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Wholesomeness? Who’da believed a comic could make you appreciate family? It’s not perfect but it’s pretty close.

One problem with this book’s collected format is the first issue crosses over (twice) with the West Coast Avengers, so it’s off I go to read the interstitial pages elsewhere that Lee this story held together.

Grim Reaper still butthurt about his brother Simon Williams? You don’t say. Enlisting Ultron-12 to swap Vision’s mind into a stolen body to resurrect his brother? A little like using petrified wood to rebuild a tree with wood shavings, but what the hell eh?

Everyone needs a little family time, especially a dude whose hand got replaced with a scythe. I can’t imagine what his bathroom gymnastics must be like.

This series is quite a departure from the usual fare of the 80s: less beating-up-supervillains, more of the soap opera antics, with the journey of expectant parents layered beneath to keep it all contiguous.

It wouldn’t be the 20th century without some of those terribly-aging stereotypes: Wanda crying from “hormones�, Wanda accused of being hysterical, superheroes lounging around in their silken costumes (even at a Thanksgiving dinner - though oddly the one person who came in jeans was Magneto)

And a subplot about infidelity - Crystal snogging with some rando neighbour she met at the Thanksgiving dinner, then falling ill because of her affair, then Quicksilver running all over the moon and Earth in his rage, spouting classic lines like

“They wanted me to take her back - swallow my pride and accept that soiled woman back in my arms!�

“The pleasures of the flesh rule other men, it not me! I am lean, and tight - flesh is my enemy!�

All in all, even given the cornucopia of expository 80s dialogue, and the ridiculously forced villainy, this is a wholesome story and out of the ordinary for comics of any age since I’ve been reading them. It’s nice to see main characters getting along, getting what they want and having a reasonably pleasant ending.