Future's End takes us into the near future - five years, to be exact - as a time-traveling hero arrives to try to prevent an apocalyptic future from taking place. (Sounds familiar, doesn't it?)
The great thing about stories like that is that anything can happen - heroes die, there's widespread destruction, lots of angst and shocks - that sort of thing.
The problem with such stories is that anything can happen - but they can all be fixed with a temporal adjustment, so none of it ends up mattering.
It's an action-packed beginning to the event, as an incredibly powerful and mysterious menace appears; a lone hero is on a killing rampage; a super-team faces destruction; and oh, that final page.
The art by Patrick Zircher is nicely done, and the story is certainly action-packed - but once they start bumping off heroes, you just know it's all going to get reversed and/or fixed by the end.
I hate to be a spoilsport, but you have to think about these things when they expect you to drop more the $150 to pick up the whole story.
I'll have to pass on this one.
Grade: B
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