Infinity

The tale that Hickman gives in this book is amazing overall. The prelude to Infinity is a nice touch and sets up the main story well. The Black Order are an interesting set of characters, and live up to their threat. The plot itself is good, continuing where the New Avengers/Illuminati are dealing with Incursions, while the Avengers take charge in space to combat the Builders. The confrontation with Thanos was done well, and Thane is a character well done. The artwork is amazing and captures the attention for readers. Overall I would recommend this book, though for those that have not read on Hickman's run on Avengers and New Avengers might be confused.

Great story woven into the End Times story arc. Less Illuminati and incursions, more of how do we stop Thanos.
For Thanos lovers this is his last major conquest before everything changes with Secret Wars so you will probably want to get your hands on it.
If you read Avengers and New Avengers (End Times & Time Runs Out) and still have questions, this will fill in a lot of the blanks.

Usually I love Hickman, but he has the tendency to over think plots sometimes. That's what I felt was wrong with this book. Over blown space story lines that a lot of people might find dull. Not The best event but still moderately entertaining. Love the digital copy that Marvel includes with their books.

Poorly written story where classic characters are twisted to fit marketing for MCU. I was so disappointed by this I gave it away for free to a coworker in spite of its hefty price tag. There is nothing in this story or writing that draws you in. Major events are given no weight and are thus meaningless. Thanos is not really part of the main story.

A Few Specific Complaints: (!!!!SPOLIER ALERT!!!)

- Captain America leading an intergalactic starfleet because of his leadership abilities - Really? What in this character's background makes him qualified to do this other than the popularity of his movies?
- Thanos requiring planets to murder all of their babies as tribute to him - unnecessarily grotesque violence in an otherwise bland PG book.
- Black Panther defeating Thanos minion Black Dwarf. Why not have Punisher defeat Thanos while were at it?

Returned, though listed for my STS Cadillac, wiper is wrong size, returned for refund

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Pretty epic. Put together very well. I love the way it's told as one big story. The three series are put together in the proper reading order with no breaks or covers or separations between them and the book reads very smoothly because of that. The art is also very good to great throughout. There are definitely aspects of the story that aren't fully explained or felt with within this book because that are part of a longer narrative (more explanation of the incursions would have been good), but the main plot of the builders and Thanos is well done. The plots are connected only because Thanos takes advantage of th Avengers absence to invade the Earth, but it works well and leads to a nice climax. Characters can get a bit lost in everything that's going on, but overall this makes for a fun, epic, big story that looks great, and (as I said) I love the way the book is put together for the best reading experience.

It’s the conclusion to the Infinity series with a lot of answers. If you’re like me you haven’t read the whole spread of graphic novels and therefore have to piece a few things together.

All said this is a wonderful series with big artistic presentations by a variety of artists (two pages of credits in the big hardcover). Hickman wields the many stories within and sometimes they get unruly. Arguably there is too much going on and moreover a whole saving of the galaxy/galaxies with the same old crew feels a bit worn out when there are so many other topics that could be covered.

The Avengers are off to not only save Earth this time around but arguably several galaxies as the Builders, an advanced civilization which claims to have started life, decide Earth must be destroyed.

I could say a lot more but I risk giving the readers spoilers. So, on that note, I enjoyed the development of Black Bolt, Outriders, Thanos and his ilk, Thor’s big bad hammer, Black Dwarf and The Mother.

MY GRADE: B plus.

pretty good but i couldn't really follow the story which is the only reason why this loses one star
To save the world from ever-greater dangers, the Avengers got bigger. Yet when the oldest race in the universe marks Earth for destruction, it's time for Captain America to think grander still. As the most powerful Avengers team ever assembled heads into space to join an intergalactic alliance against the ancient Builders, an old enemy deems their home unprotected. Thanos, the Mad Titan, unleashes his forces on Earth in the latest chapter of his endless quest for death. But even a world without Avengers has its defenders. Among them, the secret cabal of history-shapers known as the Illuminati - a group riven with internal confl ict already confronting another planet-ending crisis. As Earth's Mightiest Heroes wage war on multiple fronts, their battle for Infinity threatens to descend into Inhumanity.

