Giffen on Thanos>>>>>Starlin.
And while I try to have complete and utter faith in Hickman as a writer, I think he has way too much on his plate right now.
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Giffen on Thanos>>>>>Starlin.
And while I try to have complete and utter faith in Hickman as a writer, I think he has way too much on his plate right now.
I still remember the summer of 96 Wizard issues..Mark Waid and everyone wanted Onslaught to be the Galactus of X-Men foils. He was supposed to be a SUPER threat that it would take a miracle to stop...if that. There was really no logical or legitimate way to beat him.
MenacingMonk
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Onslaught had some GREAT quotables in X-Men #53 to Jean Grey...the reveal of Xavier wanting to fukk herbroke her soul and the legendary "I'm a god and to those who do not worship me? I am an ANGRY GOD. Know My Name" burned on her head while she was in shock at the end was legendary
That look on Jean's face was PRICELESS.
She was like "But but but, my mentor would NEVER do that!"
And Onslaught was like "
Nope! I'm a scumbag, now lemme see dem titties 
"
Homie, I admit Starlin made Thanos what he was and was THE DEFINITIVE Thanos writer (warlock/quest/gauntlet/war/crusade) but by the time Thanos' solo series came around, Starlin had gotten stale with the character.
Compare Starlin's first 6 issues of the Thanos series with Giffen's take from 7 on and it shows.
MenacingMonk
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His 12 issue solo run? I thought Starlin's was better. It wasn't great, but the better of the 2 arcs. I thought the second half of the series was decent and only served to build towards Annihilation.
EDIT: If you wanna talk about character development, Giffin's was the better of the two. Story wise I give it to the first half.
This Age of Ultron shyt got me like
A lot of people getting murked supposedly...apparently a big name
Hopefully its Cap he's useless now
MenacingMonk
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What's this Age of Ultron about? Release date? How many issues?
ExodusNirvana
Change is inevitable...
Apparently Ultron wins
It's 10 issues and it's regular continuity. Haflway through the series madd people will be murked.
And apparently there's not gonna be any happy happy joy joy retcon at the end
MenacingMonk
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Got damn, Marvel!!!!!
Age of Ultron, Infinity and Thanos: Rising?!?!?
Too much goodness.
Age of Ultron, Infinity and Thanos: Rising?!?!?
Too much goodness.
ultron is such a lame fukking character..I dont know why they giving this fakkit android all this shine
what marvel should do is start rebuilding Dr Doom,Age of DOOM would be hell of lot better than age of ultron
what marvel should do is start rebuilding Dr Doom,Age of DOOM would be hell of lot better than age of ultron
that's what I mean, though. Starlin had been writing Thanos on autopilot since IG. He was really writing Adam Warlock as a character with Thanos as a foil.
Giffen wrote Thanos with a developed personality as opposed to Starlin writing the Marvel Universe and how it reacted to Thanos' presence.
The last time Starlin showed any kind of personality in Thanos besides Extreme Logic/Anger/Mistress Death pining was when Warlock sonned him in Infinity Gauntlet #5 .
you mean just like civil war, secret invasion, seige etc.....
it will be no one we care about.