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Avengers (2012) (Collected Editions)

Avengers, Vol. 6: Infinite Avengers

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Collects Avengers (2012) #29-34.

The Time Gem has reappeared, ushering the Avengers into a peril-filled journey forward into days-to-come! Propelled 50 years into the future, the Avengers come face-to-face with the legacy of their actions! Then, 5,000 years into the future, the mysterious origin of the rogue planet is finally revealed! And finally, 50,000 years into the future, Earth's Mightiest Heroes find themselves on Holoworld, captured in conceptual space. But as they try to figure out how to defeat an idea, the first Avenger meets the last Avenger, the Avengers World crumbles, and you won't believe what comes next.

142 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 5, 2014

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Jonathan Hickman

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Jonathan Hickman is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for creating the Image Comics series The Nightly News, The Manhattan Projects and East of West, as well as working on Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, FF, and S.H.I.E.L.D. titles. In 2012, Hickman ended his run on the Fantastic Four titles to write The Avengers and The New Avengers, as part the "Marvel NOW!" relaunch. In 2013, Hickman wrote a six-part miniseries, Infinity, plus Avengers tie-ins for Marvel Comics. In 2015, he wrote the crossover event Secret Wars. - Wikipedia

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Profile Image for Anne.
4,761 reviews71.3k followers
June 13, 2016
I got all squeaky and flail-y sitting by the pool reading this one! Which caused some of my other mom-friends to give me the PleaseDon'tTellUsWhatTheHellEverNerdyPictureBookYou'reReadingAndGoingToTryToExplainToUsWeSeriouslyDon'tCare-Look.
*shrugs*
It's all good.

Ok, well, remember when Iron Man and the rest of the Illuminati had Dr Strange mind-wipe Captain America, because he didn't agree with their plans to build a machine capable of taking out an alternate earth?
Yeah. Neither did he!
Until now...

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*squeals*
Run, Tony! Ruuuuun!

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Oh, I gotta say, I just love it when Steve gets all puffed up and full of righteous indignation!

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Anyway, he (and a handful of the Avengers) go on a trip through time, thanks to the Time Gem, and learn something about what the future might hold for the human race. Or not.
Because even on a good day? Time-Travel = WTF?!

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And, normally, I'm the first one in line to complain about timey wimey stories, but this one was just sooooo much fun! Plus, the art was fantastic.
That ending though!

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4,811 reviews13.4k followers
April 30, 2019
The Illuminati have built a planet-destroying machine to stop planets from smooshing into each other - save one rather than lose two. Sounds better than nothing, right? Well, Cap’s not satisfied and so Doctor Strange erased his memory of finding out the Illuminati had reformed. Now, because plot, Cap’s suddenly remembered everything and he’s pissed. Cue pointless time travel into the future courtesy of the Time Gem!

I didn’t think Jonathan Hickman’s Avengers could get much worse but it’s still so, so bad! Volume 6: Infinite Avengers is still more wheel-spinning for no reason. We end the book exactly where it started - with Cap angry that his knowledge of the Illuminati was erased. Nothing that follows - all that irritating, convoluted time-jumping - adds anything.

I just don’t like time travel stories full stop. They’re so unimaginative and cliched. Whether it’s 50 years in the future, 5,000 or 50,000, there are Avengers in every era - why?? And why is Cap trying to stop the Illuminati anyway - they’ve actually got a practical solution to this massive problem. What’s Cap’s solution - a load of ideological hope? That’s not useful! The one time he was able to stop one of the incursions was with the Infinity Gauntlet which shattered all the gems afterwards anyway so it’s not like they could do that again!

And it’s not like the Illuminati are going out there gratuitously destroying planets - they’ve been given this impossible problem and they’re dealing with it as best they can. I don’t get Cap at all in this one. Also all the chapters are under the “Original Sin” event banner but they haven’t got a thing to do with it so yet more bullshit!

Time Runs Out has got to be better - I mean, the only way from rock bottom is up, right? Then again I thought this book would be better than the last and, phew, we’re still wading through the dregs. Man alive, Hickman’s Avengers is way overrated!
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1,389 reviews7,658 followers
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August 31, 2017
There’s a whole lot of comic book mumbo jumbo going on here including superhero fights, magical memory wipes, time travel, infinity stones, and the imminent destruction of Earth.