COLLECTING: INFINITY 1-6, NEW AVENGERS 7-12,AVENGERS 14-23

Infinity may be one of the worst modern day Marvel stories that I have read. This book contains two different plots (The Builders come to destroy all worlds and Thanos conquers Earth) and smashes them together in such a haphazard way that it is difficult to follow. Thanos barely receives any time in the first half of the series and then suddenly dominates the second half. The portion with the builders jumps from location to location so quickly that you are never truly sure where the heroes actually are in that moment or where they are going to next. Universe ending story lines can be fun if told well and with good focus but you won't find either of these things contained within the pages of Infinity.

Jonathan Hickman has always been hit or miss for me and here's a big miss. The art saved this book from being worse. The plot is incredibly dense. Thanos is an afterthought and then all of a sudden destroying the world. The idea of his Black Order doesn't fit with his M.O. but thanks to great art, looked cool. The Builders, Engineers, Alephs, etc. was nonsense. I can't imagine how this reads with just the mini-series. So much of it relied on the "tie-in" books. Overall, a giant missed opportunity. Sad.

This is really a long-winded entwining of three barely intertwining stories made to mesh at the same time: story A is the early death of the Marvel multiverse as universes are destroyed at the collision point of two alternate earths; the initial collision caused some sort of unnatural contraction causing a ripple effect that continues to make multiversal earth's collide. Story B is Thanos' mad quest to kill off his offspring, in this case his son, an Inhuman located on earth. He commands a vast lethal army that is laying waste to universe on his quest. Story C is that of a group of universal/multiversal Builders cutting a swath of destruction as they are on a trajectory to destroy earth (616) in what I think is their way of slowing down the destruction of the multiverse. It gets a little confusing and reading it all together it gets a little tiring.

Because the Avengers essentially save the universe when other far more advanced societies couldn't they gain new respect across the universe's alien races and world after world throughout the universe becomes an "Avengers World" when they are saved by earth's mightiest heroes. Meanwhile a secret cabal of heroes who designate themselves as the Illumnati are actively thwarting the destruction of earth 616 by destroying or making sure the other alternate earth's are destroyed. This storyline (which contains the excellent tension between Atlantis and Wakanda and heads-of-State the Black Panther and Namor) is carried on well after this collection. This collection primarily takes care of storylines B & C.

This is flat out, the worst book by Johnathan Hickman I ever read. For some reason his Avengers run has fallen so far behind Rick Remender's despite attempting to go Bigger and Better.

This is what the core team has been building towards, the ultimate threat we've been hearing about. The Engineers of the Universe are tearing through it destroying any planet that does not submit to them. It's pretty much the Prometheians from "Mass Effect" and probably a dozen other Sci-Fi stories. The Galactic coalition fails until the Avengers are put in charge, and suddenly they pull an American Revolution against the enemy that was trouncing them not long ago. No explanation, no magic power-ups, just them realizing how badass they are if all the other advanced aliens just listen to them and follow their lead.

Meanwhile, the Illumanati are dealing with Parallel Earths invading their Universe when Thanos invades looking for the last of his offspring to kill. Why? Because Evil Bad Guy Reasons. The fact that 99% of the Avengers are off-planet just means now is the time to kill his son we're only now hearing about.

There's some good subplots involving Namor and T'Challa having a feud, and Black Bolt trying to save his species. There's great art too, but it changes so often you can forget that. The main problem is this book is boring. So much happens but Hickman doesn't make you care why its happening or who it's happening to. 400+ pages of that is just a waste.

You could say there's a theme of "Nothing can stop us if we stick together" or "The ones pulling the strings will get theirs" but I feel like that's reaching. It's Micheal Bay action posing as Christopher Nolan theatrics. You want Good Hickman stories? Pick literally ANYTHING besides his New/Avengers work.

