Lately, Age of Ultron has become a frustrating read because the story has diverged wildly from the original conflict with Ultron to focus on a new alternate reality where Iron Man rules the world and Morgana le Fay is suddenly the greatest threat to humanity's existence. Not that this turn of events is without entertainment value, but it's impossible not to wonder what the purpose of this little side venture is. The good news is that issue #9 finally kicks the book back into gear and resumes its focus on the original conflict. The bad news is that this issue offers no indication of why this side story was necessary in the first place.
Brian Bendis doesn't waste a great deal of time continuing the Iron Man/Morgana le Fay conflict from last issue. Annoyingly, what material there is seems more intent on setting up a future Marvel event. Iron Man's cryptic warnings to Wolverine about broken timestreams read like exactly the sort of extended epilogue fare we've seen at the end of books like Fear Itself and Avengers vs. X-Men. Except, of course, that this isn't even the final issue. Again, it's not even that this material is dull, just that it fails to establish any sense of relevancy to the immediate Age of Ultron conflict. The fact that Ultron refuses to rear his head in a story named after him is becoming something of a running gag at this point.
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