From: rnmg1200@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Walrus and April)
Subject: Re: Infinity War
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 13:34:41 GMT

In article <1992Sep25.174150.9692@ncsu.edu> raboles@eos.ncsu.edu (RODNEY ALLEN BOLES) writes:
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>The Final Issue of Infinity War is out, and, like the characters, I am
>extremely unsatisfied.  First off, there was absolutely no reason for the
>majority of the heroes to have been involved in this thing. Warlock and crew, the surfer, Doc Strange, and a few others maybe, but not every title. 

Remember what the Magus said.  He included Earth's heroes to confuse matters.
He didn't really expect them to play a major part in the conflict (which they
didn't).  I thought it was a nice touch, actually:  For once, the Supreme 
Being (tm) got to actually save the day instead of Earth's Heroes (tm).  
It's true that Warlock was involved, but it seemed that it was Eternity/
Infinity who really did the job.

>The last few pages were the only good things about this issue. 
>(LAST CHANCE FOR SPOILERS....)
>We still don't know about the Reality Gem, which I figured would be
>the case. They end up revealing that Thanos created a fake gem so that 
>Magus would get the Gauntlet minus reality powers, and be fooled into thinking
>he had control. 
>In the last panel, we see Adam's good-side, which as predicted is female.
>I figure her to play prominently in a storyline in the future.

Probably Infinity Crusade.  I look for her to be leading a "crusade" against
Evil (tm again), planning to "Wipe it off the face of the universe."  Our
Heroes (yes, you guessed it--tm) will have to stop her despite the fact that
she's technically a "good guy"; and Warlock will have something else to 
agonize over, since it's part of him that's causing all the trouble.

>Adam is left comatose, which I'm sure won't last. The gems are back to the watch 
>and Thanos is left with tons of potential as a character. He can now be used 
>as good or evil as writers see fit. I hope he isn't overused. I predict he'll 
>get his own series soon.

Yup, Thanos is back in his own again.  Although I doubt he'll be on the side of
the angels beyond IC (assuming it goes the way I think it will).  He'll 
probably stay in Warlock's comic; I don't think he's "hot" enough to merit his
own book.

>Well, netland, WHAT did you think??

Definitely not as good as the first one.  Taken as part of a trilogy...well,
there's no real sense of continuity.  It's more like taking three different
stories and putting them together, then calling it a trilogy.  The common
threads (the Infinity gems, also known as Deus ex Machina; Warlock/Thanos;
Earth's Heroes) aren't enough to maintain the feeling of continuity, 
especially when things happen that disregard what we know happened previously.
For example, Cap telling Thanos how they nearly beat him when he had the
Gauntlet, then getting all cocky when Thanos tells him he'd toned down his
power levels.  The first problem is that Cap shouldn't remember that (I
believe Warlock erased all memory of the Infinity Gauntlet affair), and the
second is that Cap doesn't *act* like that.  I just don't see Captain America,
Good Soldier, Excellent Tactician, and all-around Careful Guy (all tm, of
course) taking the Infinity Gauntlet lightly.  It just doesn't make sense.  
In all likelihood, he'd be more inclined to err on the side of caution, 
rather than charge blindly into a situation he had no info on.   It's little
things like this that really annoy me, so much so that it ruins my enjoyment
of the overall story.

Also, it would be nice if the next installment didn't have _quite_ so many
crossovers.  Some were okay (I loved the Batman parody in the Moon Knight
crossover, and the Doc Strange/Silver Surfer issues weren't bad except for
that bit with Death in Dr. Strange), but others were atrocious (Captain 
America, which has just generally gone downhill anyway; and the Fantastic
Four crossover was ye standard Focus on Individual Members' Struggles
Storyline (no tm; it's public domain by now:)).  I would be muy happy if
by some twist of Kismet this mini should happen to involve someone _other_
than the heroes of Earth.  Maybe the Heralds of Galactus, and the Sh'iar
Imperial Guard, with the Starjammers thrown in for good measure.   You
could even include the Super-Skrull, and the Kree Starforce (despite the
ridiculous name).  It would be really nice to see a story that focused on
characters from different worlds dealing with this kind of crisis; at the
very least, it'd be a change of pace.  Unfortunately, this kind of story
would never sell, so it'll never happen. :(

>Rodney Boles

The Walrus