So here’s a perplexing thing!  This is issue is the second part of a three-part story, which began in — follow me here — the Avengers: Ultron Forever one-shot.  The story will conclude in the third and final installment, Uncanny Avengers: Ultron Forever.  I won’t blame you for being confused, as I take objection to the idea that rather than have a simple three-issue Ultron Forever miniseries, we split it up into three one-shots, sacrificing clarity for the sake of having OMG NOT ONE BUT THREE ALL-NEW NUMBER-ONE ISSUES for Age of Ultron movie fans.  It’s not like each of the three issues feature three different teams of Classic, Diet, and Cherry Avengers fighting Ultron; it’s a three-part story over three issues.  I would think anybody picking up one issue out of the three is just going to be confused.  Bad form, Marvel!

As for the story itself, I recommend it – sure, it’s a watered-down Avengers Forever, but it’s still an Al Ewing story.  The first part was okay, if only for a nice long scene featuring Black Widow and Vision interacting like the longtime comrades they are, but it was mostly just Doctor Doom assembling our cross-temporal heroes (from Jim Rhodes in the Iron Man armor, to Danielle Cage as the Captain America of the future) and sending them off on their respective quests to defeat Ultron, who’s now… haha, whoops, the omnipotent All-Father of Asgard?  The Alan Davis art gives the story a classic feel, as does Al Ewing’s focus on these mismatched Avengers characters.  But this second part was a real stand-out, which, for me, was largely due to the footnotes that helpfully explained specifically where these characters were from in their respective storylines, which gives Al Ewing just so much credit in my eyes, since it makes it feel like he has those issues right at hand.