What I look for when reading anything is strong characters and a distinct narrative voice. A story can be ambitious and large in scope but if that is the focus of the book, it needs to be compelling enough to sustain that book. I’m explaining myself because I’m not enjoying Jonathan Hickman’s Infinity as much as I want to and it’s not because I don’t appreciate the attempt at telling a grandiose story that spans galaxies, but because the story Hickman has chosen, and the way he’s telling it, are the reasons why I feel Infinity is a lacklustre Event comic.

The story is that the universe creators, the Builders, have targeted Earth in their current campaign of destruction and, rather than wait until they’re right in front of our planet, Captain America has led the Avengers to bring the fight to where...