6. In Space Nobody Can Hear You Yawn
There are two stories in Infinity - Thanos invades Earth to kill his son, and Captain America and co. head to the stars to take on the evil Builders. Only the Thanos/Inhumans storyline was mildly interesting while the space stuff was utterly boring and, in the end, totally irrelevant. Spaceships fire lasers, spaceships blow up, the Avengers look worried, the bad aliens say bad guy dialogue, some planets blow up, and then for no reason the Avengers start winning and then the bad aliens are defeated. On the edge of your seat yet? Besides it's pointlessness, the space storyline was both simplistic and unnecessarily complicated. On the one hand you can tell when one side is winning and the other is losing, and on the other hand there are a lot of side events happening that have no real bearing on the story. A team of new superheroes for an alien world are introduced, fight the Builders, and lose - we never see them again. An Ex Nihili kills itself on a planet, causing the planet to decay - for no real reason (though I'm sure Prometheus fans liked it). Basically if you loved the Star Wars prequels, you'll love this part of Infinity. It's stupid, bland, colourful, and completely pointless. Why pointless? It has no bearing on the rest of the story. Here's why: the actual story is and should've only been about Thanos and the Inhumans - not a very lengthy story, true, but that's what the entire Event was about, and that's what the consequences of the Event revolve around. Hickman has two other Avengers titles that could've dealt with this travesty of a storyline, he didn't need to drag it into Infinity. If you're like me and don't read Hickman's Avengers books, it's probably because of tedious storylines like this being the focus of those comics turning you off. In other words, you don't want to read this crap in the Event, so don't mix it in, Hickman! And if you're thinking, well the point of this storyline was to draw the Avengers away and leave Earth vulnerable to Thanos and his cretins - no, as you saw in issue #6, Thanos has no problem dealing with the likes of Thor, Hulk, and Captain Marvel, all among the most powerful superheroes in the Marvel U. In other words, Thanos could've launched his attack with or without them there. Plus the Earth had tons of superheroes left behind anyway - Iron Man, Fantastic Four, Black Panther and the rest of Wakanda, Namor and the rest of Atlantis, Doctor Strange, Wolverine and ALL of the X-Men. Earth was far from unprotected, but still fell to Thanos' troops. This entire storyline could've been excised entirely, it was that forgettable and irrelevant. At the very least, you would hope for the sake of it's inclusion that it was interesting - but it wasn't. It was a total waste of time and 100% filler.