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Avengers: Infinity War Review — Oh Snap!

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Over the years, as I’ve continued to assert Avengers is the best movie in the MCU, I’ve held that nothing could surmount the film’s delivery on expectations. Everything in the nascent MCU from 2008 to 2012 built to that moment of the Avengers coming together for the first time to save New York. The film’s ability to turn all that hype and world-building into a genuinely thrilling, humorous, compelling story is the reason we still even have the MCU. What could be bigger?

The answer, of course, came at the end of that same Avengers, as the budding Marvel Cinematic Universe introduced Thanos and his quest to collect the infinity stones for himself. That introduction has led to an often tangential throughline for Marvel movies from 2012 to 2018, all building to the release of Avengers: Infinity War. [Read more…] about Avengers: Infinity War Review — Oh Snap!

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Best Comics To Read With Avengers: Infinity War

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It’s hard to understate the hype for Avengers: Infinity War. The entire Marvel Cinematic Universe has been building to this moment since 2012 (and really since 2008). Appropriately, this hype is manifesting in a desire to binge read loads and loads of comics, and I’ve got you covered with related recommendations.

Below you’ll find 10 recommended reads that either inspire or connect to the characters and themes in Avengers: Infinity War. [Read more…] about Best Comics To Read With Avengers: Infinity War

I Can Legacy Clearly Now #6: Avengers #672 – Worlds Are Colliding, Jerry!

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Avengers #672 opens with extremely effective and intriguing framing. From top to bottom, the page – written by Mark Waid and rendered by Jesus Diaz – presents Peter Parker, Spider-Man, delivering a flash-like vibrating warning. As your eye-line tries to uncover the infinitely overlaid message, Peter transitions panel by panel into Miles Morales, the Champions’ Spider-Man. [Read more…] about I Can Legacy Clearly Now #6: Avengers #672 – Worlds Are Colliding, Jerry!

AVENGERS #43 Review: “Don’t You (Forget About Me)”

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On the heels of all the reductive funneling found in the last few installments of writer Jonathan Hickman’s Avengers epic, this week’s issue takes a slightly different tactic. Front-loaded with several flashback segments, “…And All That’s Left is Ashes” is surprisingly additive as it plows ahead. It’s a lot like throwing on a bunch of last minute topping ingredients right before the whole thing goes into the oven that is Secret Wars. [Read more…] about AVENGERS #43 Review: “Don’t You (Forget About Me)”