TV series. And that's just waaay too long.
Granted, that content is often superior to about 95% of anything else that Marvel is publishing right now. But it's just too damn slim for a comic being released on a normal schedule.
If newuniversal #6 were the sixth weekly episode of newuniversal Season One, then maybe i'd be a little more satisfied. But as it stands, TV has totally spoiled me, in that sense, with regards to the pace of storytelling that i've come to expect.
