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Infinity War #1-6
Infinity War Omnibus
The epic sequel to the Infinity Gauntlet! Adam Warlock's dark half has resurfaced. The Magus is here. And the cosmos shall feel his wrath! As the Magus schemes for ultimate power, an army of evil doppelgangers overwhelms Earth's heroes, Dr. Strange and Galactus seek answers and Thanos enters the fray -alongside the Infinity Watch! Can the Avengers, X-Men and more turn the tide? To defeat the Magus, Eternity must be awakened...and the Infinity Gauntlet reassembled!
COLLECTING: INFINITY WAR 1-6; FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) 366-370; SPIDER-MAN (1990) 24; DEATHLOK (1991) 16; DAREDEVIL (1964) 310; WARLOCK AND THE INFINITY WATCH 7-10; DOCTOR STRANGE, SORCERER SUPREME 42-47; SILVER SURFER (1987) 67-69; WONDER MAN (1991) 13-15; ALPHA FLIGHT (1983) 110-112; SILVER SABLE & THE WILD PACK 4-5; GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (1990) 27-29; QUASAR 37-40; NEW WARRIORS (1990) 27; MARC SPECTOR: MOON KNIGHT 41-44; NOMAD (1992) 7; SLEEPWALKER 18; MATERIAL FROM CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) 408; ALPHA FLIGHT (1983) 109; MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS (1988) 108-112
COLLECTING: INFINITY WAR 1-6; FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) 366-370; SPIDER-MAN (1990) 24; DEATHLOK (1991) 16; DAREDEVIL (1964) 310; WARLOCK AND THE INFINITY WATCH 7-10; DOCTOR STRANGE, SORCERER SUPREME 42-47; SILVER SURFER (1987) 67-69; WONDER MAN (1991) 13-15; ALPHA FLIGHT (1983) 110-112; SILVER SABLE & THE WILD PACK 4-5; GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (1990) 27-29; QUASAR 37-40; NEW WARRIORS (1990) 27; MARC SPECTOR: MOON KNIGHT 41-44; NOMAD (1992) 7; SLEEPWALKER 18; MATERIAL FROM CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) 408; ALPHA FLIGHT (1983) 109; MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS (1988) 108-112
1352 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 1992
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About the author
Jim Starlin
1,338 books445 followersJames P. "Jim" Starlin is an American comic book writer and artist. 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. Death and suicide are recurring themes in Starlin's work: Personifications of Death appeared in his Captain Marvel series and in a fill-in story for Ghost Rider; Warlock commits suicide by killing his future self; and suicide is a theme in a story he plotted and drew for The Rampaging Hulk magazine.
In the mid-1970s, Starlin contributed a cache of stories to the independently published science-fiction anthology Star Reach. 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. Starlin also drew "The Secret of Skull River", inked by frequent collaborator Al Milgrom, for Savage Tales #5 (July 1974).
When Marvel Comics wished to use the name of Captain Marvel for a new, different character,[citation needed] Starlin was given the rare opportunity to produce a one-shot story in which to kill off a main character. The Death of Captain Marvel became the first graphic novel published by the company itself. (
In the late 1980s, Starlin began working more for DC Comics, writing a number of Batman stories, including the four-issue miniseries Batman: The Cult (Aug.-Nov. 1988), and the storyline "Batman: A Death in the Family", in Batman #426-429 (Dec. 1988 – Jan. 1989), in which Jason Todd, the second of Batman's Robin sidekicks, was killed. The death was decided by fans, as DC Comics set up a hotline for readers to vote on as to whether or not Jason Todd should survive a potentially fatal situation. For DC he created Hardcore Station.
In the mid-1970s, Starlin contributed a cache of stories to the independently published science-fiction anthology Star Reach. 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. Starlin also drew "The Secret of Skull River", inked by frequent collaborator Al Milgrom, for Savage Tales #5 (July 1974).
