Marvel didn't completely ignore the MCU (besides the many Guardians of the Galaxy comics that conspicuously populated after the movie's smash success). There was also Infinity Wars.
Technically, revisiting the Infinity Gauntlet saga has been continuing for years, thanks in large part to Jim Starlin, although just as technically, fans have never been all that interested in Starlin's follow-ups. Infinity Wars, which happened to coincide with the MCU finally, finally getting back to Thanos, collecting all those Infinity Stones, is exactly what you might expect: another story about the Infinity Stones, who has them, what they're doing with them.
Turns out, turning Marvel into its own Amalgam Comics. Amalgam was the result of the landmark DC Versus Marvel (or, Marvel Versus DC) that happened in the '90s, in which, temporarily, in a series of one-shots (and then a second series of one-shots), DC and Marvel superheroes were mashed together. I guess it's not surprising that the whole thing came and went and has left no real impact (aside from quibbles about who should've fought who, and who should've won, which I will not get into here), since it would require both companies to continue to agree on republishing the results, and that's not likely to happen. Marvel, in collected edition, lives in a virtually perpetual present while DC loves revisiting its past. (Of course, half of what made Marvel such a fan favorite phenomenon was that reboots never happened. Then of course they started happening. All. The. Time. So that, even if technically everything still happened, it really no longer matters. The only property with a semblance of real continuity at this point is the X-Men.)
Anyway, so as you might guess, this "Infinity Warp" mashes Iron Man with Thor.
The results are decent. The writer is Al Ewing, who is definitely one of Marvel's best assets at the moment, so that certainly helps. And it helps that he doesn't go too on-the-nose, which is what Thor comics tend to do, leaning far too heavily on the archaic language Thor tends to use for...reasons, and not having any real clue what to do with the mythology (but then, even Neil Gaiman didn't know what to do with Norse mythology when he literally wrote Norse Mythology, a striking contrast to how he used it in The Sandman).
I didn't read those Amalgamation comics but some of them sounded pretty neat. So for this one was it that Thor needed an Iron Man suit for some reason?
ReplyDeleteI think the armor was basically incorporated into the concept of Mjolnir, something like that.
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