This is really a long-winded entwining of three barely intertwining stories made to mesh at the same time: story A is the early death of the Marvel multiverse as universes are destroyed at the collision point of two alternate earths; the initial collision caused some sort of unnatural contraction causing a ripple effect that continues to make multiversal earth's collide. Story B is Thanos' mad quest to kill off his offspring, in this case his son, an Inhuman located on earth. He commands a vast lethal army that is laying waste to universe on his quest. Story C is that of a group of universal/multiversal Builders cutting a swath of destruction as they are on a trajectory to destroy earth (616) in what I think is their way of slowing down the destruction of the multiverse. It gets a little confusing and reading it all together it gets a little tiring.

Because the Avengers essentially save the universe when other far more advanced societies couldn't they gain new respect across the universe's alien races and world after world throughout the universe becomes an "Avengers World" when they are saved by earth's mightiest heroes. Meanwhile a secret cabal of heroes who designate themselves as the Illumnati are actively thwarting the destruction of earth 616 by destroying or making sure the other alternate earth's are destroyed. This storyline (which contains the excellent tension between Atlantis and Wakanda and heads-of-State the Black Panther and Namor) is carried on well after this collection. This collection primarily takes care of storylines B & C.

This is flat out, the worst book by Johnathan Hickman I ever read. For some reason his Avengers run has fallen so far behind Rick Remender's despite attempting to go Bigger and Better.

This is what the core team has been building towards, the ultimate threat we've been hearing about. The Engineers of the Universe are tearing through it destroying any planet that does not submit to them. It's pretty much the Prometheians from "Mass Effect" and probably a dozen other Sci-Fi stories. The Galactic coalition fails until the Avengers are put in charge, and suddenly they pull an American Revolution against the enemy that was trouncing them not long ago. No explanation, no magic power-ups, just them realizing how badass they are if all the other advanced aliens just listen to them and follow their lead.

Meanwhile, the Illumanati are dealing with Parallel Earths invading their Universe when Thanos invades looking for the last of his offspring to kill. Why? Because Evil Bad Guy Reasons. The fact that 99% of the Avengers are off-planet just means now is the time to kill his son we're only now hearing about.

There's some good subplots involving Namor and T'Challa having a feud, and Black Bolt trying to save his species. There's great art too, but it changes so often you can forget that. The main problem is this book is boring. So much happens but Hickman doesn't make you care why its happening or who it's happening to. 400+ pages of that is just a waste.

You could say there's a theme of "Nothing can stop us if we stick together" or "The ones pulling the strings will get theirs" but I feel like that's reaching. It's Micheal Bay action posing as Christopher Nolan theatrics. You want Good Hickman stories? Pick literally ANYTHING besides his New/Avengers work.

There were just way too many characters in way too many situations from way too many series to keep proper track of. There are some cool moments and great action but the book left me feeling like I was missing at least 90% of the information and the ending makes it seem like all this is just a prelude to something even bigger, so it doesn't really end.

I read this through Comixology Unlimited and it was a fun read. It was also a good palette cleanser after the annoyance that was the movie Avengers Infinity War. Part of the trick here is that it's one complete story. You're not waiting a year or more for the next film. However, at the same time there's still annoying bits to it but the good far outweighs the bad.

First the good is Jonathan Hickman on writing. He was one of the first guys I ever read stuff by and he's stated consistently good. He doesn't bother a ton with character development but instead stages Rube-Goldberg style plots for people to fight their way through. Yes, the book can be grim but unlike Infinity War the tone isn't defeat. It's struggle. It's not one note sadness or smug. The 2 main tones of modern comics and particularly comic book movies.

The illustration work is great too. Everyone involved is doing great work. The characters all get cool space suits, have these exaggerated features that make them look special and powerful. Captain America and crew are typically drawn with backs that look as broad as a pick up truck. The battle scenes are well done too. Never are the characters really lost in the fray.

Interestingly Captain Marvel is already in a state of flux here. Some people are drawing her with long hair, butch hair, and high fashion model hair. Her personality is already a little odd mostly cause she's a bit cipher-ish. Kind of jammed in because of an editorial push it seems. Hilariously despite words on the page most likely meant for a guy character like Hawkeye she's drawn like a swimsuit model in every scene. Something that you'd never see now. It's a shame too because the character is more interesting that way. The contradictory words, actions and visuals code the character as conflicted and oddly interesting. Sadly something that the characters isn't now that she's just a token fascist after Kelly Sue DeConnick got done wrecking her.

