I think an easy way to look at Thanos stories is that anything written by Jim Starlin, Ron Marz and Keith Giffen is the real Thanos while anything written by other authors should be dismissed as a Thanosi clone.
An excerpt of Aaron's farewell letter was published on Newsarama:
https://www.newsarama.com/47889-jaso...ng-thor-4.html
It's pretty touching, the fact that a writer can stay on a single title for so long in this day and age it's quite miraculous.
I'm happy that such an amazing lengthy run of my favorite superhero came about when I was able to truly appreciate it.
I'll be sad when it finally ends, but at least Aaron was able to end it on his terms and was able to leave his mark on a character that has become a household name.
I think an easy way to look at Thanos stories is that anything written by Jim Starlin, Ron Marz and Keith Giffen is the real Thanos while anything written by other authors should be dismissed as a Thanosi clone.
I'm happy he's going
For all the enjoyment some have got from his run imo Thor and Odin and much of the Asgard mythos have suffered terrible use under him
He's had some good points, Jane's run was mostly good
But Thor himself and Odin, I feel have been nothing but damaged
Of course opinions vary
But I for one very much appreciate that it's ending
I think an easy way to look at Thanos stories is that anything written by Jim Starlin, Ron Marz and Keith Giffen is the real Thanos while anything written by other authors should be dismissed as a Thanosi clone.
Yes, Infinity Abyss. Because Starlin wanted Thanos to grow up and retire from being a nihilist villain after Gauntlet but Jurgens ignored the character development and regressed Thanos into a mustache twirling edgelord. Kinda like what DnA and Hickman later did with the character.
I think an easy way to look at Thanos stories is that anything written by Jim Starlin, Ron Marz and Keith Giffen is the real Thanos while anything written by other authors should be dismissed as a Thanosi clone.
The real problem is that almost nobody tries to follow Starlin's Thanos voice. Starlin seemed to be more concerned about continuity and characterisation than being annoyed at Thanos getting pwned by a Tarzan wannabe and Thor. There's a nice bit in Abyss where Gamora mocks a Thanosi speech to a crowd of nihilist cultists, saying that he can't be the Thanos she knows as he moved away from that.
Also Thanos' character development and his interactions with Adam Warlock is what sets him apart from other villainous characters. That and the metaphysical stuff.
If someone writes Emma Frost as a homicidal maniac people would be calling shenanigans and rightly so.
I prefer Thanos to be smart and morally ambiguos thank you very much.
If i spent many years developing a character with a particular voice and arc in mind only to turn around and seeing that character falling into flanderisation at the hands of other careless writers, i would retcon those flanderized versions without mercy.
Thanos should have stopped being used after Gauntlet imo. I don't think he works as a mainstream villain as well as Doom. Because in order to make a multifaceted niche character mainstream you have to flanderize him and erase his more unique and compelling facets while expanding and exagerating the more standard (or banal) facets. There are reasons why they turned MCU Thanos into Space Ra's Al Ghul. Although MCU Thanos is written much better than Bendis' Thanos, or Aaron's Thanos or Hickman's Thanos.
Bottom line, if we can complain about Thor's character derailment, why can't i complain about Thanos' character derailment?
Last edited by CaptainMar-Vell92 of the Kree; 11-16-2019 at 02:37 PM.
I think an easy way to look at Thanos stories is that anything written by Jim Starlin, Ron Marz and Keith Giffen is the real Thanos while anything written by other authors should be dismissed as a Thanosi clone.