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Take It Or Leave It – August 14, 2013

Posted By on Friday August 16, 2013 at 2:57 pm
To Take It Or Leave It

Infinity
Welcome to Take It Or Leave It, where each week I pick out new comics and tell you if they’re worth the price and you should take them, or if you should just leave them on the shelf.

For this week’s Take It Or Leave It, I examine the first issue of this summer’s mega Marvel crossover, Infinity. It’s the biggest Infinity crossover since Gauntlet, War, Crusade, and Abyss. It’s so Infinite it doesn’t even have to be an adjective!

Infinity #1

Infinity #1

So? It’s all come down to this, has it? I’ve read all of Hickman’s run on both Avengers and New Avengers, but even so, I’m totally lost here. Hickman seems to think he’s writing a season of Lost, with flash forwards and sideswides and backways, and like 6 different storylines running concurrently. This is not the Great Glass Wonkavator, just give me a damn linear story. Apparently the SpaceKnights of Galador (but not Rom specifically, since Marvel no longer has the licencing rights from Parker Brothers) are set to feature heavily, and so is the Starbrand. Look, this isn’t 1986, a lot of these concepts died for a reason.

This series looks like it’s going to have so many moving parts (none of which are very interesting), that unless you’re already on board the Hickman train from Avengers and New Avengers, I wouldn’t bother trying to hop on now. Save yourself the headache and go read X-Men: Battle for the Atom if you want a big summer crossover event. Even with an extended length of 64 pages, and 24 issues of build up, I still feel as if nothing has actually happened yet, that the board is still being setup with no endgame in sight.

Verdict: Leave It

Score: 4/10
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