![]() ![]() It’s normally understood that audiences should be given all the information they need to understand a narrative, as thoroughly and as economically as possible it’s normally forbidden to leave spectators baffled. I like that-not a “film,” not an episode in a series, but a “story event.” It’s true: Avengers: Infinity War doesn’t adhere to the standard rules of Hollywood narrative, or to the conventions of a sequel. It is a sequence of connections.” Ellis, whose work includes Transmetropolitan and Hellblazer, as well as Marvel titles including Iron Man and X-Men, is well placed to comment on the strange logic of comic book narrative in general, and in this particular case, on “what is often an extraordinarily unconventional story event.” It is not ‘a film’ as that term is commonly understood. The nineteenth in the series of Marvel movies-the crowning piece in this phase of the ever-expanding edifice that is the so-called Marvel Cinematic Universe- Infinity War is, Ellis says in his blog, “perhaps best understood as an unprecedented brand power move. The definitive word on Avengers: Infinity War may have been said this week by comics author Warren Ellis. ![]()
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