Plus you coukd easily see thanos wasnt going all out
He was having fun, trash talking gary Payton style, playing with his food before he got hit by something he thought he could "burst like a soap bubble"
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Yeah the story made it clear he had the entire team completely outclassed. And that's saying a lot given how ridiculously powerful this team is.
So while I wouldn't say anything we saw necessarily qualifies as a feat, it was nonetheless a strong showing because it highlighted just what sort of a beast Thanos is.
As has been the pattern, "the Ultimates" continues to impress.
On a purely fan-boy level, Thanos' monologue was what it needed to be. Ewing had Thanos address a character on page, and the readers, with an info-dump on Marvel's cosmic state. There is an overt nod to Starlin's (finally) resolved Thanos and Warlock dynamic. It is made clear that the "current" Thanos (who is not really the old Thanos) will never have the same editorial issues as the old Thanos (constantly bouncing between redemption and corruption).
Ewing touches on the idea that things are in disarray (partly because of the Ultimates' actions). And, he plays off the obligatory cross-over in a way that works for this series. (As pointed out by others in this thread, Ewing is arguably giving it more thought than Bendis has been giving the main event.)
This issue really hints at how much I am going to miss Rocafort on art. The new art is not inherently bad. But, it is a huge step down from Rocafort.
Evidence says this is not likely.- They use the machine... and it basically breaks Thanos brain by stopping all his electrical synapses. He aint dead thoug ahd T'challa wonders if he even can die.
I would prefer a 4-inch figure. (I already have a Black Panther and two Captain Danvers figures in that scale. But, either way, I want the team in on scale or another.)Now, I'd like to take the time to ask Marvel an important question: Where is our Marvel Legends Blue Marvel figure?!?!?!............ C'mon Man!
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Yes, if he thought that he was facing Sentry, Thor, Black Bolt, etc., he would have made a strong business decision and dispatched them with prejudice. But remember, Thanos was extremely confident that he was facing lesser opponents who had slim chance of beating him a second time physically. He didn't bring it in full measure and he lost because of it. He won't make that mistake a third time. The next time that he faces the Ultimates, expect someone to get seriously injured within Thanos' first two moves. Then again, maybe the next time they face him, Anti-Man and/or Galactus will be there in the Ultimates' corner. Honestly, that's the fight that I was hoping to see. Thanos is Thanos, the Ultimates can't stop him, but Anti-Man comes to his senses long enough to help out his friend Brashear. And then all hell breaks loose.
Blue Marvel has a holding cell at his Mariana Trench HQ (Kadesh) that is said to be "Thanos proof." They could hold him there, or MAC can port him off-world. No, I don't see Thanos falling for a "trap door" trick, but you never know. The problem is that you don't want Thanos anywhere near the Iso-Cosmic Cube that he covets. It really doesn't make any sense at all to imprison him anywhere near Terra Firma. I would have put him back in chains and ported him to the Neutral Zone. Deep, deep, deep in the Neutral Zone.But I can't help but wonder... if they can't contain him there, where will they take Thanos? Perhaps relocate him to a prison in another dimension?
This team needs Quasar and maybe another fighter.
Some of us wait, some of us act.
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Rocafort isn't coming back for year 2?
And it seems like he's either not having enough time to finish these last few issues and is being selective on what pages he will draw, hence the quick fill-in artist (and no offense to him/her, but the work does feel rushed at times) or Rocafort just wants to stick to abstract splash page-ish work and leave all the nitty gritty action type scenes largely to someone else.
That's the thing though, should he pursue her as just another machiavellian means to wife up Death.. and miss out on making a good (or evil ) woman out of Hela? Or should he make a genuine effort to move on from death and start a new life with another embodiment of the afterlife?
Aren't these the problems the Ultimates are supposed to solve? I think Thanos just needs a low maintenance girlfriend whose ready to settle down