Infinity Review

Finished reading Infinity, this is Marvel's big event spinning out of writer Jonathan Hickman's Avengers and New Avengers series. The book opens up to a couple of prequel stories the first one has the illuminati dealing with their actions of destroying an alternative Earth above Dr Doom's Castle during an incursion between the worlds. This causes Dr Strange and Mr Fantastic to convince Doom otherwise while tensions between Atlantis and Wakanda grow as Black Panther's sister Shuri declares war on Namor and the Atlantans. The other prequel story has the Avengers dealing with the Origin Bomb site in Perth as it becomes active causing problems to all of Earths electronics as planes begin to fall out of the sky and blackouts are experienced across the planet. As the Avengers deal with the bomb site Captain Universe takes Manifold to a distant planet to show him an oncoming force threatening to end the universe as they know it. Back on Earth Manifold reports back to the Avengers as they begin to expand their ranks in order to tackle this oncoming threat. The main story begins with one of Thanos' henchmen traveling to Earth undetected to find the whereabouts of his son by infiltrating the Inhuman city Attilan to read the mind of the Inhuman king Black Bolt. Meanwhile the Avengers prepare to deal with the galactic threat of the Builders as they head into space to meet with the Galaxy's Galactic Council to hopefully defeat the Builders and stop them from destroying any more planets after receiving distress signals from destroyed worlds. After being discovered by the Inhumans Thanos' henchman returns to Titan beaten with the information of Thanos' son and along with the a spy's intel of Earth being without its Avengers Thanos plans his invasion. With Avengers on the other side of the galaxy dealing with the omnipotent threat of the Builders along with different galactic races they meet up, while back on Earth Ironman is the only Avenger as the planet is invaded by Thanos and his army so he can kill his last offspring the Inhuman Thane causing Ironman to reassemble the Illuminati to combat Thanos' forces. Overall this was an amazing book as it flowed very organically with both stories of the Avengers in space fighting the Builders and on Earth as the Illuminati deal with Thanos' invasion. The space scenes are consistently breathtaking as it feels like something out of a epic science fiction film. While the Inhuman parts of the Earth based story is very captivating especially with characters like Black Bolt and his brother Maximus who both steal the spotlight from other characters in the scenes their in. 9.5/10.