Oh, this is much better. It's still a little hooked on the saccharine, because it's no surprise to anyone that the League is back together I'm sure, even though its apparent dissolution was the best thing about the last issue. Honestly, I would have preferred that the events leading to the break-up were left as they were, underlying the fundamental dislocation between all these worlds. I mean, I know superhero narratives tend to be about drawing people together, but I enjoyed the few minutes of hope I had that the script was going to be flipped here. As it is, that dislocation has entered the text rather thoroughly anyway, with the dark elves demonstrating just how very alien they are. And because of it, Malekith has at last begun to seem an interesting and credible threat for me - I'm far more interested in plotting under the surface than battle scenes, and that the latter were used as camouflage for the former here seems to be a good use of them, for once.