The first comic you read in 2024 will set the tone for your year...hmm.

From 2018, Infinity Countdown: Adam Warlock #1, written by Gerry Duggan, art by Michael Allred.

I got a fistful of this crossover from the dollar bins a couple weeks back; or at least I got a bunch of comics with "Infinity" in the title, from recent years. Not the classic Gauntlet/War/Crusade trilogy, or the later Starlin works; but this one still features confused cosmic messiah Adam Warlock, this time seemingly removed from his cocoon by Kang the Conqueror. Kang claims to be a old friend, and after recapping a bit of Adam's history, takes him to the familiar current problem: Thanos had the Infinity stones again, and had already killed them like 113 times. Time for a different tack: Kang opts to send Adam back through time, to get the Soul and Time Stones first. Kang is then seemingly killed, but defiant, still proclaims he will win in the end.

Adam is sent back further than expected, back to ancient Egypt, and Rama-Tut, who is not overly surprised to see him. Here, Rama-Tut seems to know he would eventually become Kang, and the two communicated through "messages in bottles." He doesn't want to get into it with Adam, but knows where the Soul Gem will be in 2018. (Warlock still uses the term "Soul Gem," while I think "Stones" were more currently used; but of course Adam had a more intimate relationship with his.) Rama-Tut had prepared for Adam, and how to get him to the Soul Gem and a rematch with the Magus: the slow way. Saying other means were too risky with the Stones gathered, Rama-Tut stabs Adam, causing him to form another cocoon, and takes measures so his regeneration would be slow, and he would wake up in the future. The incapacitated Adam doesn't really get much of a say in that, but it doesn't seem like a fun trip... 

This would be continued in Infinity Countdown Prime, which I may have picked up as well; but the numbering scheme on this one is an infinite nightmare. Put some numbers on the damn things.