So just another Monday, right?

Wrong. Captain America and some other Avengers goa travelin’ courtesy of the Time Gem after he confronts Tony Stark about the Illuminati’s secret plan to destroy other versions of Earth to save their own. They get cycled through several different times far into the future until only Cap remains and is urged to take drastic measures to save all of reality rather than stick to his own moral code which will probably result in disaster. What does he decide? He’s Captain America, take a guess.

Pretty solid story overall, but while I like Hickman’s ideas he isn’t always clear about communicating what’s going one which can make things extra confusing in a story that will probably make you bleed from the ears while trying to figure it all out anyhow.
One aspect I especially liked is how like in Civil War the dilemma is presented in such a way that intellectually I agree with Iron Man, but emotionally I’m rooting for Cap all the way.
Profile Image for The Lion's Share.
530 reviews91 followers
May 27, 2019
This was cool and well done.

In this episode after volumes of deciphering what is going on, cap takes a trip through time with he help of the time gem and figures out what he needs to do.
Profile Image for Mike.
1,589 reviews148 followers
May 31, 2016
Steve remembers. And he's pissed. I was beginning to wonder if Hickman was able to portray an extreme emotion, let alone for a character of subtle expressions of emotion. So that's a gold star on your report card today, little Jonathan.

Then the team makes a trip to the future. And my heart fluttered. Hickman's ability to evoke wonder in future/past scenarios is always solid, and I usually feel the excitement of learning something new about all of us. Watching the reactions of some of these cool Avengers in that moment was fun. (Another adjective I'd started to wonder if Hickman could grasp, though he's shown flashes of it in the past.)

Reading through this story, one motif throughout time kept jumping out at me - see if you can catch it:

+50 years:



+500 years:



+5000 years:



I wonder if this period in comics will be known as "the overuse of glowing white orbs era"? It's probably just the books I'm reading, but it's unmistakeable - whenever the artist wants to make something look futuristic, add some glowing white circles, orbs or bubbles to the scene. (Thank your colourist!) Kinda like the pouches of the 90's, or the use of the dot pattern now to signify "past-era comics".

Anyway...Hickman does such a great job imagining beyond our current limited worldview. I don't want to spoil the really great moments so no screenshots, but *this* as much as anything else is what he does to keep me coming back.

This book might be the most coherent mess of high concepts and Big Thinking that we've seen out of Hickman in his Avengers run. Cap gets a real through line here and a reason to be part of the story. How can any of us argue with that?
Profile Image for Anthony.
815 reviews62 followers
September 23, 2018
Yes!
This is what I'm talking about!

This arc of Avengers is actually a tie-in to the event Original Sin. The premise behind Original Sin is that all the dark secrets of the Marvel Universe are no longer secrets. This means, Steve remembers everything that happened with The Illuminati (the first arc of Hickmans New Avengers).

That's all recapped in the first issue, drawn by Leinil Yu (who is on art for the entire arc and is at his best). Then we get right into it - Steve confronts Tony. Tensions are high. It's Civil War all over again. Until the time gem reappears and sends Steve and some other Avengers in a journey through time. And you may think I'm giving a lot a way there - but that all happens in the first issue.

Hickman gets to flex his science fiction side again as Captain America goes further and further into the future. It's pretty cool. A little 'Cap is a man always out of time' which is done a lot, but I still loved it.

And then the cliffhanger ending is made all the worse because we don't know when we'll be finding out what happens. TIME RUNS OUT.
Profile Image for ScottIsANerd (GrilledCheeseSamurai).
659 reviews111 followers
February 19, 2015

Doo-Dee-Da! This one was a gooder!

It was all soo...timey wimey.

Cap and some Avengers are flung forward in time because of the infinity gems and worlds colliding and...well...if you haven't been keeping up...you probably shouldn't be starting here. Go back to the first volume and fill up the tank.

Hell...I AM caught up and this story hurts my brain.