When Marvel Comics wished to use the name of Captain Marvel for a new, different character,[citation needed] Starlin was given the rare opportunity to produce a one-shot story in which to kill off a main character. The Death of Captain Marvel became the first graphic novel published by the company itself. (
In the late 1980s, Starlin began working more for DC Comics, writing a number of Batman stories, including the four-issue miniseries Batman: The Cult (Aug.-Nov. 1988), and the storyline "Batman: A Death in the Family", in Batman #426-429 (Dec. 1988 – Jan. 1989), in which Jason Todd, the second of Batman's Robin sidekicks, was killed. The death was decided by fans, as DC Comics set up a hotline for readers to vote on as to whether or not Jason Todd should survive a potentially fatal situation. For DC he created Hardcore Station.
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May 3, 2023
3.5 stars. So this book is not mapped in order. They give you the 6 issue Infinity War story and then toss in all the tie ins after in no particular order. I took 40 mins and mapped it in chronological order. Well, the main Infinity War story was pretty cool. A 4 star outing. The Magus is back with an all new secret power source and a plan to manipulate everyone in the direction he wants for his ultimate goal. Ron Lim continues to crush it on art here. The main tie ins, Silver Surfer, Doctor Strange, Fantastic Four and Warlock and the Infinity Watch really deal heavily in moving the plot forward. Then some of the other tie ins only connect to the story in small ways but they were still good enough that I want to read the rest of those comics on their own. Those were Silver Sable, Nomad, Guardians of the Galaxy from the 31st century and Quasar. The rest either weren’t good, like Wonder Man, or were so invested in their own ongoing story that I was mostly lost as I hadn’t read those issues leading up to this. But overall this was a pretty fun ride and I enjoyed seeing the unlikely team ups like Thanos working with Warlock’s infinity watch and Galactus working with Doctor Strange and Silver Surfer. On to the Infinity Crusade omnibus!!
August 30, 2019
This is quite a mishmash of a collection, organized in the way that Marvel has unfortunately settled on for crossovers of this type, with the core books first, all the crossovers second, and no master index or timeline. It's especially problematic here where a number of the crossovers (definitely the Infinity Watch and maybe the Dr. Strange, Silver Surfer, and Quasar comics) are pretty core to the crossover itself. But Marvel doesn't give you a good way to read the comics like that.
Not that this is such a masterwork that it really matters ...
The Infinity War (#1-6). Unfortunately, Starlin's Infinity War comes across as a pale reflection of Infinity Gauntlet. We have a new foe in the Magus, who could have been a great new cosmic villain. But like everyone in this comic, he's quite poorly characterized, and so there's just no depth to him. The first part of this story is a rather dull affair about evil versions of heroes fighting them, which is a transparent excuse to have crossovers. We then get a muddled middle, where it's clear that at least a Galactus plot is lost to crossovers, and where heroes teleport from place to place to fight stuff, without much characterization or plot going on. Then the ending is about the big villain becoming omnipotent thanks the Infinity Gauntlet, and if that sounds the most repetitive of all, it is [2+/5].
The Doppelgangers (FF, Spider-Man, Deathlock, Wonder Man, Silver Sable, GotG, NW, MK, AF, Nomad, SW ). These crossovers that focus on fighting evil doppelgangers are just as pointless as you'd expect, and the stories are often entirely lost in the ongoing plot of the comic. Some manage a slightly more interesting take on the concept, such as Silver Sable (where Sable meets a doppelganger Doom) and the Guardians of the Galaxy (who fight villains trying to take advantage of the chaos, alongside doppelgangers), but it's just not enough. [2/5].
The Events (FF, Alpha Flight, Quasar, MK). Meanwhile, a few other comics like Alpha Flight instead integrate with the major or minor events of Infinity War. These tend to be even more gratuitous than the doppelganger fights, and we keep seeing the same events again and again. They also tend to be even more lost in the ongoing stories of the individual comics (though those stories are often more interesting than the War itself). Once again, there are some prizes among these stories, such as the Quasar stories all about Marvel's abstract cosmic entities and about the Cosmic Nullifier, but for the most part, they just become repetitive. [2/5].
