Jonathan Hickman assembled a bigger roster of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes! Now the universe’s most powerful villain is gunning for them!
Infinity will be a six-part event by Hickman with artists Jim Cheung, Jerome Opena and Dustin Weaver according to USA Today.
“The universe’s greatest serial killer is cut loose to do bad things to our most precious world,” said Hickman.
Hickman has been planning for this cosmic clash in his Avengers and New Avengers series. I was excited to learn Earth’s Mightiest Heroes will get backup from the Inhumans.
“They’re not like a team of superheroes. They’re a demographic — being an Inhuman is like being Cuban, like being Irish,” Avengers Editor Tom Brevoort says. “Within that strata, there are good guys and bad guys and bystanders and guys who just want to do their job and go home and drink an Inhuman Löwenbräu and kick back.”
Earlier this year Marvel teased Infinity for this year’s Free Comic Book Day issue
The entire Marvel Universe took on
Thanos back in Jim Starlin’s classic Infinity Gauntlet. In the pages of New Avengers by Hickman, Marvel’s biggest brains (aka The Illuminati) are gathering the Infinity Gems in an effort to save the world from rival universes.
Marvel is calling this story the “opening shots of the war that will be heard round the galaxy” and teased a sneak peek at a new series that has not been announced yet. (Adam Warlock?)
Thanos Rising by Jason Aaron and Simone Bianchi is out this week. This series reveals the childhood of the Mad God of Titan.
Infinity starts in August.
By Editor