Brian Michael Bendis starts Age of Ultron exactly as he said. Ultron has taken over and patrolling the skies. He starts off showing us how much of a bad a** Hawkeye is as we follow him rescue one of his own from Hammerhead and The Owl. We eventually see who it is that Barton is rescuing and this is where Age of Ultron will start to confuse some of you hardcore continuity nuts because it turns out the captured hero is The Superior Spider-Man (or maybe it's The Amazing Spider-Man). You see while it has been said to take place during Marvel NOW, this Spider-Man appears to be Peter Parker. Now after breaking out Spider-Man we go through a lot of what I feel are wasted panels as all we see is Ultrons showing up and having Spidey's captures yelling that Ultron promised them. Then what felt like an expected and dragged on escape by Clint and Spidey we get to what I wish there was more of. We see some of our favorite heroes hiding away and with Luke Cage yelling at Barton that he shouldn't have came back. Yet just as I was getting a little bored by this book I get a jolt of interest as in the final panel we are shown what appears to be an extremely broken Captain America and this alone has me pumped to see what happened to the man who once said...
"I can't surrender. I don't know how! "
-- Captain America
So while Age of Ultron did feel short and sometimes dull it did a good job at building anticipation and made me want to learn how Ultron took over and so I give Age of Ultron #1 a ...
7/10