Really? I hear WAY more about Superior and DD than Bendis or the X-Men these days.
And personally, while there were good parts, I felt Infinity 6 was underwhelming. And Thanos' fall was horribly underwhelming. I mean, look back at the series and Thanos didn't actually do squat. Well, he did fight with Blackbolt, but other than that, nothing. He was very underwhelming. Compared to his feats from Annihilation backwards, this was a pale comparison to his previous portrayals. And even his defeat was a bit of a rip off of a previous defeat. While I'm sure it was meant to be a homage, the fact that it was done off panel by someone who has not really been built as any sort of character (yet) was horribly underwhelming.
I know people around here seem to think Infinity has become the holy grail of events, but this was a very lackluster story with some neat moments. No character development, no clear plot thread, no real anything resembling a well crafted story. It was just two stories discombobulated into an event that didn't really do anything in the end safe show a few heroic moments against some no name villains, and one named villain acting boring.
One thing I will praise, and I will only praise this a little, is that 2 maybe 3 of Thanos' generals became interesting by the end and could become interesting individual villains down the road. Also the art was always top notch.
But having read the entire event, I'd say this was one of the worst. I have been saying that it wasn't as bad as AvX, but I'm starting to question really. It's at least in that category. Of modern events: House of M, Civil War, Secret Invasion, Siege, Annihilation, Annihilation Conquest, War of Kings, and Thanos Imperative were all better without question. Fear Itself and AvX are closer to this event, but I'm not sure if they are worse. While character portrayals were worse, the stories were at least more entertaining and had a clear direction. But at least it was better than Battle of the Atom.
Infinity, in my opinion, was a mess. The Builders were built up to be this HUGE threat but turned out to be no different than any other race. We had multiple Mcguffin wins like with Starbrand and Thrane. We had one of the greatest villains of the Marvel Universe in a role that could have been plugged in by just about anyone else. We had so many characters that not a single one got any decent character growth (except for maybe Starbrand and Ex Nihlo... and both of those were fairly minor).
I could go on but it'd get boring if it isn't already. This event sucked, and I can't help but wonder it's only because of the "at least it isn't Bendis" kool-aid that's making people claim otherwise.
