James Spader to be Avengers Sequel's Ultron

The next instalment of the Avengers cinematic series is 2015's "Avengers: Age of Ultron", there's been a lot of talk about the upcoming addition to the Marvel cinematic universe recently, such as new characters ( with the possibility of the Wasp making an appearance ), a possible death of one of the lead characters, and now Marvel have revealed the actor set to play the robotic villain of the film, Ultron, that actor is James Spader.

Now, I'm assuming Spader will only be voicing the character in the film. I'm not familiar with any of the actor's work, but if he was chosen by Joss Whedon ( who did a pretty good job with the first film ), he's probably a good choice for the job.

The Avengers: Age of Ultron is directed by Joss Whedon and supposedly stars the main cast of the first movie; Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Scarlet Johhanson, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L. Jackson; along with new additions including James Spader and more. It's due to be released on May 1st 2015.

(Source: Marvel)

Review: Age of Ultron #7

Spoilers below!

I feel like this issue was a little bit dissapointing, this series seems to be abandoning storylines randomly. For example, the group of heroes who travelled to the future to stop Ultron? That never happened because Ultron was apparently now never created.

I was interested in seeing the usual heroes of the Marvel universe in this series but Bendis had created a new timeline and completely changed most of the heroes, which makes it very hard to feel invested in any characters or their situations because you can never be sure if they'll even exist in the next issue.

It doesn't explain what happened to the heroes who didn't travel to either the future or the past and you can be pretty sure that storyline won't be carried on.

I was enjoying the series before but I feel like it's being stretched too far and that they could've finished the story by now, and the time travelling plots and different timelines are definitely over complicating the story.

I do, however, really enjoy the art in this issue by Brandon Peterson and Carlos Pacheco. That, unfortunately, is all that I really enjoyed about this issue.

Hopefully this series will be back to it's regular standard in the next few issues.

Rating: 4/10