Infinity the Hunt 3, Infinity: Heist 2

Infinity the Hunt 3
Kindt (w) and Sanders (a) and Campbell (c)

The kids at the Pan-Asian School, who were launched into space as a protective measure to keep them from the attacks on the ground, have re-routed themselves and crashed down in Wakanda, hoping to fix up their pod and send it to Atlantis to help the Atlantis students. Wakanda, of course, has problems enough as it is and the students from Wakanda have very little interest in helping out Atlantis. The Pan-Asian students help convince them to be the better heroes and, when they eventually arrive, they find that the other kids have beaten them to the area, though the situation itself is pretty dire as Atlantis is already in trouble and these kids have little training and little experience working together. They do their best, which is considerably good, but, in the end, everyone seems primed to be eaten by a ridiculously giant sea-creature.

My problems with this series continue pretty unabated; we're inventing too many new people to really have stakes. There are a handful of students we already know and they're the only ones we can really pick out and, therefore, hope survive. Sure, it'd be neat if everyone made it out alive, but we don't know these other guys, you know? There's no connection and there's no chance to really, in such a short tie-in, make a connection. I'd also say, and this might be only for me personally, that, for as long as the X-kids we're seeing here (like Quentin Quire and Sprite) have been around, I care way more about the FF kids and the Avengers Academy kids, again limiting the weight of the series. It's not necessarily a bad story, per se, it's just...kind of empty?

Infinity: Heist 2
Tieri (w) and Barrionuevo (a) and Pantazis, Mossa, Loughridge, and Fabela (c)

Blizzard passing out last issue, it turns out, was a result of the Terrigen Mists spreading over Earth. That's right, Blizzard is an Inhuman. Now that he's awoken, he sees his transformation as a way to start his life over. He's not quite sure what his transformation means for his powers or anything else but now seems like a good time to turn his life around. Of course, it comes at a bad time for everyone around him, as Spymaster doesn't take the decision to bow out of the heist very well. In retribution, he attacks Blizzard's friend Whirlwind and, when she tries to intercede, Firebrand. He insist they follow-through lest worse happen to them, though he secretly tells Whiplash that none of them is to make it out of the next day alive.

This has a little more weight to it than Infinity the Hunt. It might be because we know the characters a little bit more, it might be because we know the story a little bit better (villain wants to turn his life around but gets pulled back in), or it might just be because it's a smaller cast here. Really, we're only on the side of three people, whereas, in the Hunt, we're on the side of like, probably a billion kids. Granted, they're kids, but they're mostly teenagers and teenagers can be pretty annoying. Who hasn't pictured them eaten by a giant sea-creature at some point? I...I sense I'm getting a little off-topic here. Anyway, this one is decent. There are stakes, there's an enemy who has proven himself fairly powerful and not to be trifled with, there's redemption, there's backstabbing (even for villains), there's a new power-set to be revealed, etc. Plenty happening here to at least make this an entertaining, if not particularly memorable, story.