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[Bowser]

Originally Posted by Swanman

I just finished up reading the Annihilation and Annihilation: Conquest series and they were damn good. The two series serve as a nice backstory for a lot of the Guardians of the Galaxy characters (Starlord, Rocket Raccon, Drax, Gamora, Quasar, Adam Warlock, Moondragon, Groot, Ronan the Accuser, etc). It also has some of the biggest villains in Marvel in them - Annihilus, Galactus, Ultron and Thanos.

Nice.

How about you Swanman, dipped your toe into the Infinity storyline yet?

I keep asking to see if it's worth getting into just on the name comics alone, or if I'm going to have to pick up all the offshoot storylines as well. DC did that with Blackest Night, and I found it annoying.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by Bowser

Nice.

How about you Swanman, dipped your toe into the Infinity storyline yet?

I keep asking to see if it's worth getting into just on the name comics alone, or if I'm going to have to pick up all the offshoot storylines as well. DC did that with Blackest Night, and I found it annoying.

Are you talking about the infinity gauntlet storyline?

I really didn't like how it ended (kind of a cheat) but it was good.

I liked the Inferno and AOA events better...

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by Rausch

Are you talking about the infinity gauntlet storyline?

I really didn't like how it ended (kind of a cheat) but it was good.

I liked the Inferno and AOA events better...

No, there is a current storyline titled Infinity that's out right now. Started a month or two ago. Basically it sounds kind of boring - this ancient race called The Builders are advancing through the universe destroying everything only to re-create everything, and everyone teams up to stop them. Thanos is featured in this thing, as is the Infinity Gauntlet.....

I'm a sucker for these cosmic encompassing stories. That all started with Secret Wars all those years ago. The comics Swanman was talking about sound good to me, as well.

[scorpio]

Haven't read any of Infinity yet but I'm digging Battle of the Atom. Recently I've been buying up a bunch of the omnibuses for stuff I read as a kid (X-Cutioners Song, Fatal Attractions, AoA, Knightfall, etc.) I still have all the original comics bagged and boarded, just don't want to spill beer on them or something
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[scorpio]

Also enjoying Superior Spiderman.

[Jamie]

Originally Posted by Bowser

Nice.

How about you Swanman, dipped your toe into the Infinity storyline yet?

I keep asking to see if it's worth getting into just on the name comics alone, or if I'm going to have to pick up all the offshoot storylines as well. DC did that with Blackest Night, and I found it annoying.

This is the checklist/reading order they've been printing in the back of each issue.



I think all the stuff on this list is necessary, but I'm not sure how it would read if you just did Infinity 1-6. There are several tie-ins not on this list, you can safely skip those.

[Swanman]

Originally Posted by Bowser

Nice.

How about you Swanman, dipped your toe into the Infinity storyline yet?

I keep asking to see if it's worth getting into just on the name comics alone, or if I'm going to have to pick up all the offshoot storylines as well. DC did that with Blackest Night, and I found it annoying.

I have some of the offshoots because I have subscriptions to Avengers and New Avengers so they are involved. I am way behind but I will say this: if Thanos is involved, it's probably pretty good.

[beach tribe]

Originally Posted by Swanman

if Thanos is involved, it's probably pretty good.

Absolutely. Thanos is always the center of something HUGE.
Best Villain Ever.