Infinity War Paperback – Illustrated, July 10, 2012

If your reading this because the movie had same name, then your wasting your time here and need to go to infinity gauntlet. This is the aftermath of that story. Even still, I highly recommend this amazing written story. Seeing the evil version of characters facing each other is pretty nice to see, also the aftermath of this/ side story was also good as you learn more about Gamora's relationship with Thanos.

This comic book looks so amazing.

The collection is oddly formatted, it includes the core infinity war books which stand on their own, as well as tie in issues of infinity watch and a collection of thanos backups which occur in the middle of the story. That's fine but they're not really assembled in a reading order that makes sense. The infinity watch books happen in between issues of infinity war, but they're put at the end like an epilouge when they probably should have been throughout. The thanos stories are more self contained and work fine as an epilouge, but the infinity watch issues don't really connect to each other so much as they do the main title, so reading them all at the end is a little weird.The quality of the stories fairs better than the collection itself, but it's notably worse than the previous infinity gauntlet story, it hits a lot of the same notes but never quite as well. Overall the book is just okay but it's high notes are really high, the included infinity watch books are a bit better and help push it above 3 stars. If you've already read infinity gauntlet and want more it's not disappointing, but if you're looking for a starting point or want to read something in anticipation of the new movie check out gauntlet first.

Except for the underwhelming Mole Man and his roster of monsters, the Infinity War presents a lively follow up to Infinity Gauntlet Aftermath. Some unprecedented alliances form to either prevent all reality's destruction or gain ultimate power themselves. Galactus, Eternity, Thanos, and the Living Tribunal make their grandiose appearances again, and Doctor Doom and Kang weave their way into important roles. With an astounding and ingenious plot twist, the Infinity War takes the title of a "must-read" for the Marvel finatic.

Just in time for Infinity War the movie! This book isn't the movie in comic form, but it does give you a great deal of background into Thanos and the heroes who tried to save the universe. Makes an excellent companion to the movie!

This book was great in its own way. It was definitely not what I expected but it had a good plot. I thought Thanos would be the villain but he was not.

Bought to complete comic book set.

Before I say anything else, let it be STRONGLY said that I am a true- die hard- Marvel Comics fan. I met Stan Lee at a comic convention back around 2001... BEST day of my life. Review: I read the Infinity Gauntlet-for the first time- before reading this collection. To me - even as much of a Marvel Comics fan as I am- this Infinity War collection doesnt follow the events of Infinity Gauntlet... where mass numbers of the Earth's population could be erased...as seriously as it could have. Dont get me wrong- I love and admire the artistry and characters included- it's just that the story seems a little too much like a 'The good guy always wins' story to follow the collection that came out before this comic book mark.