Friday, April 27, 2018

Devil Comics Review | Avengers [2018] Infinity War


The Infinity War is an accumulation of ten years of Marvel Studios storytelling. The setting begins in space to showcase the unlimited landscape this story will take place in before contracting back to Earth. Throughout Infinity War the story goes back and forth from space to Earth. 

Space Stone
Infinity War begins after the final moments of Thor: Ragnarok as the Thanos and the Black Order arrives to retrieve the Space Stone from Loki. Hemidall sends the Hulk to Earth leaving Thanos no choice to kill him and Loki. Thanos sends his Black Order to retrieve the two Infinity Stones the Time and the Mind on Earth while he finds the others including the Reality and the Soul Stone. Thanos has already retrieve the Power Stone on Xandar the homeworld of the Nova Corps.

Time Stone
The Hulk arrives on Earth at the home of Dr. Strange who gathers Tony Stark as the Black Order arrives to retrieve the Time Stone from Dr. Strange. They succeed and the ship heads back to Thanos’ homeworld of Titan with Tony Stark, Spider-Man, and Dr. Strange.

Mind Stone
The story focuses on Vision and the Scarlet Witch and their relationship before the Black Order arrives to retrieve the Mind Stone. With overwhelming odds, Steve Rogers and his Secret Avengers arrive to stop them and together with Vision and the Scarlet Witch they all head to Wakanda.

Reality Stone
The Guardians of the Galaxy find Thor floating in space after Thanos destroyed the Asgardian ship. The Guardians discover Thanos is gathering the Infinity Stones and his next stop is Knowhere where the Collector has the Reality Stone. The Guardians heads towards Knowhere to retrieve the Reality Stone while Thor, Rocket and Groot go off to somewhere to create the Thanos killer – the Stormbreaker. The Guardians arrive on Knowhere only to discover Thanos has already taken the Reality Stone and he gets her adopted daughter Gamora because she knows the location of the Soul Stone. 

Soul Stone
Thanos tortures Gamora’s sister Nebula until Gamora reveals the location of the Soul Stone. She reveals it to him and together they head towards its location and find the Soul Stone’s keeper the Red Skull who has been trapped on the planet since the First Avenger. He reveals the Soul Stone can only be retrieved if the bearer sacrifices the one thing he loves. Thanos sacrifices his adopted daughter Gamora and retrieve the Soul Stone. 

Titan (Time Stone)
Doctor Strange, Iron Man, and Spider-Man arrive on Titan along with the Guardians and together they await for Thanos’ arrival. Doctor Strange discovers there are 14 million possibilities but only one where the heroes win. Thanos defeats them all and Doctor Strange surrenders the Time Stone to save Tony Stark believing this is the only way to win against Thanos.

Earth (Mind Stone)
The Secret Avengers teams up with Black Panther in Wakanda and fend off against Black Order which they defeat until Thanos arrives and retrieves the Mind Stone from Vision. The Scarlet Witch destroys Vision to prevent the Mind Stone from falling into the hands of Thanos. He understands why she destroyed the Mind Stone and he uses the Time Stone to bring back Vision and retrieve the Mind Stone. Now with all six stones Thanos has assembled the Infinity Gauntlet. Thor arrives and impales Thanos with the Stormbreaker. Thanos replies by saying Thor should have aimed for his head and then he snaps his fingers wiping out half of the universe.  As the half the universe disappears, Nick Fury sends out a distress call to Captain Marvel. Thanos wins and watches the sunset smiling.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED – 5 OUT OF 5