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Here it is at last, the end of No Surrender! Avengers #690 arrived in stores last week as the Avengers: Infinity War movie premiered around the world. What did reviewers think of our epilogue issue? Read on and find out…

• All-Comic: 8/10 “No Surrender was a great success and a joy to read. Top shelf art and great writing make this another classic Avengers story.”

• Caped-Joel: “No Surrender was a really good time and I feel we’re going to be talking about this for some time to come.”

• Comic Book Resources: “No Surrender manages to be simultaneously a story about each of these individual characters, and one about the entire Marvel Universe. One that made coming back week after week thrilling and borderline addictive.”

• Comic Book University: Grade: A “This was great…I don’t think this could’ve worked with many comic books, but it worked here.”

• Comic Book.com: 8/10 “After the climax, last issue, the final chapter of No Surrender ties up loose ends and sets its characters on new paths into the future.”

• Comic Book Corner 2.0: 8/10 “This was the best Avengers story written in a very long time…Very cinematic.”

• Comicosity: 10/10 “There’s a lot of what makes the Avengers such a fan favorite franchise: characters from across the Marvel Universe; the anxiety of rebuilding; the promise of hope; and the vow to meet any threat head-on.”

• Comicstorian: “I loved every panel of this series. This epilogue to allow us to say goodbye to our new friends was a wonderful send off.”

• Comicsverse: 8.5/10 “No Surrender was a quality comic book each week. That isn’t an easy feat. This will go down as one of Marvel’s greatest Avengers tales.”

• Diskingdom: “This is a good finish to the series, its been a blast reading this story each week and wish Marvel did this more often.”

• Do You Even Comic Book?: 10/10 “Considering the intensity and pace of the run–sixteen weekly issues–I freely admit that catching my breath feels great.”

• Fortress Of Solitude: 9/10 “One of my favorite Avengers stories in a long time. The story celebrated the past and looked forward to the future.”

• Geeked Out Nation: 9/10 “I don’t know how you can top this. There will always be a better Avengers story to come, but honestly this one had everything you could have wanted from a superhero story.”

• Multiversity: 8/10 “Avengers #690 is a charmingly intimate, yet large-scale sendoff for the bulk of the cast up making the weekly No Surrender storyline.”

• Professor Thorgi: “I love this series!…This is hand’s down my favorite Avengers story line since the Kurt Busiek days.”

• Rogues Portal: “Light on superhero action but heavy on sentiment, the weekly No Surrender saga comes to a satisfying end (with promising new beginnings) in Avengers #690.”

• Sci-Fi Pulse: Grade: B+ “Characters go their separate ways until called again and villainy takes a breather before causing more havoc.”

• Talking Comic Books: “Avengers #690 is a wonderful wrap up to the sixteen-part No Surrender storyline. With its delightful character moments and A-list creators it was a satisfying epilogue to a line wide revamp of the Avengers franchise and perfectly sets up the next evolution of the title.”