By George ! The Infinity Gauntlet

It has taken me over five years but we finally continue our spotlight on THE INFINITY GAUNTLET by Jim Starlin and George Perez - with a little help by MVP Ron Lim. Which is one reason why it took me such a long time to do this. I wanted to do an all George Perez post for the second part as well but I never got enough material. Well, as it is George Perez is not going to turn any new work in so I decided to make do with what I have right now even if I have to include some Ron Lim art in this part.

Which sounds like I don't appreciate Ron's work and longtime listeners know that is not true since I have been a fan of him long before he came in at the last minute to take over art duties on THE INFINITY GAUNTLET.

For me Ron Lim had been one of the most underappreciated artists at that point and I could not understand why. I read his stuff on a regular basis when he became the regular artist on SILVER SURFER - which also tied in with THE INFINITY GAUNTLET - and THANOS QUEST but I enjoyed most of his stuff like DRAGON LINES, CAPTAIN AMERICA or X - MEN 2099.

Although I didn't buy the last one since my brother already had it on his pull list and so I concentrated my efforts on other Marvel 2099 titles like RAVAGE 2099 ( what can I say, I was young, I had the disposable income and the stunning Paul Ryan art reeled me in ) or SPIDER - MAN 2099.

And I don't claim that I bought every issue he ever made - especially if it already was on my brothers pull list - but I used to have a ton of stuff from him. Including his issues of INFINITY GAUNTLET, INFINITY WAR and THE INFINITY CRUSADE. Man, the only thing that makes it less painful to write about all the issues I no longer have is the fact that I managed to read through all of my issues from the INFINITY series - including tie - in issues - before I had to sell them. As if I knew I was going to loose them.

Now I didn't have all of the tie - ins to THE INFINITY GAUNTLET but most of the main ones and quite a few of the others. INFINITY WAR was when my comic book shop got really enthusiastic about saving me tie - in issues because there were just so darn many of them and I know he thought he was doing me a favour. But - again - I had the disposable income so as long as it was not too outlandish I bore with it. With THE INFINITY CRUSADE I got less tie - in issues but here my brother provided a lot of the ones I skipped including the ALPHA FLIGHT issues. One last thing, with INFINITY WAR I did not only have the main issues and the more important crossover series like WARLOCK AND THE INFINITY WATCH or WARLOCK CHRONICLES but I also bought the INFINITY WAR omnibus as it was one of the many omnibus I bought in bulk when it was offered at amazon shortly before Christmas with a huge discount. I think I paid 25 EUROS at the most and I sadly didn't get to read it before I bought it. I know it was too heavy to take it with me to Spain but seeing how much you pay for it on amazon now makes me wish I could have held on to it.

But that's enough of me crying in my metaphorical beer ( in reality the most exotic beverage I have at the moment is pineapple juice, oh how the mighty have fallen ) so let's give good old George a heartfelt salute in the great beyond and dive into some INFINITY GAUNTLET goodness.