Everything around Thanos outside of the movies is a clusterfunk right now. Starlin has gone off the deep end and is going to try to make Thanos above his version of The One Above All. The Thanos ongoing went as close to full Starlin as you can go without the nuttiness that is Starlin using Thanos (and Warlock and his other selves to a lesser extent) as a placeholder for himself (note Starlin grew up in a weird and strict religious household hence stories like Infinity Crusade and the Universal Church of Truth and Starlin's stand in in Thanos becoming "god" all the time with the only way he can lose being to himself).