The story is super long. It might not be an issue for some people but I did find it to be a few issues too many. I still enjoyed for what it was though. Worth picking up cause you're at least getting your money's worth. Best of all, it's way better than the Infinity War movie.

Cause really... the story is THAT boring! I nodded off on the train countless times trying to get through this during the past couple of days that I now just left it back on my shelf. I couldn't even finish the last 100 pages of this. I get that I have to read Avengers Vol 1 and 2 as well as New Avengers 1 to get caught up and so I have! And even still!... I found this story tries wayyyy too hard to try and sound epic with complicated terms and explanations as to whats going on but fails in nearly every way for me. It sorta sucks the fun out of everything.

I also really found the Starbrand to be a stupid character, possibly because this crossover is soooo massive with possibly 100 different heroes jammed into this book that they all really don't get any character development. How could they? with this much characters, the book jumps around all over the place and doesn't read smoothly. Any characterization of the main avenger characters or villians that could've been done in the early books leading up to this was disappointing as well. Anyway, the starbrand is this new hero who was a nobody and got chosen. He's also a potential planet buster but for the majority of the book... he really does nothing. Maybe the last 100 pages he plays a crucial role but that's just awful story telling to have a planet buster at your arsenal in like 5 pages of the 500 i've read.

I get that huge crossovers like this can get a little confusing sometimes with all the different series combined into one but all if not most were written by Jonathan Hickman! There must be some epic boil up and all there was was Thanos wanting to find his son and a infinity gem that didn't shatter so his army invades earth. yeah...

actually, in the GotG series, they explain it better when Earth must be wiped out because it disrupted the space time continuum with the defeat of Ultron and stuff. And Earth is deemed as the center for most the problems in the galaxy according the the high council which includes J'son, Gladiator and some others. But they really don't talk about that much and Thanos invades just to kill his son in this book...

Anyway, give this book a try. Just warning you that this book doesn't live up to it's hype.

One part of an ongoing series that can barely stand on its own. It needs a giant two-page spread to introduce all the players in the huge cast. Probably not best for those not heavily invested in the Marvel universe already.

From the God-pretending Builders to the Black Order, Mr Hickman puts his best to weave a big plot together. I do, however, feel the graphic violence is excessive and makes it less palatable for a wider audience.

I have read everything surrounding this book but still find it confusing and not that well developed. Marvel just has too much happening in this story and fails in an attempt at a galactic saga. What should seem grand in scale feels small and trivial. Too many characters introduced and not enough explanation for even this Marvel fan boy.

Collects Infinity issues #1-6, New Avengers issues #7-12, Avengers issues 14-23, and Infinity: Against the Tide Infinite Comics issues #1-2

There is a cosmic threat so big, that all of the Avengers are forced to leave Earth to address it. While in space, a Galactic Council made up of humans, Kree, Skrull, the Brood, the Shi'ar, Annihilus, and other aliens team up to address this seemingly unstoppable enemy. Meanwhile, with the Earth’s mightiest heroes away, Thanos launches a full-scale attack on Earth. He is acting with a purpose, however his goal is a mystery for the first half of the book.

Infinity: Against the Tide Infinite Comics issues #1-2 are starring the Silver Surfer, and the story acts as a prelude the Infinity storyline. Strangely, Silver Surfer doesn’t appear anywhere else in this entire collection.

Spoilers:

-New Avengers #7: This issue is setting the stage for future stories. Doom asked Richards and Strange about the battle with the people from the other world, but they denied knowledge of this. Wakanda decided to go to war with Atlantis even though Namor offered a truce. Meanwhile, Reed has built a lot of Antimatter Bombs for future Incursions, although none have happened for 28 days.

-T’Challa’s sister is Queen of Wakanda, and she is the one that declared war.

