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Power Man: Timeless #3 Review

  • Written by: Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly
  • Art by: Bernard Chang
  • Colors by: Marcel Maiolo
  • Letters by: VC’s Travis Lanham
  • Cover art by: Andrei Bressan, Rachelle Rosenberg (cover A)
  • Cover price: $3.99
  • Release date: April 16, 2025

Power Man: Timeless #3, by Marvel on 4/16/25, begins round three against Aeon the Knife, but this time, Apocalypse joins the fight. Can Ever and the Celestial Mind stop the madness, or is Aeon’s secret plan complete?

Is Power Man: Timeless #3 Good?

Recap

When we last left the uber-powered Luke Cage from the future in Power Man: Timeless #2, Luke began the second round of battle against Aeon the Knife. During the fight, we learned Aeon was an Inhuman, transformed into an untouchable killing machine after being forced to inhale Terrigen Mist. When his overlords tried to use Aeon for their own means, Aeon rebelled and began a galaxy-wide campaign of destruction. The issue ended with Aeon losing the second round, but the battle was big enough to crack open the planet Mercury, revealing a massive brain. Out of frustration, Aeon flies to Mars to find another challenger, and he comes face-to-face with Apocalypse.

Plot Synopsis

In Power Man: Timeless #3, the battle begins again. Luke Cage and Eversight discuss what to do next in the presence of the Celestial Mind, now free from the core of Mercury. Ever tells Luke that Aeon has gone to Mars to fight, but Luke is surprised because there is no life on Mars in his timeline. She tells Luke about the mutants who have made a home on Mars, but she encourages Luke to avoid a fight he can’t win. Luke refuses because he knows Aeon will go after Earth next.

Luke flies to Mars and finds most of the mutant colony wiped out, except for Apocalypse. Ever stays behind and is invited to merge with the Celestial Mind for maintenance and repairs. When Luke searches the rubble, he finds a badly injured Apocalypse and offers him a team-up to take Aeon down. Thus begins round three.

However, the Celestial Mind realizes Aeon has a deeper agenda. When Ever tries to escape the Celestial Mind, it traps her and takes over her body as its new host. What is Aeon’s secret plan? He destroys Apocalypse and forces Luke Cage to unleash the Void, giving Aeon the opportunity to cut the Void loose.

Now, Luke Cage must fight Aeon the Knife and the unchained Void.

First Impressions

This may sound like an odd reaction, but I don’t care about Aeon the Knife, what he’s doing, or why. If I barely care about the hero, and I don’t care about the villain, all the spectacle and big battles in the world can’t make the comic compelling. It’s big and loud but soulless.

How’s the Art?

Bernard Chang is a top-tier artist, so it’s no surprise that he’s giving his all into making the cosmic aspects of this story as eye-catching as possible. Ever’s interaction with the Celestial Mind is trippy, in a good way. Aeon’s fight against Luke Cage and Apocalypse gets brutal, and the visual style of the comic matches the scale of the story.

What’s great about Power Man: Timeless #3?

If you want big, over-the-top battles and cosmic weirdness, Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly give you what you want. On pure power and damage alone, Aeon presents a formidable threat that could put a Celestial to shame, and the stakes for Earth appear to be incredibly high.

What’s not great about Power Man: Timeless #3?

There isn’t a drop of soul or relatable connection in this issue. Aeon decides to destroy the world because… his condition prevented him from getting hugged enough as a child? Maybe? A less generous reviewer could say Lanzing and Kelly are using Aeon to make a statement about Incels, but who knows. Aeon is ridiculously overpowered and his motivations are one-dimensional, so there’s no importance to his character. At best, this issue feels like you’re playing the next mission in a sub-par video game.

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Final Thoughts

Power Man: Timeless #3 is big, loud, and full of action spectacles, but there isn’t a drop of importance or emotional relatability to be found. Lanzing and Kelly churned out the equivalent of a sub-par fighting video game without the character work. Only Bernard Chang’s epic visuals make this comic worth skimming.

5/10

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