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Changing the Past in Time Travel, Or Not – Spectacular Spider-Man #300, Action Comics #998, X-Men Blue #22, Terrifics #1, Thanos #16, Iron Man #597, Avengers #682 Spoilers

Published Wed, 28 Feb 2018 07:00:36 -0600

There now follow spoilers for Spectacular Spider-Man #300, Action Comics #998, X-Men Blue #22, Terrifics #1, Iron Man #597, Avengers #682, Thanos #16, Infinity War Prelude #2, Detective Comics #575… and probably the end of the Doctor Strange movie now I think of it. Spoilers

Time travel has become a repeated plotline in Big Two comics of late. To be fair, it's always been around, but of late it has been the main course.

Marvel has had the original X-Men brought to the present, Rachel and Cable from the future, Avengers constantly finding themselves in the future, and the past, Ages of Ultron, Days of Future Pasts, 2099s and everyone keeps using Doctor Doom's Time Platform.

Yeah, like that in Thanos #16.

While DC Comics has Justice League children from the future, Five Years Later, Batman Beyond, dark Batmen from the future, Jor-El snatched from the past, Legionnaires trapped in the present and everyone keeps using Flash's Time Treadmill.

And everyone seems to want to try and change their past willy-nilly. But is that starting to wear thin? A reprise of the end of the Doctor Strange movie in the Infinity War Prelude #2 sets the tone, after they turned back the clock a few minutes in order to win a battle.

Consequences. A reckoning. Well…

Action Comics #998 sees Superman use the Treadmill to travel to the moment of his biological parents' death, commanded to do nothing by Booster Gold…

Which he obeys.

In Peter Parker, Spectacular Spider-Man #300 we learn that Doom's Time Platform is not what it once was.

With the Time Variance Authority namechecked as having made some alterations. No time changes are possible anymore.

While in Invincible Iron Man #597, it's not working at all. Ah, it's Bendis' final issues, continuity is the least of concerns, if it ever was. Maybe they'll get it working for #598.

While in X-Men Blue #22, they have resigned to this being a quirk of time and that they will return to their original timeline as originally intended at some point…

Unless that's all bollocks as well. The Terrifics #1 also wants to set the future in motion…

… with the revelation of an ancestor of a Legion Of Super-Heroes member centuries to come. A great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother to Phantom Girl.

Still, at least these two timelines are separate, with Marvel and DC Comics politics the way they are, we won't risk any kind of crossover right now, right Booster Gold in Action Comics #998?

Oh boy. Hey, Avengers #682…

… did someone just walk over his interdimensional grave?

You know China would love a time travel where nothing can change the past. But it seems that Booster Gold won't be giving it to them.

But as everyone from Baron Mordo to Skeetz says, there will be consequences… Brian Bendis comes along, fires all your writers and takes over the books…

AVENGERS #682 LEG
(W) Mark Waid, Al Ewing, Jim Zub (A) Sean Izaakse (CA) Mark Brooks
NO SURRENDER Part 8
One Avenger will gamble everything to save thousands – and the odds aren't in his favor! The Challenger reveals his ace in the hole, and Jarvis awakens from a mysterious coma long enough to cry four chilling words: "It's all a lie!"
Rated T+In Shops: Feb 28, 2018
SRP: $3.99

TERRIFICS #1
(W) Jeff Lemire (A) Joe Prado (A/CA) Ivan Reis
Bound together by fate, united by the spirit of exploration and hope for tomorrow, the Terrifics are bound from the Dark Multiverse of Metal! When Mr. Terrific, Metamorpho, Plastic Man and Phantom Girl find themselves literally bound together by a tragic accident, our team of unlikely allies must rely on one another to make their way back home. But a startling revelation on their return trip brings them face to face with a new mystery: Where in the universe is Tom Strong?
RATED T+In Shops: Feb 28, 2018
SRP: $2.99

X-MEN BLUE #22 LEG
(W) Cullen Bunn (A) Jacopo Camagni (CA) Arthur Adams
POISON X PART 4
• The X-MEN have given themselves a power boost – in the form of ALIEN SYMBIOTES!
• But their new powers have made them the targets of the symbiote-consuming POISONS!
Rated T+In Shops: Feb 28, 2018
SRP: $3.99

INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #597 LEG
(W) Brian Michael Bendis (A) Stefano Caselli, Alex Maleev (CA) R. B. Silva
THE SEARCH FOR TONY STARK Part 5
• Ironheart rises, Doom falls and Tony Stark emerges from the shadows!
Rated T+In Shops: Feb 28, 2018
SRP: $3.99

PETER PARKER SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #300 LEG
(W) Chip Zdarsky (A) Adam Kubert (CA) Marcos Martin
MOST WANTED Part 4
An oversized anniversary epic, told the only way your pre-eminent pals in the Spidey-Office know how – in the Mighty Marvel Manner! For weeks, the Tinkerer has been launching a campaign against his do-gooder brother, the Mason, and Spidey's nearly met his maker more than once trying to stop their sibling rivalry! With a little help from a tech-heavy team of Marvel heroes, Spider-Man takes the fight directly to Tinkerer! But Tinkerer's got tech of his own…and it's out of this world!
Rated T In Shops: Feb 28, 2018
SRP: $5.99

DETECTIVE COMICS #975
(W) James TynionIV (A/CA) Alvaro Martinez, Raul Fernandez
"THE TRIAL OF BATWOMAN"! In a 30-page anniversary story, Batwoman faces scrutiny from Batman and Red Robin but stands up for her actions. Will Batman allow her to continue bearing his symbol after everything she has done? In Shops: Feb 28, 2018
SRP: $3.99

ACTION COMICS #998
(W) Dan Jurgens (A) Brett Booth, Norm Rapmund (CA) Will Conrad
"BOOSTER SHOT" part six! Escape from Planet Zod! Superman and Booster Gold must escape to travel back to the present, where the life of the captured Sam Lane hangs in the balance!In Shops: Feb 28, 2018
SRP: $2.99

MARVELS AVENGERS INFINITY WAR PRELUDE #2
(W) Will Pilgrim (A) Jorge Fornes (CA) Ryan Meinerding
THE THREAT FROM ABOVE!
•  As a Master of the Mystic Arts, DOCTOR STEPHEN STRANGE has witnessed many unusual things…
•  …but none so powerful and potentially Universe-threatening as the existence of the INFINITY STONES!
•  Don't miss a detail of the galaxy-spanning story featuring IRON MAN, THOR, CAPTAIN AMERICA, VISION, SCARLET WITCH and more, and make yourself an Infinity Stone expert before this summer's blockbuster film!
Rated TIn Shops: Feb 28, 2018

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