The Infinity Watch (#7-10). Not surprisingly, the Infinity Watch stories are the closest to the Infinity War itself, as they're all written by Starlin. And, they feature some great character background for things going on in the War and also some major plot elements (such as the restoration of Eternity in #9). In many ways, these are better than the War itself [4/5].
The Galactus Plot (DS, SS). Dr. Strange, Galactus, and the Silver Surfer go questing across dimensions. In many ways this is a snipe hunt, because nothing particularly comes of the questing, but it's still a nice parallel storyline to the main Infinity War comic. We also get a terrific issue about Strange's fights with death, past and present [3+/5].
Not that this is such a masterwork that it really matters ...
The Infinity War (#1-6). Unfortunately, Starlin's Infinity War comes across as a pale reflection of Infinity Gauntlet. We have a new foe in the Magus, who could have been a great new cosmic villain. But like everyone in this comic, he's quite poorly characterized, and so there's just no depth to him. The first part of this story is a rather dull affair about evil versions of heroes fighting them, which is a transparent excuse to have crossovers. We then get a muddled middle, where it's clear that at least a Galactus plot is lost to crossovers, and where heroes teleport from place to place to fight stuff, without much characterization or plot going on. Then the ending is about the big villain becoming omnipotent thanks the Infinity Gauntlet, and if that sounds the most repetitive of all, it is [2+/5].
The Doppelgangers (FF, Spider-Man, Deathlock, Wonder Man, Silver Sable, GotG, NW, MK, AF, Nomad, SW ). These crossovers that focus on fighting evil doppelgangers are just as pointless as you'd expect, and the stories are often entirely lost in the ongoing plot of the comic. Some manage a slightly more interesting take on the concept, such as Silver Sable (where Sable meets a doppelganger Doom) and the Guardians of the Galaxy (who fight villains trying to take advantage of the chaos, alongside doppelgangers), but it's just not enough. [2/5].
The Events (FF, Alpha Flight, Quasar, MK). Meanwhile, a few other comics like Alpha Flight instead integrate with the major or minor events of Infinity War. These tend to be even more gratuitous than the doppelganger fights, and we keep seeing the same events again and again. They also tend to be even more lost in the ongoing stories of the individual comics (though those stories are often more interesting than the War itself). Once again, there are some prizes among these stories, such as the Quasar stories all about Marvel's abstract cosmic entities and about the Cosmic Nullifier, but for the most part, they just become repetitive. [2/5].
The Infinity Watch (#7-10). Not surprisingly, the Infinity Watch stories are the closest to the Infinity War itself, as they're all written by Starlin. And, they feature some great character background for things going on in the War and also some major plot elements (such as the restoration of Eternity in #9). In many ways, these are better than the War itself [4/5].
The Galactus Plot (DS, SS). Dr. Strange, Galactus, and the Silver Surfer go questing across dimensions. In many ways this is a snipe hunt, because nothing particularly comes of the questing, but it's still a nice parallel storyline to the main Infinity War comic. We also get a terrific issue about Strange's fights with death, past and present [3+/5].
October 6, 2019
From 1300 plus pages the first 260 cover the event that gives the name to the book (6 issues) and all remaining 1000 pages are all about crossovers... which since you read the final outcome in the first 260 pages, kinda loses any motive to go through them all (from my perspective).
Event - 5 stars
boring crossovers - 2 stars
Final: 3 starts
Event - 5 stars
boring crossovers - 2 stars
Final: 3 starts
May 2, 2018
Ahora sí. La secuela al guantelete del infinito, y esta vez han hecho algo bueno de verdad. Los héroes de la tierra no tienen ni de cerca tanta importancia como los del espacio, que además leyendo los cómics de Warlock y la guardia del infinito se desarrollan bastante bien. La trama va ganando tensión conforme avanza, hay peleas épicas (y niveladas, donde no sabes quién va a ganar, no como en el guantelete del infinito que las batallas están por rellenar porque hay uno claramente superior al resto). Y lo mejor de todo, se usan las gemas del infinito a toda la potencia posible, que es lo que se espera que se haga.
