"But it quickly began to tailspin with the Avengers: Standoff! event, which was built around one of the laziest plot devices in the Marvel Universe: the Cosmic Cube….."

Yea, I read that line and thought "huh?"

I guess for me, the meat of that issue is the Batman/Reverse Flash fight and the use of the 60 second countdown.

It's this thing where you go "Ok I can see how this would seem to be a good idea but in this current political climate it's massively bad timing."

I'll agree with you about Alan Moore's right to perpetually bitch about Watchmen, especially since DC clearly never want him to regain ownership rights…..

Tess?

Heh, I actually thought Claire had more chemistry with Matt tbh,……

The Fast & Furious movies can answer that for you……