- Avengers #14: Issue opens with mayhem around the world and every single Avenger is trying to help stop the madness. All these events are due to the changing evolution of Earth because of Ex Nihilo’s origin bombs.

Avengers #15: More fighting. And something is happening in space. S.W.O.R.D. detects something menacing. Captain Universe speaks in more riddles about the beginning of the end as someone big heads towards the Avengers.

-Captain Universe tells Manifold to warn the Avengers that they haven’t finished the machine in time and that they need the power to destroy a world in order to protect their world.

Avengers #16: I was happy to see Starbrand and Nightmask back in the story in this issue. Nightmask tells Starbrand that they could have left their cell in the Dyson Sphere (see New Avengers vol. 1) anytime, but Kevin is still learning to be a Starbrand. He is no longer a man. Men have many limits, and Kevin now has very few.

In other news, that thing that was heading towards the Avengers (a robot or something) completely took them out. A.I.M. is trying to get it back because they were previously in possession of it even though Ex Nihilo is to blame for its existence.

Avengers #17: A.I.M. caught the machine/entity and trapped it using the same strategy they trapped Hyperion with. They put it between two dead universes, inside the infinite whiteness.

This issue gets pretty good when Manifold brings back a message from Captain Universe. She has warned them of a great danger that is coming, and has instructed them that the Avengers need to get bigger. She specifically indicated that four new members needed to join the team, and Cap and the others heed her advice. By the end of this issue, not only are Starbrand and Nightmask made members of the team, but Ex Nihilo and Abyss are asked to become Avengers. They accept, and the narrator (who I believe to be Starbrand) foreshadows that these were the last great days of the Avengers before a season of death. The book then tells us that this is the end of the prelude, and because I know what big storyline happens next, I realize that all of the series thus far has been set up for "Infinity."

-Infinity #1: I thought that Thanos was the main villain, but it looks like the Builders (ancient species shapers and system builders, the oldest civilization in the universe, creators and engineers) may also play a villainous role.

-New Avengers #8: Black Bolt is working on something with Maximus, and it is confusing. I’m not sure what is happening, but Medusa doesn’t seem to like it because she slaps Black Bolt. Meanwhile, T’Challa tricks Namor into thinking that peace is an option, while elsewhere Atlantis is attacked. The issue ends with a worldwide invasion by creatures I don’t recognize. Not sure what is happening here. This volume is harder to follow than the last. I wonder if reading Avengers Volume 2 will help some of this to make sense, because I may be experiencing an Infinity tie-in story since that is the name of this volume. I was hoping that it could stand on its own two legs, but it appears that New Avengers is being sucked into the crossover.

-New Avengers #9: Thanos reviews a stolen memory from Black Bolt’s brain. It is of the Illuminati losing the Infinity Gems. Thanos noticed that all were destroyed except one, which disappeared. He wants that one, and when asked why, he replies that even one Infinity Gem can make you a god. Thanos’ army attacks all the places where the different members of the Illumniati are, and Namor pretends to surrender in order to “admit” where the final Gem is. He then tricks Proxima to send all the armies of Thanos to Wakanda (you know, because he is at war with them). When it seems like things can’t get any worse, the Illuminati’s early warning system in their hands go off. An Incursion is about to take place! Meanwhile, Black Bolt’s mean bother, Maximus, is talking about things like he knows more than he should. Does he know why the Incursions are happening?

-Thanos’ team of generals is called the Cull Obsidian (which means Midnight Slaughter). They also go by the Black Order. The members are Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, Black Dwarf, Supergiant, and the Ebony Maw.

-New Avengers #10: The Illuminati was scattered, but they come together in Black Bolt’s secret hiding place (a pocket dimension, maybe?). It turns out that Black Bolt has discovered Thanos’ true goal for attacking Earth. He is looking for his son, and he plans to kill him. Apparently, the son he wants dead is living amongst the Inhumans, and is between the ages of 16 and 22. All of the members of the Illuminati, except Black Bolt, spread out to find the kid, but Doctor Strange is under the influence of the Ebony Maw. By the end of the book, the Maw has released Strange, but not before finding Thanos’ offspring.

