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3.39 AVERAGE
3.39 AVERAGE
[3,5]
I really appreciated to see a story around Thanos. He’s such a complex character, I love that.
I really appreciated to see a story around Thanos. He’s such a complex character, I love that.
Thanos #1-12 is an interesting series published in one volume as Thanos: Redemption. It has an effect on other comics, but it is a bit of an awkward read that doesn’t stand well on its own. The first 4 issues are written by Jim Starling, making it more classic than original. The remaining 8 are written by Keith Griffen. Chapters 5-9 are outstanding with the best writing and artwork of this volume. Chapters 10-12 make for an awkward ending that I think aims more toward advancing the greater cosmic plot than Thanos’s story. This volume has brilliant moments surrounded by mediocrity. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the fantastic character that is Thanos, but as a stand-alone volume, Thanos: Redemption is more of a gallimaufry than a great story.
Three stars is an averaged result here because this is a really uneven collection. As is often the way with Marvel, there’s 6 issues by one writer and 6 by another with minimal enough connection between arc A and arc B. The first arc contains excellent writing with some really spectacular art but then on the second arc the quality of the art degrades significantly (bar one female character who the artist seems to have spent too much time on) and the story telling becomes incoherent, not just muddled, there were sentences in the second arc I genuinely couldn’t read.
This was my first interaction with Thanos outside of the MCU and I really enjoyed him as a character. There’s great balance required in writing a character who’s fun to be around and can have you for rooting for him but that you know would be the world’s biggest bastard if he was opposite you. Really well crafted.
This was my first interaction with Thanos outside of the MCU and I really enjoyed him as a character. There’s great balance required in writing a character who’s fun to be around and can have you for rooting for him but that you know would be the world’s biggest bastard if he was opposite you. Really well crafted.
I liked the first part of this run quite a bit. The dialogue is completely over-the-top in the way that only comic book supervillains can speak, but I was well entertained by the back and forth between Thanos and Galactus. The back half I found far less interesting. Too many references to characters and events I didn’t know, too many bizarre dialects to follow the plot. Like a number of other readers, I’ll be spring-boarding off of this collection into the Annihilation story next.
The first arc in this 12 issue series was really friggen good! Thanos is trying to atone for his past sins by helping some people and their planet that he once fucked over. Shenanigans ensue and things kinda get all crazy and somehow we find ourselves in a brawl with Galactus.
I love me some Galactus.
It's a great arc and Jim Starlin, as always, kills it with his cosmic hocus-pocus.
In the 2nd arc, the one by Keith Giffen, Thanos goes on a pilgrimage to some crazy prison on the edge of...everything...and contemplates his relationship with Lady Death. There's also a lot of broken English that you have to read and it's kinda frustrating to get through.
Overall though it was a fun book, really, the only reason I read this in the first place is that I am kicking off a Marvel Cosmic deep dive and the Annihilation storyline is a box I wanted to be checked sooner than later...and this book kinda precedes that whole ruckus...so you know...It's a journey.
I love me some Galactus.
It's a great arc and Jim Starlin, as always, kills it with his cosmic hocus-pocus.
In the 2nd arc, the one by Keith Giffen, Thanos goes on a pilgrimage to some crazy prison on the edge of...everything...and contemplates his relationship with Lady Death. There's also a lot of broken English that you have to read and it's kinda frustrating to get through.
Overall though it was a fun book, really, the only reason I read this in the first place is that I am kicking off a Marvel Cosmic deep dive and the Annihilation storyline is a box I wanted to be checked sooner than later...and this book kinda precedes that whole ruckus...so you know...It's a journey.