I would have probably given this five full stars...but I'm taking one away because a good chunk of this volume is just Cap dealing with shit. This isn't a solo book...it's a team book. So yeah, I'm yoinking a star for that.

Still, there was some seriously cool stuff in this one. The arc is classic Hickman doing his thang and he's doing it well. It's pretty clear this far into the game how its all going to spiral into this summer's Secret War event.

It's getting me all antsy and shit. I'm excited!
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1,128 reviews2,148 followers
February 17, 2018


This would have been fitting for almost all the earlier volumes of this Hickman Avengers and New Avengers run.

Here I actually sort of know what is going on, and even though it's using the sort of weak plot device of time traveling to get the story arc to where it needs to go, I still found myself really enjoying it. Which is so much better than the feelings I was having a couple of volumes ago, where I was stubbornly continuing just to get through the run.

Captain America was part of the Illuminati and after a falling out of the morality of certain tactics (is it ok to destroy another world to save ours, Cap says NO! Iron Man says, Dr. Strange wipe his memory of this ever happening...) he was let go from the Nerd Squad with no memory of what had happened.

But then he had dreams! And he remembers. So he confronts Tony Stark in that self-righteous way that Captain America has.

A fight happens and the Time Infinity crystal re-appears and sends everyone Quantum Leaping through time (actually that reference sucks because everyone knows that Sam could only Quantum Leap within his own lifetime, and the Avengers are being thrown with each leap further and further into the future.)

Basically, this whole story hinges on Captain America not believing that it's alright to sacrifice some people so that another group of people can survive. It's nice sounding and full of the high morals of Captain America, but it's also bullshit.

Earlier in this run Captain America's whole battleplan to defeat the Builders in "Infinity" hinged on sacrificing large groups of beings as a subterfuge in order pull off a strategic victory. That's war. It's survival of the whole universe. Sometimes some eggs get broken. Sometimes people are means to a greater good.

The problem is this is pretty much the exact same situation, the universe is at stake, and maybe you need to consider some people (worlds) will get destroyed so that your world can survive, you know like he did in space when he was being Star Commander America. Or maybe those memories got wiped by Dr. Strange, also.

I know that Captain America is being created as the 'good guy' in this, versus the monster Tony Stark. But, in all of the exchanges, both pre and post mind wipe, Captain America has nothing constructive to offer for the fact that the world is repeatedly having to stop other worlds from crashing into it. He just gets preachy, and at the beginning of this book decides to try to kick Tony Stark's ass instead of coming to some kind of solution.

Captain America is sort of a jock bully. It can't be that tough to beat up some dude with a weak heart and no armor when you're a Super Solider.

As a side note, later on, while unconscious on a future Earth Captain America has a 'dream' which involves this.



I'm not sure if the nerds really told him this, or if Captain America just has some inferiority issues about his intelligence.

But, again, for all my complaints, if it wasn't for the problems I had in creating basically Civil War 2 between Rogers and Stark there wouldn't be much of a story, and I wouldn't have gotten to see an aging and surly Hawkeye from the future, that sort of stole the show for this volume.
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3,078 reviews102 followers
June 10, 2021
This one was too good! Steve finds out about the thing they erased his mind of in the wake of Original Sin and thus begins his conquest to stop Tony and he confronts him and in what happens to be a great trip through time, they visit so many futures and each time an Avengers is sent back and only Steve goes to the future. 48 years ahead they meet Old Hawkeye and then 422 years and then 5045 years where they meet adult Franklin and this ties perfectly into Hickmans Fantastic four run which was awesome to see and then finally with the City of tomorrow and then the Kang dynasty and its so good! This just shows the hard choices some Men won't make and sacrifice everything to preserve their ideals and honour and these men are rare and again it just shows the concept of Good vs Evil and what is the gray area in between?

Loved the future versions of the world and how Avengers world expands and the choices Steve makes and the art by Yu was pretty good and I loved the whole thing Hickman is building towards and now finally Time runs out!
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3,502 reviews207 followers
January 20, 2015
This is probably the most Hickmanesque Avengers arc yet. Hickmanesque, meaning, it has all the elements of a mind-boggling Hickman story, and yes, I am aware this is written by Jonathan Hickman. It has time travel, multiple universes and and Franklin Richards, who has become Hickman's signature character ever since he started blowing comic readers' minds with his epic Fantastic Four work.

