Geez, for a while it felt like this day would never come.

What started off as a sprawling, tedious retread of an idea (Secret Wars! What's old is new! Loogit all this new nostalgia titles!) became something so much more, and it was all thanks to the event-named book, 'Secret Wars' by Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic.

The epic that Hickman and Ribic were weaving kept encountering speed bumps, like long delays and the addition of a ninth issue. Other Secret Wars-connected comics ranged from good to comatose, so this book became the centerpiece of interest - this narrative was going to explain the only reset the Marvel Universe would ever experience.

So here we are, with the finale of the destruction and renewal of the MU, and it boils down to quarrel between two of Marvel's longest-running characters: Reed Richards and Doctor Doom.

This book roundhouses your heart from start to finish - it opens with the Black Panther (armed with an Infinity Gauntlet) going toe-to-toe with God Emperor Doom, and it's brutal. The Battleworld shakes with the combat, as Reed finally encounters his estranged family.