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.
In fairness, it's not like Thanos never jobbed anyone himself. Like when he somehow rediscovered that he had elite level psionic abilities that he hadn't used ever to detect and stop Monica Rambeau before she could EMP his brain. It's like the writer decided that this was now the perfect time to give Thanos all of the classic Eternals attributes, and oh, by the way, he's a top psionic at that level, and even though he could have used those powers to telepathically paralyze everyone that he ever faced without breaking a sweat and easily win the day, he never did.
So, yeah, if Thanos gets jobbed, so be it. He has it coming.
Eh, I'd rather Thanos not be jobbed out. I mean, I get it. For characters with decades of continuity, circumstances (and sub-par writing) are bound to eventually catch up to any character. I find myself getting a little irritated when it's one of my favorites though, so yeah.
"Sir, does this mean that Ann Margret's not coming?"
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"One of the maddening but beautiful things about comics is that you have to give characters a sense of change without changing them so much that they violate the essence of who they are." ~ Ann Nocenti, Chris Claremont's X-Men.
Who's writing Eternals again?
"Cable was right!"
I don't want him to be over-powered. I just don't want him:
1) Everywhere
2) Used worse than the guy who shot Uncle Ben.
"Cable was right!"