A couple of points why this rated a five-star rating from me:

This arc featured some stellar art from Leinil Yu and Gerry Alanguilan, with Yu having to have unique character designs every issue since several of the current Avengers time traveled and met their counterparts in different eras of the future in each issue.

Having just read Busiek and Pacheco's Avengers Forever, I got the feeling that his was Hickman doing his own version of Avengers Forever and he made the case for it in the last chapter of this collection.

Hickman is just killing it on Avengers. I can't wait to see his endgame this year. I hope to see some major pay offs from his seeded hints throughout his run as he closes this chapter of the Avengers mythos.
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912 reviews820 followers
April 13, 2016
Anybody recall that time the Illuminati and Captain America had a difference of opinion as to how they were going to handle the planet/universe incursions and Dr. Strange did a hypno-thingy and put Cap to sleep and made him forget everything?

Guess what?



Oopsie!

Hey Tony Stark! Can I have a word with you?



The Illuminati were none too happy with Captain America’s attempt to solve the multiverse dilemma.



The Infinity Gems are gone, except one – the Time Gem. It keeps re-appearing and sends the Avengers forward into the future – 50, 5000, 50,000 years as each trip reveals a little more about Hickman’s endgame.



This is a comic book, so it is possible, Natasha.

Each Avenger disappears, until only Cap’s left to stare into the abyss and ponder stuff.



Bottom line: If only all the volumes in Hickman’s multiverse hijinks saga were this good. It’s a fairly linear story that ties in nicely to Hickman’s grand arc. It’s well-paced, interesting, the pseudo-science stuff doesn’t hurt your brain (too much) and Hickman even cracks a joke or two.



The punch line at the end of this issue is sublime.
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1,144 reviews16 followers
June 6, 2016
3.5 i suppose. This focuses on Cap. America's side of the incursions story rather than the Illuminati. The story is pretty straight forward, that is, if you like time travel and are up to speed on all the new avengers, and avengers its a cake walk.... Anyways I liked the story. I always like getting glimpse's of what the authors think the future will be. The story revolves around the time gem and the fact the Steve messed everything up using and destroying the infinity gauntlet... or did he??? So the time gem is spazzing out and decides to take Cap and the Avengers on a time skip to 50, 500, 5000, and like 5 zillion years ahead. Tony is the bad guy according to Steve because he reformed the Illuminati and will save the earth at any cost and after his time travel vacation, Tony is still the bad guy...

The art is pretty good, Leinil Yu likes to do some fine details with the pencil but they in some panels he just says screw I dont want to give these fools faces in the background.... I hate that crap. I like his realist style but he gets lazy IMO.

Like i said I am a sucker for this time travel stuff most of the time... Hickman tends to bring a realist and serious approach and I like that too. I suppose i would recommend.
Profile Image for Matt.
304 reviews3 followers
September 19, 2021
Avengers volume 6: Infinite Avengers. A continuation of my reread of the series.

This may be the strongest volume in the series yet! The plot revolves around Captain America remembering that the New Avengers/Illuminati wiped his mind. This sets him on a collision course with Iron Man and the rest of the Illuminati.

Before that can happen though we get a trip forward through time, all linked back to the Time Gem. We get to see the Earth’s and the Avengers future from various future points, all leading to the end of time!

This volume tends to focus a lot on Cap, especially in the latter half. The man out of time is really put to the test.

Bonus points for the artwork - probably the best the art has been the entire series.

Hickman’s Avengers series certainly took a while to click and get going. I look forward to rereading the accompanying New Avengers volume before heading into the unknown of Time Runs Out.
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1,563 reviews37 followers
May 3, 2015
My God, is there a single Marvel book that isn't bending the laws of time?? Just kidding, but shit this dragging out of the Incursions nonsense is getting old as fuck. Points to Hickman for decent writing but this plot is going nowhere and fast. Let's wrap this shit up already.
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1,504 reviews75 followers
May 29, 2019
I'm reading this out of order for the simple fact this was the only volume on sale at the time. Therefore I won't be reviewing the story because I have no idea what is going on and no one to blame but myself.

