There was time, a while ago, when Jim Starlin launch the Infinity Gauntlet mini series and it was just plain awesome gathering the world's and universe's heroes and entities against Thanos as the power mad Titan finally assembled all the Infinity Gems thus giving him mastery over all elements of time, space, power, soul, mind etc which means he is almost like a demi-god
Naturally with such a series and its consequent success, Marvel had to try for round two with the Infinity War ... and as the momentum fades ... instead of giving it a rest Marvel pushed for one more round the Infinity Crusade ... where Adam Warlock's good side that was cast out of him had taken the form of a female and she calls herself the Goddess ... with the intention of bringing universal rapture to one and all by force if necessary
And so this issue is one of those that are part and parcel of the bigger series. Where this particular has the opportunity to shine is that it is one big slugfest I kid you not. We started with Hulk and Drax encountering Thor in space where Thor is on the side of the Goddess but at this point in his career, he was already having mental issues. And so we see Hulk floating back to planet side when knocked away leaving Drax and his power gem slugging it out with Thor
There are a few pages of dialogue with Moondragon trying to get Thor back to Earth through a mental/ astral projection but aside from that it is one long drawn out fight between two powerhouses. So what could go wrong here?
The artwork
I am not sure if this is because of artist Tom Grindberg's style or Bob Almond inker but the characters seemed to bloat everywhere in different parts of their body from panel to panel and page to page with some tiny heads and some fat thighs not muscular. It is so painful to view this. You can say that perhaps they are trying to do a Mike Mignola? But failed? Sorry guys so not for our palate
Ratings: 3/10 (could have been nil if not for so many fight panels)
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