Not keen on what I've heard as to the cosmic power up nor to his new situation at all
After infinity Gauntlet, Thanos was no longer a nihilist villain obsessed with magic macguffins and he became a lonely farmer who would occasionally help Adam Warlock and other heroes save the universe. The Ka-zar and Thor stories that got retconned in Infinity Abyss by Starlin regressed Thanos into a mustache twirling villain. So i have no issues with retconning writers that ignore genuine character development.
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.
First issue was good I thought. I plan on reading along with Cates for now.
Very interesting story. (Slightly disturbed by the apparently huge death toll that only got a passing mention.)
The writing is very tight, so much so that by the time I was a third of the way through I may as well have read it all because everything just played out in the only way it could. Which felt a little like Gillen. I suspect the final reveal will have an abrupt twist in the next issue, and things will not be as they are being ‘heralded’.
Loving the art.
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
"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.
I'd rather not read about jerky, blusterous, Thor but that seems to be how Cates conceptualizes the character.
Last edited by Cronus; 01-01-2020 at 10:02 PM.
"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.
I wont whine about this too much since it is just start of a new series so we should give it a chance and some time, but the one real problem with Cates is his inconsistency in power levels and you can be "well i don't care about power levels all you want" but it's still comics and when it's overly noticeable it gets rather jarring and hinders any enjoyment of the comic.
Thor by himself is already a herald level character you add the power cosmic and he goes closer to characters like Thanos while he leaves characters like Hulk, Superman and even Surfer behind him, now if Cates and others manage to write him like that all will be fine but i am not really confident in it. His potential fight with Bill, Valkyrie and Captain Glory are not filling me with confidence as of now.
Valkyrie Jane has the Aaronforce, Thor could have the classic Odinforce and the knowledge of the Runes and she would still find a way to beat him in a comedic and pathetic way.
Aaron won't waste any chance to make his waifu look like the coolest thing ever since the peanut butter sandwich and to spite Thor fans.
Last edited by CaptainMar-Vell92 of the Kree; 01-02-2020 at 01:37 AM.
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.