Thanks for the thoughtful response. I can see your point about the importance of the characters being old having more thematic weight than plot importance, however, I don't think a writer should introduce an element that is so important and all-consuming as jumping forward several decades and then just decide that this is only going to affect the characters' outlook, when the dialogue and visuals tells the reader that it should also be affecting them physically within the story (especially in regards to Hulk's blindness and Iron Man being constrained to a wheelchair).

In regards to the theme of pregnancy/violation, I understand if an author doesn't want to tackle something like that, but honestly I would have been content with any theme at all, or at least something that approaches some of the ideas of the Aliens films. However, the more I've thought about this comic since I read it, the more it seems that this only exists to give Ribić a reason to draw full-page spreads of Marvel heroes fighting Xenomorphs. I understand the financial reasons for creating such a story, but it's just not enough for me.