Instead, I will judge this book solely on the artwork. It's very dark, and I don't just mean that thematically. The artist obviously saw a red door and wanted to paint it black. When I could see what was going on, it was those harsh, hard lines I'm just not a fan of.
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2,062 reviews32 followers
July 3, 2020
For the most part, I trust Hickman when he's writing in the Marvel Universe. I was leary of his Fantastic Fouf and FF run when it started, but it really got more interesting as it went on, and by the end I was completely hooked.

With his Avengers run, I'm bored. He's writing The End Of The Marvel Universe, but he keeps having to stop and explain what's going on, and shift the focus to different characters because, well, there's Too Much Going On to care about. The Illuminati erases Cap's memories so they can stop universes colliding while The Builders of the Universe show up to destroy the Earth to keep the universes colliding while Thanos shows up to find his son and gives no shits about the universes colliding while Captain America fights with Iron Man and then goes time travelling because the universes colliding might possibly be a bad thing and The Illuminati are trying to stop the universes colliding which is what Captain America wants but not how he wants to get it done and it's exhausting.

While, technically, the story is moving really quickly, it feels like it's dragging because at the end of every volume of this Avengers series and the New Avengers series and the Avengers World series, we're left pretty much exactly wher we were at the beginning of each volume. Only the very first volume of Hickman's run: New Avengers, Volume 1: Everything Dies actually progressed the story. Since then it's felt time loopy even when it hasn't been time loopy.

Some of the other negative reviews I've read focused on how difficult the story is to follow. And if you're not reading all of the books in the precise order, it definitely is. If you are reading them in the right order, it's easy to follow, but it can read boring if you're not totally devoted to explaining the science in science fiction. If you DO read comic books to nitpick time travel rules and how multiple universe theory works, you might love this book. I don't know. I hate it when a story is so obsessed with getting the science correct that they forget to have fun with the fiction. As such, this volume wasn't for me. But I still have my fingers crossed that this will end up refocusing on the actual destruction of the universes story before it all gets zapped away by Secret Wars.
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901 reviews20 followers
April 27, 2021
La verdad es que no sé ahora cómo iran las cosas, ya que hace mucho que no compro grapa, pero en esta última temporada en la que lo hacía, la cantidad de sagas y cruces era prácticamente masiva, y fruto de ello es que tuviéramos en poquísimo tiempo Infinito, Pecado Original, Axis y Secret Wars. Unas más contenidas que otras, eso es cierto, pero al final en colecciones como Vengadores la verdad es que parecía que ibas leyendo arco/saga/arco/saga... y esto desgasta. Al menos en el caso de Pecado Original, Hickman creó su propio argumento que mantuvo la colección "inspirada" en el evento, pero ligada a sus propios planes. Recordemos: el asesinato del Vigilante y la revelación de muchísimos secretos contenidos en sus ojos, y uno de ellos va a ser que el Capi va a recordar cómo Extraño le borró de la memoria la existencia de los Illuminati después del inicio de las Incursiones y de que el Capi destruyera cinco de las seis Gemas del Infinito y perdiera la última, la Gema del Tiempo.

Con esto en mente, Rogers va a reunir a un equipo de Vengadores para detener a Stark, pero en ese momento, la Gema del Tiempo vuelve y los Vengadores se van a ver a arrojados a la corriente temporal, teniendo que hacer frente a sus conflictos propios pero también al propio paso del tiempo: Ultron, nuevas alineaciones de Vengadores, la expansión de la humanidad por las estrellas... Son solo algunos de los argumentos que vamos a encontrar en las páginas de este arco, que va de 50 a 500, 5000 y hasta 500000 años hacia el futuro. Y la verdad es que el arco es entretenido, y Hickman tiene buena mano con la Ci-Fi... pero es que el dibujo de Yu me gusta taaaaaaan poco, que le bajo un poco las estrellas.
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805 reviews2 followers
February 3, 2023
New Avengers(2013) kitabında Illuminati ile Captain America hayatlar ve değerli konusunda fikir ayrılığına düşüyor, Captain America takımdan hafızası silinerek şutlanıyordu. Şimdiyse büyü zayıfladı ve Steve hatırladı. Avengers'ın geri kalanını da yanına alan Steve, Tony ile yüzleşiyor. Adeta Civil War'ın sayfalarından çıkmışcasına iyice kötü oluyorlar. Kontrolsüz bir biçimde ortaya çıkan zaman taşı odadaki herkesi zamanda ileriye atıyor.

