The Infinity Gauntlet was a comic book miniseries from the early 90s, and the first "event" book I ever got into. The plot involves this crazy dude Thanos who gets all this power from the titular glove so that Lady Death will go out with him on a date or something. To impress her he kills half of all life in the universe, usually I just say a joke or put my coat on a puddle but whatever. Anyway, spoilers, lots of superheroes die like Spider-man and Iron Man and Captain America Man, but it turns out to be a glorified What If? book when at the end this one broad undoes everything Thanos did the whole story long. In conclusion it is fun and the art is pretty but probably not worth $25 for the trade paperback.RATING: 58%
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I followed the infinity gauntlet when I was in Grade 6 or whenever but I didn't really like it, mostly because all the main characters in it reached or exceeded DC levels of dorkiness. I don't think there was a decent set of breasts in that entire run,
Did I say "breasts?" I meant "subversive gender roles."
I'm gonna have to review a gender sensitivity workshop one of these days.
I don't even know what I'm doing here...
Laurie and I already have our own blog that gets like over a thousand hits a day. No offense, but it's true. It's called L2 and it's burning up the 'net.
I felt like the main Infinity Gauntlet storyline (killing half the population of the universe, all the Adam Warlock crap, etc) was a bit hackneyed and of course it like all world changing events was undone at the end.
That said, the lead up to in Silver Surfer was fantastic, and dealt with some very interesting questions about morality in a way that comics rarely do. One of my favorite bits of comic story actually.
Oh, and the reboot of Drax the Destroyer was quite funny.
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