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Of Embassies and Origins - Justice League International Part 2 (Eaglemoss Collection v77)

  Review: Since we are doing a series of reviews focusing on Booster Gold over his nearly 40-year history, we include this one as a collection of some of his earliest appearances, dating to late 1987. That places the original publish date of these tales while his original solo series was still going strong.  This book is a beautiful, glossy hard-cover with smooth and heavy-stock paper inside, although the sometimes-low print reproduction quality leads to blurred and hard to read word balloons on occasion. It is also a rare book here in North America, as Eaglemoss Collections targeted UK fans with this series. At this point in the history of the 1987-rebooted Justice League, they have gained official United Nations recognition and sanction. To ensure their reach truly is global, they rebrand as Justice League International (as does the title of the series!) and they open new headquarters buildings around the world: New York, Paris and Moscow are included here. As this is a product of 19
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Setting the Cosmic Table - Infinity Gauntlet: Warzones!

 

Infinity Gauntlet - WarZones cover


Review:

This is an engaging, absorbing and visually stunning book. Perhaps the best of the Battleworld Warzones! tales.

Author Gerry Duggan has penned an emotionally powerful story that keeps you on the edge of your seat. It puts high expectations on the reader, to be able to follow some jumps in both time and space, but the brief, well-written narrative exposition sections hold our hands just enough to get us through.

The giant bugs that have wreaked havoc on this civilization, reappear several times to threaten Anwen and her family. The threat is so intense that it must have been a miracle that she has survived this long, with her little sister, father and grandfather. And dog Zigzag, whose fate will have you holding your breath more than once.

Thanos and his pursuit of the Infinity Stones adds a whole different twist to the tale, and his use of the Time Stone leads to some intra-story revisions to their history. Especially poignant is his fireside chat with Anwen about the freedom of being alone vs the weakness of family.

When they are all given Nova Stars, their odds of surviving the Bugs rises, although their near-instantaneous mastery of Nova powers is one of the very few weak spots in this amazing tale.

As strong as the story is, the art matches it perfectly. Dustin Weaver has drawn an amazing book. His characters jump off the page and from panel to panel, flowing from the dystopian destruction of their society to the mountains, the forests, outer space, and more. Yet it all fits and meshes into a single jaw-dropping whole. The bugs are monstrously huge and ferocious; Thanos is intense, inscrutable, weathered and wrinkled.

The promotional blurb, when I first read it, seemed overblown, claiming that this book would "set the cosmic table for the Marvel Universe for years to come!" Yet at the end we are left with the sense that it may just have accomplished that aim. Well worth the time and money, 4.5 capes out of 5.



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Think your life is hard? Anwen Bakian's family lives in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, scrounging for food and avoiding giant bugs intent on eating them. Mom left years ago to join the Nova force and never came back. So it's just Anwen, her dad, her sister and her grandpa against the huge insects. That is, until she finds a mysterious stone that may or may not hold incredible cosmic power. Don't miss this incredible new book by DEADPOOL writer Gerry Duggan and EDGE OF SPIDER-VERSE writer/artist Dustin Weaver that will set the cosmic table for the Marvel Universe for years to come!

Collects: INFINITY GAUNTLET #1-5

Authors: Gerry Duggan
Artists: Dustin Weaver
Published By: Marvel 
Published When: Dec 22 2015
Parental Rating: Teen
ISBN-10: 0785198741
ISBN-13: 978-0785198741
Language: English
Pages: 112 pages

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