-In one of the Infinity issues, not sure which one, Black Bolt ignites a Terrigen bomb that spreads the Terrigen mist across the whole Earth, activating anyone with Inhuman genes.

-In this same issue, shortly after the bomb goes off, Black Bolt faces Thanos. Black Bolt uses his super strong voice powers, but it looks like Thanos killed him. This is all over Thanos finding his hidden, Inhuman son. When the mists reached Thanos’ son, Thane, his new power killed tons of people around him.

-I don’t know why it never occurred to me, but now I know why the Builders are attacking. Captain Universe confronts them and asks when death became their way, and they tell her that all the universes are dying and that Earth is the axis point. Their plan is to obliterate Earth to destroy the axis point for all of the multiverse-collapsing Incursions. Everything I’ve read so far in New Avengers has led up to this event.

-New Avengers #11: The issue opens in the wake of the fall of Attilan after the explosion of the Terrigen bomb. Meanwhile, the Illuminati members are preparing to act in light of the latest Incursion, when an Aleph robot from the other universe approaches them. The robot brings them to two beings from the other side, a Builder and an Engineer. These two are joined by beings that look like Ex Nihilo, however they are the color red instead of yellow. Also, instead of an omega sign on their torsos, they have two circles. One of the Ex Nihili notice that something is wrong with Dr. Strange’s mind, and literally shoves his arm into Strange’s head to pull out the outside presence. While attacking Wakanda, and taking over Necropolis, Thanos’ army finds the Illuminati’s antimatter weapons cache. They also find the prison with the alternate Terrax and the Black Swan.

-The alternate Builder explains that their kind used to be able to travel all through the multiverse until the destruction of their Superflow machine. They then explain that not just one Earth, but all the Earths of the multiverse must be destroyed because Earth is the axis point for the Incursions. The hope is that once all of the Earths are destroyed, the rest of the multiverse will be safe. Reed seems to agree with the idea, so they Illuminati are tasked with destroying their own Earth.

-Side Note: The cover of New Avengers Issue #11 is my favorite in the series so far!

-After Thor killed one of the Builders, the rest of the species fighting back against the Builders gained confidence. They fought back, under the banner of the Avengers, and won the war against the Builders. Before Cap and the team could enjoy the taste of victory, they got word that Earth had been taken over by Thanos.

-The Maw starts manipulating Thane, and eventually gets him to use his power to defeat Thanos. Thane wins the war for the Avengers. Apparently, his new Inhuman power is that his left hand brings death, and his right hand encases people in an amber cube. The Maw gave Thane a containment suit so that he would have control over his new power. Later, they leave Earth together.

-Maximus and Lockjaw start spending a lot of time with the Illuminati.

-The Kree, Skrull, and Shi'ar agree to fight alongside the Avengers to retake Earth.

-Cannonball and Smasher are beginning a relationship.

-Ronan kills Black Dwarf with his awesome hammer. He then re-enters the good graces of the Supreme Intelligence.

-I think Maximus kills Supergiant, but I’m not exactly sure what happens in the scene where he triggers the antimatter bomb. I think it somehow teleported away with Supergiant. I’m not positive if Lockjaw teleported too, or stayed behind with Maximus.

-Cap and Hyperion team up and kill Corvus. Proxima is mad, but gets trapped in the amber with Thanos.

-Before being trapped, Thanos easily takes out the Hulk, and even puts up a fight against Thor.

-Proxima had the power to change Hulk back to Bruce.

-Black Bolt reveals to Maximus that he always planned to detonate the Terrigen bomb to start a new age of Inhumans. This would have happened even if Thanos hadn’t attacked.

-Ex Nihilo and all his people start a new society on some world.

-There is some foreshadowing that the Skrull were born for conquest and expansion and will be a menace to the Avengers again (even though they helped them during this war).

-Annihilus and his drones from the Negative Zone gain access to the planet, Praxis-2. They take it over and rename it Annihilation World.

