brightestdaycare's The Infinity Gauntlet #1 review

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    The Secret Goes on for Infinity...

    Secret Wars is underway, and Battleworld is being explored in-depth with each of these different tie-in books. First on my list was Infinity Gauntlet, because I had (admittedly, too long into my comic reading career) just read the classic Marvel collected edition of Infinity Gauntlet by Jim Starlin and Ron Lim. With the story of the Infinity Gauntlet fresh in my mind (and after a few different web searches of stills of Josh Brolin’s Thanos from the MCU) I was ready to dive, headfirst into Battleworld.

    This book opens with some vague backstory of how people of Earth (and I am assuming New York City, of the Main Earth-616) live now after “the bugs came” and turned the city to rubble. We are then introduced to our main cast of characters for this issue, a small family of survivors- Anwen, her brother Fayne, her father Menzin, her grandfather and her dog, Zigzag.

    The story is set from the perspective of Anwen, a young girl (I am guessing no older than 10-12) out on the run with her family, trying to survive in an inhospitable world. The narration takes the form of excerpts from what look like a journal or diary, which could be taken to mean this is more of a memoir of her time spent as a fugitive or that it is something found long after she is overtaken by the horrors of Battleworld- for now, it is far too early to tell. We see the survivors scrounging for food, and having to settle with eating dog food (which was a great bit of humor in an otherwise bleak issue, but Gerry Duggan is very good at injecting humor where you would expect none) and then, during a shouting match with Menzin and his father-in-law, we get our first meeting with the “bugs” that Anwen had mentioned in the beginning.

    The pace of the book really rockets from there, with the family split up as they flee from the bugs and here is where Dustin Weaver shines. His artwork really blossoms when he is drawing these giant robotic-insect-alien creatures, and with the cinematic scope of the chase scenes, he really puts a lot of unique perspectives in the panels. I really liked how this part of the book flowed, it really felt very much like something storyboarded for a MCU scene, then adapted for a comic.

    The end of the book is one that is fairly bluntly foreshadowed on the cover of the book, but I wont get into too much detail- no need to spoil something just yet- and the final page reveal of a character who had been in the shadows throughout this issue was a welcome bit of an “ah-ha!” moment for this book (without saying, I am about 99.999% sure everyone knows who I mean).

    Even with my major event fatigue from that other publisher’s last event book, Secret Wars has found a very nice little niche in my pull list every week, and this book is definitely one I am interested in coming back and reading.

    Secret Wars seems to be firing on all cylinders, and it has nothing in it’s way to slow it’s momentum, so I suggest you jump on while you can! The first two issues were great, and this and Deadpool’s Secret Secret Wars was just a lot of fun! The secret is out- I really enjoy this series!

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