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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
schmanderpants's review against another edition
4.0
I hated and loved this book. I love character bios and world building so this book was right up my alley. However, the amount of weird sympathy (that I felt was thrown at my head directly) at the top of the story weighed me down. At the end of the day, yes, MCU’s Thanos sucks majorly but please do not try to get me to pity this sociopath. Math, a genius does not make, since there were clearly many other options to “saving” the universe than eliminating half of the population. MANY. OTHER. OPTIONS.
squidbag's review against another edition
4.0
Well-written, and MCU's the character without overly contradicting his original MU origins. Elements of Thanos Rising and some of the other more recent comics material are seamlessly interwoven - it's all a rich tapestry. Makes him sympathetic - born a deformed mutant, ostracized, distant and/or insane parents, isolated, exiled, enslaved - and also simultaneously less so at the same time. For a brilliant genius, it's hard to believe that the only mathematically workable solution for low resources is extermination by half. Also, his internal ability to meditate on philosophy is curiously stunted in the way that clever serial killers exhibit. Good and compelling, but not without its flaws. Very little of the rest of the MCU is here - it is truly background.