Infinity Gauntlet Omnibus

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This has the main story, the Thanos Quest (which is very good and imperative to how Thanos gets the gauntlet) and a ton of Silver Surfer to start. I would have liked to see more Spider-Man (especially considering that the solo Spidey story in this collection was, quite frankly, a little weird and a little dark--not bad, but.

The Doctor Strange and Hulk issues lie somewhere in between but have their high points, such as the final Doctor Strange issue, which is the perfect conclusion for the volume. I love the blending of cosmic and arcane powers and the interactions of a broad range of characters from the Marvel Universe. Still as enjoyable and over the top as I remember and its always fun when the cosmic entities in the Marvel Universe show up. I also liked the snapshots I got of other Marvel characters; this allowed me to round-out my knowledge a bit while also pointing me in a direction for other possible comics to read.

I also liked the twist that subcausiously Thanos wants to be challenged or defeated so that was an interesting layer too. Doom, Galactus and the universe's cosmic powers aiding them, can Marvel's mightiest possibly prevail against Thanos the all-powerful? This is a really good series that is packed full of Marvel’s best heroes and villains fighting one of the most recognizable of antagonists, the mad Titan Thanos. Here he developed his ideas of God, death, and infinity, free of the restrictions of mainstream comics publishers' self-censorship arm, the Comics Code Authority. One would expect a crossover that is 1200+ pages would have a long lasting impact on most characters.

I mostly get my super hero knowledge from tv shows and movies, so there were a few heroes I didn't know about that I learned about here. This is truly one of the best comic book events of Marvel, spanning two limited series and six titles which add up to 45 individual issues!

With a career dating back to the early 1970s, he is best known for "cosmic" tales and space opera; for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock; and for creating or co-creating the Marvel characters Thanos and Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu. The art is retro and incredible (Especially in the limited series Thanos quest) and the dialogs are super tacky. Here with Starlin writing almost all of these issues Marvel did a great job of avoiding that problem. The mystical nature of the character meshed nicely with the space faring cosmic characters (something I did not actually expect.