If you end up skipping the beginning, I’d still recommend reading the events of this episode, which start with Issue 27, because there are a few changes and it’s just a really intense fight. You will end up re-reading a few a plot points that have already been adapted (Robot getting his new body, the Re-animen, etc) but you won’t miss anything all that important
The comic has him lose to the other Viltrumite but he gets in a lot of hits and survives fighting him for hours. Mark holds his own in that fight
There’s one point where she derisively says Rex thought her powers were just making pink constructs appear but to be honest you can’t really blame him because that’s all she ever uses them for in fights.
Even with the mental block, she should be able to crush Robot without blinking but during that whole fight she’s still just firing pink blasts. Idk why it’s bugged me so much, but there was a particularly egregious example during the last fight with Robot where Mark tells Tech Jacket to blast through the walls of the Pentagon so she can get in. Eve should be able to turn the steel and concrete into sand with a snap of her fingers, why does she need to get led in?
There’s a general lack of creativity when using her powers. Her “arch-nemesis” is Killcannon, a guy whose entire power relies on a non-organic weapon attached to his arm. She should be able to turn people’s guns into flowers, she could turn people’s clothes into lead to fix them in place, if she wanted to kill someone she could change the air in their lungs into iron. We see a million evil Marks, I’d be interested in seeing what an evil alternate dimension Eve would look like with her powers completely untethered from morality, but the comic is uninterested in that sort of thing.
The comic explicitly states that she and Mark can work together while Amber and Mark don’t because Eve is a superhero and understands that part of his life. Despite that, from the time she gets pregnant until the end of the story she serves mostly as a damsel in distress for Mark to save and as an authorial mouthpiece to tell you what lesson Mark should have learned from the previous story arc. The full extent of her physical contributions during the back half of the story are when her powers kick in to ctrl-z whatever gory death she or Mark just experienced and then temporarily rescuing Omni-Man at the end.
Throughout the entire story I was waiting for her to finally be taken seriously by the story but she just never is. I really hope the show fixes that.
The Lizard League fight has to happen simultaneously with the sequid fight to explain why all the strongest heros are off-Earth, and the sequid fight is important for Mark and the Immortal’s relationship, so I think Mark has to present for it. There will probably be a B plot on Earth just to keep us engaged but it won’t have anything to do with the Lizard League I think
They cut both of the lines that were used for the episode titles, I wonder if that’s going to continue
The fight was the first time in the entire series where I thought the comic was unambiguously better than the show