Marvel Comics builds a rather quietly an epic story featuring the Infinity Stones, with the latest chapters taking place on Infinity Watch. A trade paperback is on sale this week, featuring the fifth epic poem that bends time and space while holding down the comic format. If we explain that the Infinity Stones acquire human hosts, this story has been made for years. The concept of stones that acquire human personas is interesting, and based on this story, a rather compelling new super team has an epic mission to save the universe.
Infinity Watch #1 is an interesting comic in that most characters are alien to the average audience, but its influence and importance in the Marvel universe is enormous. Overall, this issue does a good job of establishing characters for new readers while moving forward with the story arc that won us here.
The team consists of seven members. One of the Infinity Stone and Phil Coulson, respectively, has recently become a Death Stone Incarnate. Randy does a good job of giving each character personality through dialogue and establishing that this is not just an Avengers team. Most of these characters are extremely human and even immoral, giving the book a fresh feel compared to other team books.
Ruiri Coleman’s art is good, but Greg’s land has a simple feel. As the action begins gear, Coleman’s pencil adds a lot of zips, along with Scott Hanna’s ink and the colours of Brian lever and Eric Alciniga. The energy effects are rich and have a cool look that is common to a variety of forces. The villain design is also very good, reminiscent of a black order in some respects. They have the appearance of a supervillain team, horrifying.
Randy sets up a major conflict that is rather compelling outside of action and character work. Infinity Watch is significantly weaker early on, and is in a very high situation. High Stakes is the name of a superhero comic game, and gives a slight twist to the “everything die” concept. There is also the forefront concept that these characters are basically gods, and together they can fight villains, but they can also create life. Randy has taken this team’s idea and brings it to places other super teams couldn’t go.
The cool power these people have, huh?
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When the story begins, it also has the meaning of the universe. We’re talking about an entirely new universe where teams are different people with different roles. Ah, and a new take of Spider-Man and the Green Goblins appear. That leads to conflicts that literally use caption boxes in their stories. Breaking the fourth wall a bit is a fun snack.
It’s fun for a while, but welcome. The Green Goblin section runs longer than welcome, so there’s a short wait for the final conflict. That final conflict is interesting, but will the hero somehow gain the advantage through pure will? It’s a bit cliché to say the least, but given that they are stone bearers, I think they’ve found deep gear somewhere. It continues its trend of breaking the fourth wall and showing that with the power of Infinity Stone, anything is possible in comics.
Overall, this is a fun runaway with a set of characters that have time to shine once or twice a year. It effectively shows the distance they can go together while enjoying the comic format. Finally, they are returned to the drawer at another time, but there is a great promise that more will come. The Infinity Watch is a space vehicle that swings boldly, and sometimes trips over pacing, but in the end it proves that Infinity Stone Avatars is more than a gimmick. They are an attractive team with untapped potential.
“Infinity Watch: Universal Destruction” is a high-stakes space drama
Infinity Watch: Universal Destruction
Overall, this is a fun runaway with a set of characters that have time to shine once or twice a year. It effectively shows the distance they can go together while enjoying the comic format. Finally, they are returned to the drawer at another time, but there is a great promise that more will come. The Infinity Watch is a space vehicle that swings boldly, and sometimes trips over pacing, but in the end it proves that Infinity Stone Avatars is more than a gimmick. They are an attractive team with untapped potential.
By giving stones a human host, build years of infinity storytelling with fresh spins.
Randy gives each character a voice and personality, distinguishing them from the Avengers, highlighting human and often immoral flaws.
Randy’s dialogue distinguishes each team member while maintaining a different tone from the Avengers-style book.
The art can sometimes feel a little too simple, and the quiet scenes don’t have much depth.
The Green Goblin Sequence extends the welcome and slows down pacing.
The final combat resolution is less original and leaning towards the cliché “pure will.”
