As much as I like comics, sometimes the fast action and rushed storyline that you find in a comic make their way into novels where they do not work very well. That's the same here. Tom DeFalco must have been planning a marvel comic book story rather then a Marvel novel because here he takes the X-Men and Spider-Man, The Guardians of the Galaxy, some of the 2099 heroes, and the rest of Marvel's future heroes and puts all into one book where there is little character development and too many things happening all at once which serves only to confuse the reader as to what's really going on. The climax is boring and uneventful too!