50 yıl,500 yıl, 5000 yıl ve ötesine giden ekip yavaş yavaş başladıkları noktaya geri dönüyor fakat Steve en sonuna kadar gidiyor. Orada Marvel'da zamanda yolculuk denince akla ilk gelen isim Kang ile karşılaşıyor. Üç farklı zamandan Kang ile tartışan Steve yine inandığı doğrulardan ve değerlerinden vazgeçmiyor. Bir yolunu bulup evine dönüyor ve Avengers Illuminati'ye savaş ilan ediyor.

Her bir zaman atlamasının neler getireceğini görmek keyifliydi. Kiminde Ultron Asgard'ın bile tahtına oturmuş kiminde Avengers gezegeni kurulmuş kiminde de insan denen bir şey kalmamıştı. Captain America'nın iyilik ve doğruluk timsali olmasını seviyorum. Hikayelerde savunduğu değerleri ben de savunuyor oluyorum içten içte. Evrenlerin çöküşüne kadar kalan zaman azalırken kahramanlar arası bir çatışma neye yol açacak merak ediyorum.
Profile Image for Joe Young.
422 reviews9 followers
January 13, 2015
Jonathan Hickman - writer
Leinil Francis Yu - illustrator

When Captain America refused to compromise his moral code to combat the incursions of other Universes into our own, the Illuminati erased his memories and carried on with their plan in secret. But when a massive psychic attack jars his mind, Captain America remembers everything and there is Hell to pay.

Gathering his most trusted allies and heavy hitters, Cap goes to confront Tony Stark. Sneering in the face of the accusations, Stark essentially dares Cap to fight by parading numerous suits of his automated Iron Man armor in a display of macho posturing. Not giving a single fuck, Captain America proceeds to kick Tony Stark's ass all over the place. However, in the midst of the fight the Time Gem reappears in Captain Americas' hand and in a blinding flash of light sends the fighting heroes hurtling forward in time.

The heroes are sent 50, then 500, then 5,000, then 500,000 years into the future. In each time period they are met by Avengers, though not necessarily allies. As they travel further and further into the future, some heroes are left behind, until finally there is only Captain America at the end of time with the last Avenger.

Jonathan Hickman is a genius, and if you are a fan of Marvel Comics you owe it to yourself read his Avengers books. The only criticism I have is that his writing is so layered and complex that it doesn't provide many accessible "jumping-on" points for new readers. Yu's artwork is good, although a bit loose and overly dark for my tastes. Other than those small criticisms, this run on Avengers is a masterpiece.

5/5 Highly recommended.
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Profile Image for Josh.
640 reviews
August 8, 2023
Beautiful. Complex. Ominous. Hickman’s Avengers hurtle through time, revealing unseen consequences. Hickman not only shows the reality of actions, but also the darker side of superheroes. Infinite Avengers is easily one of the best books in the series.
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Author 1 book54 followers
July 25, 2015
Es increíble la cantidad de páginas que se pueden usar, para al final no contar nada.
Profile Image for Danny Roe.
14 reviews
June 4, 2019
Following Cap through time as he remembers what happened before his memory was wiped. Really enjoyed this volume and will be looking for the next one to see what Cap has in store for the illuminati!
Profile Image for Krzysztof Grabowski.
1,877 reviews7 followers
May 12, 2020
Zaciesz, czytając ten tom czułem zwyczajny zaciesz, a mało kiedy mam aż tak wielką frajdę z lektury czegokolwiek. I choć to uczucie gdzieś ulatuje w trakcie czytania i oglądania, to nie zmienia faktu, że szósty i ostatni tom w tej serii (przed Time runs out) to kawał solidnej roboty.

