105. Infinity War #! to 6 ... Marvel ...

After the overwhelming success of the first mini series, a sequel was rarely in doubt and true enough Marvel released volume 2. With the word Infinity, you know it means that the Infinity Gems must still have a presence in the series, right? Right

Basically, instead of Thanos, this series' primary villain is the Magus. The Magus is one facade of Warlock's personality. You see, years ago, when Warlock was created and in his various adventures, he had an incident where the 2 sides of him, the good and bad were separated from his core being. This is why Warlock always looks so cold and almost unemotional and can do the necessary things that needs to be done regardless of how others perceived him because for him, the ends justify the means, literally. He is not your typical do-gooder and can do what is deemed evil to get what he wants

So the bad side of him has emerged as an individual named the Magus. In one of the futures, Magus has formed a religion around him and here in our world, he is trying to scheme his way to retrieve the Gems in order to rule the Universe. Yup, here in Infinity, we are not talking company, country or earth. We are talking whole universes

About the only disappointment for me is the artwork. Yes, they have Ron Lim and yes, I think he does supersonic work in Surfer but having this series come out and with extra pages every month, his normally super polished work looks so rushed and incomplete. There are some very obvious pages where the lines are sketchy at best and almost no detailing

However, on the flip side, at least there is a decent set of covers. Hah! And sales wise, naturally this fails when compared to series 1

Ratings: 6/10