Infinity Wars is the conclusion to Gerry Duggan’s story that began in the pages of his much better series All-New Guardians of the Galaxy - and, like most events, it’s awful!
I appreciated that Thanos and his fucking gauntlet got taken off the table immediately and that, instead of dusting half of all living things in creation, the big bad instead merged one half into the other half so you got wacky combos of familiar characters - eg. Captain America and Doctor Strange become the Soldier Supreme.
But Duggan’s basically just taking the same furniture and rearranging it in a slightly different way. It’s the same uninspired guff about characters squabbling over who gets the Infinity Stones. And that’s really all there is to the story - there’s not nearly enough substance to merit the overlong page count of this bloated, shambolic wreck.
I don’t really understand Gamora’s motivations at all. I get that part of her soul was trapped in the Soul Gem but why not stop after getting it back? The identity of the new character Requiem is revealed almost immediately so there’s no mystery there. Drax’s origin is rehashed again and unnecessarily tacked on at the end to no effect. And that’s basically all there is to Infinity Wars - hardly anything!
I highly recommend Duggan’s All-New Guardians of the Galaxy which is really fun and entertaining but I’d skip the tedious, rambling conclusion that is Infinity Wars and pretend instead that it never happened - Marvel will anyway, like they do most events!
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