Review by Ian Keogh

For a long time the six infinity stones have been dangerous items, coveted by Thanos among others for their ability to change almost anything. More recently some have been embedded in people, with former Captain Marvel enemy Star actually progressing to her own graphic novel. Now Black Cat has been tasked with acquiring them, so will their being embedded within people make that easier or harder?

Since ending his ongoing plots Jed MacKay has rather left Black Cat at a loose end. Sure, she’s a thief, so there’s always another score, but even with the revelation as to what she’s really up to Infinity Score never approaches the highs of MacKay at his best. Neither is it artist C.F. Villa on top form. His most ambitious spread provides the sample art, yet when compared with similar compositions used by Bruno Redondo on Nightwing there’s a lack of finesse. The idea is good, but it’s difficult to understand what’s going on and where. It’s not being fair on Villa to present the spread out of context, but even knowing who the characters are and what they want, the difficulties remain.

MacKay populates the story with several guest stars, but they’re all single note, with some barely used at all, and their purpose never entirely clear when other methods of achieving the same ends are apparent. As motivation he also uses an attempt to prolong the life of a dying person, last used to conclude his long-running plots in I’ll Take Manhattan.

On Black Cat MacKay started very strongly, but the way has been lost. See for yourself in the hardcover compilation Black Cat by Jed MacKay Omnibus. However, MacKay hasn’t quite finished with Felicia Hardy yet. There’s Iron Cat to come.