PD.: Nunca dejara de ser un coñazo leer cómics y tener que buscar de antemano en qué orden van todos los tomos que se mezclan, pero si lo haces bien, te llevas una historia el triple de buena.
PD.: Nunca dejara de ser un coñazo leer cómics y tener que buscar de antemano en qué orden van todos los tomos que se mezclan, pero si lo haces bien, te llevas una historia el triple de buena.
September 25, 2024
Poderosissimo omnibus che raccoglie la saga di Infinity War.
La cosa migliore è, ovviamente, la miniserie portante di Starlin e Ron Lim.
In effetti la storia si sviluppa tutta lì.
La maggior parte degli albi interessati qui raccolti segue due impostazioni: o cerca di mostrare l'eroe titolare dell'albo in parallelo con gli eventi, coinvolto o meno a livello emotivo ma senza influenze sulla storia, come capita per Wonder Man e Quasar, ma anche altri, oppure cerca di spiegare alcuni passaggi della mini principale da un altro punto di vista, come le storie di Dr. Strange e dei Fantastici Quattro. Oppure sono puramente ancillari e si sarebbero svolte più o meno allo stesso modo anche senza il crossover, come quelle dei Guardiani Della Galassia o Deathlok.
Nel complesso la lettura è abbastanza divertente, ma certo i molti stili grafici spesso tendono a stridere l'uno con l'altro. Inoltre appare chiaro che in quel periodo Jim Starlin ha voluto dare la sua personale graduatoria di forza e potenza tra i vari personaggi. Che Adam Warlock possa battere in breve tempo Tempesta, Wonder Man, Quasar e qualcun altro non sta in piedi se non nella testa dell'autore. Cosa che invece sta in piedi con Thanos, perché lo abbiamo già visto tenere testa a Thor, Hulk, Ercole e La Cosa.
Allo stesso modo sul lato dei criminali vediamo Kang e Doom cercare di fregarsi l'un l'altro mentre sono alleati per essere poi sottomessi dal Magus.
Diciamo che 3 stelle bastano.
La cosa migliore è, ovviamente, la miniserie portante di Starlin e Ron Lim.
In effetti la storia si sviluppa tutta lì.
La maggior parte degli albi interessati qui raccolti segue due impostazioni: o cerca di mostrare l'eroe titolare dell'albo in parallelo con gli eventi, coinvolto o meno a livello emotivo ma senza influenze sulla storia, come capita per Wonder Man e Quasar, ma anche altri, oppure cerca di spiegare alcuni passaggi della mini principale da un altro punto di vista, come le storie di Dr. Strange e dei Fantastici Quattro. Oppure sono puramente ancillari e si sarebbero svolte più o meno allo stesso modo anche senza il crossover, come quelle dei Guardiani Della Galassia o Deathlok.
Nel complesso la lettura è abbastanza divertente, ma certo i molti stili grafici spesso tendono a stridere l'uno con l'altro. Inoltre appare chiaro che in quel periodo Jim Starlin ha voluto dare la sua personale graduatoria di forza e potenza tra i vari personaggi. Che Adam Warlock possa battere in breve tempo Tempesta, Wonder Man, Quasar e qualcun altro non sta in piedi se non nella testa dell'autore. Cosa che invece sta in piedi con Thanos, perché lo abbiamo già visto tenere testa a Thor, Hulk, Ercole e La Cosa.
Allo stesso modo sul lato dei criminali vediamo Kang e Doom cercare di fregarsi l'un l'altro mentre sono alleati per essere poi sottomessi dal Magus.
Diciamo che 3 stelle bastano.
