195. Infinity Crusade #1 to 6 ... Marvel ... Jim Starlin ...

These 6 issues basically ended the second arc of Marvel's space themed adventures with the first during the introduction of characters like Warlock and Captain Marvel. This second round started with the highly successful Infinity Gauntlet and followed up by the less successful Infinity War and now ended with this the Crusade

But you knew it had to come

Gauntlet was Thanos ... and War had Warlock's bad side trying to seize control of creation ... however, during that time, for those not in the two, it was clearly explained that Warlock is a being that has expunged his own good and bad natures ... and these 2 have become entities of their own with immeasurable powers ... that's why the fact that we see the bad without the good ... well ...

So here we see that even the Good half of Warlock is ... bad news ... truly!

She calls herself the Goddess and she is trying to make the world and the universe a better place by bringing fast forward the Rapture Event ... where an overcrowded world suddenly loses half its people! So we see some heroes just disappearing too

Naturally a panic ensues and before we know it a team has been assembled to discover the presence of the Goddess. However, not all heroes agree that she is bad news. So at the start we have no idea if the heroes are acting of their own free will or indirectly influenced when they chose to stand by the side of the Goddess

It is into this mix, that the series failed. It kept stretching on to ensure that there is six issues when perhaps a 4 issue arc would have suffice

Sigh!

Ratings: 6/10