-“Under the discipleship of the Ebony Maw, Thane, son of Thanos, would grow to become something worse than his father could have ever dreamed. A fitting match for what we learned was a dying universe. A fitting match for the end of everything.”

-The Illuminati kept the imprisoned Thanos in case they need him during the fight against the collapsing multiverse.

-New Avengers #12: This issue appears in the collection for Infinity, but it comes after the Epilogue. The story starts with T’Challa getting shunned by his Wakandan family and friends because he has been secretly working with their great enemy, Namor. Meanwhile, something mysterious is going on with Black Bolt and Maximus. It sounds like Black Bolt intends to lie about some things. Elsewhere, Dr. Strange plans to use the Blood Bible to stop the Incursions, but it is very dangerous. Back at Necropolis, Beast, Reed, and Tony are meeting with Black Swan about how they should proceed with trying to save the multiverse. She starts naming off all these people and, although we have never heard of them before, it is implied that they are extremely powerful. Comparing Thanos’ might to theirs would be like comparing a dog to a demon.

I have come to loathe large crossover events because most of them are either a.) executed poorly; or b.) built around an lousy narrative. This is a sin both the big two publishers are guilty of. So I've lowered my expectations over the years as there are fewer stories like the "Infinity Gauntlet" than there are "War of the Gods".

I enjoy Jonathan Hickman's writing - it's typically dense and not aimed at children. He also has a fairly long rising action to most of his story arcs. "Infinity" is no exception - it is absolutely hostile to the casual reader who wants to pick this up for an impulse read. There are several collections of issues that need to be read just to understand who all the players are. And that doesn't include the 600 pages of material included in this trade and various other tie-in issues not included in this collection.

I enjoyed "Infinity". It was never dull, the art was consistently good, as was the dialogue.

Excellent Marvel "cosmic" story, which are typically not my favorite. Read Hickman's Avengers to get additional insight. All in all a fun read, and the art was solid throughout. Hardcover is nice too, no issues there.

For my money and experience, the best crossover event in Marvel history. Hickman's tale is stunning, complex, and emotional. The rich way he weaves his story arcs from various Avengers books together is masterful and triumphant. It's not only a story about Avengers and cosmic threats, it's about humanity beating back the darkness even when the odds are overwhelming and the hope of victory is nil.

This is drivel, pure drivel, a huge colossal mess. This type of story is completely archaic and obsolete.Every played out stereotype and cliche is included within. I'm sorry, but what I complained about in one of the single editions, still applies, even more so. Sorry Hickman, we're in a Game of Thrones world now, this foolishness just doenst cut it. I for one expect major characters to be killed off constantly and if they arent, then comics are just stuck in perpetual and formulaic loop that no intelligent person could possible care about. Imagine all of the heroes of the entire universe, and the greatest of them all come from an earth that has no technology, and no empire,think about it. America is no longer indispensable just here on earth, its indispensable in all of the universe, nay, in all of the multi-verse even. These ancient intergalactic empires need Captain America and Thor? Where are the gods from the other empires? Captain American and Carol Danvers(gazing into each others oh so blue eyes before overcoming "insurmoutable odds"? This stuff is STRICTLY written for the 40 year old virgin crowd. No one dies, no one punks out, no one makes a mistake, from Reed Richards on down the line. Oh, we have the occasional idiot like Tchalla, who seemingly always has to be corrected,educated,informed, and never gets the last word or contributes anything of value, but other than that?
They "Worfed" Tchalla. Remember (of course you don't) in TNG, Worf was a genius when around Klingons because he had the most contact with humans, but whenever around the humans he was something of a fool, because ultimately, he was just a Klingon? Thats pretty much what Hickman does to Tchalla, even though in the end he's crap even in his own obliterated kingdom of Wakanda. But really, worlds become "Avengers worlds" they held here, they rallied there. Its just absolutely sickening. Bendis himself couldn't have done it any worse. The only redeeming part of the story were Thanos and his minions. They were cool, the story would have been much better if they had won. The entire marvel universe needs to be wiped out once and for all, NEVER to return. The product has become total garbage.