May 14, 2025
A clear downgrade from Starlin's previous Marvel work, partly due to the event itself and partly to how its laid out in this omnibus. Part of what made Infinity Gauntlet work is that it wasn't originally even planned as an event, so the tie-ins are relatively controlled and there's a lot of time spent on setting stakes and building up to Thanos's return. Most of that previous omnibus is the core story and it hinges pretty deeply on Starlin's earlier (excellent) work too. By contrast, Infinity War (and its sequel Crusade) was practically forced on Starlin and you can tell. It's scoped much wider and largely retreads covered ground, with tie-ins that have less to do with what makes sense and more with boosting sales of obvious flubs (truly what the hell is Alpha Flight doing here). A major component of the whole story is doppelgangers of popular characters that are always replaced upon dying, an obvious ploy to be able to have the events technically apply to whoever they need it to. Adding to the problems is that a bunch of connective tissue between the two events - in Starlin's own Adam Warlock & the Infinity Watch - is missing, which is a shame because that seems to be where all the setup for this event actually lies, and the tie-in issues are easily the best stuff here.
As to the problem of layout, well - simply put this is ~200 pages of actual event and then 1000 of incredibly mid tie-ins. I suspect the editors were limited by size; the biggest omnibus I've seen in-person is about 1500 pages, and I assume there's a point where it just becomes unreadable. You can't move the tie-ins to a separate omnibus because nobody would buy it, and you can't split it up into part 1 and 2 because readers would accuse you (rightly) of forcing them to buy 2 massive tomes to get the main story. So there isn't really a good way out of this, but the version of this omnibus that would actually be a good reading experience would be including the connective tissue, and placing the tie-in issues of Adam Warlock in between the main event, because those often do add some pretty important context and character moments. Plus it's all Starlin so the consistency is there. It is a real shame to have things laid out this way, which results in you reading 6 issues of a kinda-iffy event, then 40 issues of junk, with a couple issues spread out every few hundred pages that would have actually served to make the event hit better.
I'm going to read Infinity Crusade but only because I couldn't find the omnibus online and instead got two individual volumes which focus on the main story only. There's no way I could handle another omnibus laid out like this one.
As to the problem of layout, well - simply put this is ~200 pages of actual event and then 1000 of incredibly mid tie-ins. I suspect the editors were limited by size; the biggest omnibus I've seen in-person is about 1500 pages, and I assume there's a point where it just becomes unreadable. You can't move the tie-ins to a separate omnibus because nobody would buy it, and you can't split it up into part 1 and 2 because readers would accuse you (rightly) of forcing them to buy 2 massive tomes to get the main story. So there isn't really a good way out of this, but the version of this omnibus that would actually be a good reading experience would be including the connective tissue, and placing the tie-in issues of Adam Warlock in between the main event, because those often do add some pretty important context and character moments. Plus it's all Starlin so the consistency is there. It is a real shame to have things laid out this way, which results in you reading 6 issues of a kinda-iffy event, then 40 issues of junk, with a couple issues spread out every few hundred pages that would have actually served to make the event hit better.
I'm going to read Infinity Crusade but only because I couldn't find the omnibus online and instead got two individual volumes which focus on the main story only. There's no way I could handle another omnibus laid out like this one.
October 17, 2019
I honestly picked up this book because of the art. I loved the art here, it was amazing. The story/plot in here was interesting yet confusing, I would like to have it organized better. This book is HUGE, like bigger than my purse, so big it's not easy to carry with me everywhere, which was terrible since I didn't want to stop reading it, but I has to take breaks because my arms were tired. But man, this was so much better than the stupid Infinity War movie, which had nothing to do with this at all.
January 5, 2020
Don't get me wrong, all of the comics in this omnibus are great stories (some of them like the Silver Sable and Doctor Strange issues are outright masterpieces), but Marvel could have spread them out. The book opens with all six issues of The Infinity War mini-series and then proceeds to go into the tie-ins. They could have spread the six main issues out and put the tie-ins in the middle, much like they did with The Infinity Gauntlet Omnibus. The collection is great, but whoever put together the thing was lazy.
April 17, 2019
Huh. Kind of better than Infinity Gauntlet. Didn’t see that coming. Very cosmic, well written characters, great art, just a very fun story.
April 30, 2019
Admittedly skimmed through some of the bad crossover tie-ins.
June 22, 2025
I, Thanos was my favorite story in this omni, but these stories were wholly supported by the grandeur of Thanos. which honestly i didn't fully enjoy until this omni
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