Nothing this week. I did download the new Brubaker from last week I still need to read

-R

Thanks MRPs_Missives. I'll pop into my LCS and see if they have it.

G.O.D.S. #3 by Jonathan Hickman, Valerio Schiti and Marte Gracia

Plot: And another piece gets added to the board. Amelia is a Cassandra, the fifth and last one in the history of the world. Like the name implies, Cassandra's see the future with high accuracy but are fated to be disbelieved. So she does what the other Cassandra's never did and starts to use her own knowledge to gather the pieces she needs to avoid the future.

Meanwhile Wynn and the Centum are meating with Dr. Strange as a mediator to discuss the movements of the In-Betweener and the implications that his actions are not isolated, but that all the lesser gods and greater gods are preparing for something. And one of the greater gods acts in this issue: Oblivion.

Art: Schiti gets to do more this time around and I like the representation of the ever-shifting and changing Oblivion. I've been harsch on Schiti the last two issues, but this time I have no negative comments. Strange keeps shifting to his Black Priest look from Secret Wars when confronted by events from that time, which there is no real explanation for, nor is it adressed in the text at all.

Writing: Still a bit of setup with the introduction of Amelia/Cassandra, but it's a good bit of writing. We quickly get what her deal is (of course, with mythology-based characters we usually already have that starting framework), how she got where she is and the losses she experienced.
Mia gets to interact with Dimitri who are kinda mirror images of each other and the interaction is mostly light and fun, though Dimitri, being part of the Centum's side is surprised to learn that they have recruited a mage without him even knowing.
And we get a bit of new Marvel Lore: there are many lesser gods, but 8 greater gods with Oblivion being marked as one of them. (So the rest would obviously be Eternity, Infinity and Death. Powers-that-Be (Magic) and Natural-Order-of-Things (Science) are also said to be part of it, so that leaves two more. Order and Chaos? (I think that Ewing's Ultimates has been kinda forgotten/retconned regarding their new form) But that kinda overlaps with Powers and Natural Order, I think. Two other new ones? I don't think that it's going to be Galactus, the Phoenix and those type of entities as these all seem to be more of the abstract entities, but you never know.)

For new readers: The setup seems to be done now and the story starts to move. Still interested where it's going, but still something I can't recommend for now. It all depends on how the story develops.