Age of Ultron #6 (HERE BE SPOILERS!)

This issue is a complicated one.  On one hand, it's seriously ballsy, but, on the other hand, it was somewhat predictable and occasionally sloppy.

Bendis takes the interesting step of refocusing the past storyline on just Wolverine and Sue Storm.  (Unfortunately, he never explains where the other characters who traveled into the past with them went or why a young Nick Fury just conveniently arrived at his Savage Land base when Logan and Sue desperately needed a vehicle.)  Bendis uses this narrowed focus to have Logan and Sue argue the ethical dilemma at the core of the mission, weighing the life of Hank Pym against the lives of Ultron's victims.  (On a continuity point, Sue mentions that Ultron killed her children, but, per "Fantastic Four" #5 AU, I thought they were just stranded in space.  Did she just forget that she left them there?)  However, the predictability part comes into play with the end result; it seemed pretty unlikely that Sue would stop Logan from killing Hank with all those lives on the line.  (Continuing the parenthetical notations of sloppiness, one of my problems with this issue was the fight scene itself, since Bendis has Logan announce his presence to Hank.  Although I get that it sets up Sue's moral dilemma later in the issue, it seems unlikely that Logan would've taken that chance.  It would've been better to have an alarm sound or something.)

With Hank now dead and the future team defeated, it appears that we're going to be entering the Marvel Universe's version of the DCnU.  (That's the ballsy part.)  Assuming that Marvel isn't actually taking that step, Bendis now has two actions to undo to restore the Marvel Universe we all know.  First, he has to unkill Hank Pym and, second, he has to stop Ultron before he invades.  My guess is that Logan and Sue will serve the same role that Bishop did in "Age of Apocalypse," the institutional memory of the previous reality.  Sue seems the most likely candidate for getting the MnU's heroes to undo what's happened, but I'll admit that I'm not sure how excited I am about it.  It seems increasingly unlikely that anything from this event is going to persist after it concludes, sapping some of the energy from the book.  I mean, I'm not saying that should be the measure of how good the event itself is, given that I am overall enjoying it.  But, I'm starting to wonder whether the ending is going to be worth the effort.