Początek nieco mnie zażył, bowiem tak naprawdę nie wiem, czy to pokłosie Grzechu Pierworodnego, czy faktu, iż Rogers dostał o jeden raz za mocno w łepetynę i czary, jakimi obrzucił go Dr. Strange (przyp. w pierwszym tomie New Avengers też spod pióra Hickmana. Wykluczyli go z rady bo nie "fitował" przekonaniami) zwyczajnie przestały działać. Fakt faktem, Steve budzi się po koszmarnym śnie i jak sam stwierdził: "Pamiętam". Swoją drogą Iluminati powinni złożyć do Doktorka jakąś reklamację. Stephen, ręka już nie ta?

I się zaczyna. Trzeba zebrać drużynę i polecieć spuścić wpi... łomot. A na kogoś spadnie pierwsza fala złości? Na "przyjaciela" Starka, co tylko dowodzi od czasów Civil War, że tej przyjaźni tak naprawdę nie ma. Są tylko wygodne rozwiązania dla "sprytniejszej" strony. Szkoda, że zachodzi to kilkoro na jednego, ale z pomocą swoich dronów Starkowi rachuba się wyrównała. Prawie. To był zdecydowanie mój ulubiony kawałek tego tomu.

Zaraz potem wydarzenia przyjmują nieoczekiwany obrót przez pojawienie się skruszonego kamienia nieskończoności, a konkretnie tego odpowiadającego za czas. Zgaduję, że oddziały wuje on na Kapitana Amerykę, bo ten miał z nim kontakt jako ostatni. Nie zmienia to faktu, że zebranych herosów zacznie przerzucać w przyszłość po różnych okresach czasu.

Mamy kolejno prawie pięćdziesiąt lat do przodu, prawie pięćset lat do przodu, gdzie całość przyjęła dość nieprzyjemny obrót dla herosów, choć najgorsze miało dopiero nadejść, bowiem gdy lądują w roku bodajże pięciotysięcznym to widzą świat pod rządami jednego z wrogów. Najfajniejsze jednak nadal przed nami, bo grupka herosów się tutaj uszczupla przez oddziaływanie czasu i muszą się adaptować do panujących warunków. Miodzio. Widok przedostatniej podróży był świetny. Zwłaszcza pewnej planety.

Finał sprowadza nam spotkanie Rogersa z kilkoma dość ciekawymi i ważnymi dla świata Marvela postaciami. Warto wytrwać do tej pory. Jasnym jest, że w najbliższej przyszłości czeka nas też konflikt Avengers kontra Iluminati, więc czekam na to z niesłabnącą niecierpliwością. Ten tom zaostrzył apetyt. Tym bardziej, że Hickman puszcza do nas tutaj gdzieniegdzie oczko i to celnie (I-am-groot... świetne).

Rysunki i kolory. Team Leinil Francis Yu-Sunny Gho. Nieczęsto wspominam rysowników czy "facetów od kolorów", ale ci goście wykonali kawał świetnej roboty. Wygląd postaci, cienie, kontury, kolory zwłaszcza w przyszłości. Tworzy to klimat, jaki kupiłem od pierwszej strony. I może tytuł ten nie zasłużył na pełną "piątkę", ale... Tak jak mówię, dawno nie miałem takiej radochy w kontakcie z komiksem, mimo że fabularnie całość jest raczej prościutka. Polecam gorąco.
1,607 reviews13 followers
September 25, 2019
Reprints Avengers (5) #29-34 (July 2014-October 2014). Captain America has learned the Illuminati have reformed and that their attempts to erase his memories have failed. Assembling a team of Avengers to confront Iron Man, Captain America and the Avengers find themselves flung forward in time as a result of the Time Gem. Now, Captain America is seeing the results the Avengers are having on the world and the future…and it isn’t necessarily a world he approves of.

Written by Jonathan Hickman, Avengers Volume 6: Infinite Avengers is a Marvel Comics team book and a crossover with the Marvel event series Original Sin. Following Avengers Volume 5: Adapt or Die, the collection features art by Leinil Francis Yu. The issues in the volume were also collected in Avengers by Jonathan Hickman—Volume 3, Avengers by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus—Volume 2, and Original Sin Companion.

