Not a bad first issue. Not what I was expecting, but I’ll see where it goes. I like Cates to try and have a long run here. Aside from Venom, he has only really had short stints on runs.
Not a bad first issue. Not what I was expecting, but I’ll see where it goes. I like Cates to try and have a long run here. Aside from Venom, he has only really had short stints on runs.
So Thor needs a external power upgrade to be "powerful" again...Oh well...
Journey into Mystery #112 Jan 1965
"The Mighty Thor Battles the Incredible Hulk!"
Two rival fan clubs are debating who is stronger, Thor or the Hulk?;
Thor happens to be passing by and drops in to offer his opinion;
He relates the story of their epic battle in Avengers #3
and describes a previously unseen scene in which he and the Hulk tussle;
He goes into deep thought and when pressed, cannot say who is the stronger because he has insufficient proof!
Script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Chic Stone
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 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.
It's nice finally having a good well written issue of Thor again. I see Donny has been reading What Ifs. That is where he obviously got the idea for the surprise at the end of the issue.
Donny has written some good stuff for Marvel. My only fear is he writes very big very quickly, and this works because he doesn’t stick around for long (Venom being the exception)...I’m interested in seeing where all this goes but I hope he is able to tone things down slightly so we can enjoy some character beats too.
I loved this. Cates got the “high speak” write for the characters . He got the humor in without mocking.
2 issues tho.
You don’t get more epic than what he is setting up. Where do you go from here? Unless its one giant 30 issue run.
The last page epic reveal, the art really left me underwhelmed. Its not a great page.
The real problem is that almost nobody tries to follow Starlin's Thanos voice and complexity. 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 his nihilist wannabe phase.
Also Thanos' character development, contradictions 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 or Rogue as a sadistic vampire 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?
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 guess I overreacted to the whole power thing. This was the best Thor issue in ages. Cate's loves the character, and I think the run will be epic!