To go on a tangent, my main problem with the story is with the scripting – not just the awful Stars & Stripes saves the world ending, but it suffers from the same problem as most Marvel What If…? stories of the time – our surviving heroes have somehow lived through all this carnage and destruction, and yet half of them die in a stupid fashion in rapid succession making you wonder how they’d lived so long.

I personally feel double-page spreads are grossly overused in most modern comics, as are splash pages. Neither Dreamwave or IDW make very good use of the space, it’s often just a scene with one or two characters that you can take in in about a second, and after a comic made up of the things you’re left feeling very unsatisfied.