Hickman took the Avengers in a very different direction. He saw the Avengers as a worldwide network that could protect the planet from threats small and large if it was organized. This storyline starts to show the culmination of this plan and what would happen if “Avengers World” really occurred. I liked the start of Hickman’s run, but deep into the run, I started to question if it really even felt like I was reading the Avengers anymore.

The comic is getting darker and darker. While some of the earlier issues were so dense that they were kind of hard to follow, it is easier to follow the storyline of these volumes. It feels like Hickman is really building to something and has a plan for where his story is going. Unlike Bendis, Hickman’s take feels bigger and more monumental…but that doesn’t mean it necessarily is fun.

The story reads more like The Authority or in this collection even a bit like Prophet. The hopelessness of the situation (despite Captain America’s belief he can turn it) is deafening. It doesn’t seem like anything said can change the story and make it fun. The Avengers I loved and followed as a kid are screwing up the world and have the potential to screw up more worlds. The realism takes away from some of the escapism of the comic.

The collection ends on a down note. The Illuminati are being hunted, and Captain America and Iron Man are once again facing off (with Captain America taking the “sanctioned” side of the fight). I really disliked the events of Civil War and the resulting world after it. It almost feels like Hickman is setting up a Civil War do-over and many of the same problems exist. A smart but so-so storyline plus the art of Yu (of which I’m not a fan) makes this run of Avengers a struggle to get through at points. Avengers 6: Infinite Avengers was followed by Avengers: Time Runs Out—Volume 1.
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229 reviews6 followers
November 29, 2019
Call me old-fashioned, but I am a sucker for a good old Captain America speech. This volume of Hickman’s Avengers just reasserted my allegiance to the good Captain.

Case in point:

“I see someone who needs help - and I HELP. You think it’s a weakness. You think it’s simple. But you’re wrong. It’s what makes us human. Which is exactly what we’re supposed to be fighting for. I know who I am. I rescue the helpless. I raise up the hopeless. I don’t measure people’s lives....I SAVE THEM.”

I mean, c’mon. How could anyone like Iron Man more than Cap? When faced with the knowledge (or remembrance, since he got past the Dr. Strange mind-wipe about the blowing up other worlds stuff) that his friend has been going behind his back - with the opportunity to help save his own planet at the expense of killing others - Cap holds down on his principles. You can’t help but admire that. To get a good hearty comic-book rush of what makes Captain America a symbol.

Side note: Jonathan Hickman, if you’re reading this - pitch a solo Cap series? Please? Yeah???

Anyway - more great stuff from Hickman’s Avengers run. Some time travel - because of course! - and plenty of great art by Leinil Francis Yu, the superstar. And any comic featuring Kang the Conqueror is an A in my book.
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30 reviews
September 1, 2023
Les issues de ce volume sont considérées comme des tie-ins à l'évènement crossover Original Sin, mais ne sont pas vraiment reliés à l'histoire mise en scène par Jason Aaron et Mike Deodato Jr. et se lisent facilement indépendamment (c'est ce que j'ai fait), Hickman poursuivant sa propre histoire dans son coin.

Ça y'est, les manigances de Stark dans New Avengers reviennent en mémoire à Steve Rogers, et la tension est à son comble. Le conflit moral que pose la menace des incursions rend la confrontation entre Stark et Rogers très impactante et bien écrite. Ensuite, les Avengers sont transportés de plus en plus loin dans le futur par la pierre du temps, permettant à Hickman de nous abreuver de discussions philosophiques dont raffole Hickman, très intéressantes même si parfois difficiles à suivre. Aucune action, aucune discussion n'est laissée au hasard et certains évènements précédents prennent sens. On retrouve aussi quelques têtes connues de l'univers Marvel, vous le devinez, en rapport avec le voyage temporel.

Les dessins de Leinil Francis Yu sont très bien réalisés et collent parfaitement au récit.

Ce volume pose la dernière pierre avant Time Runs Out, où les séries Avengers et New Avengers s'entremêlent.
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