THANOS RISING #1

Review by: DavidClark

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Story by Jason Aaron
Art by Simone Bianchi
Cover by Simone Bianchi, Marko Djurdjevic, & Skottie Young

Size: 0 pages
Price: 3.99

Didn’t dig it. At all.

Why do this? Why the need to EXPLAIN everything about Thanos and WHY he is who he is?

I know, it’s an origin story it’s supposed to tell THIS story, but man, what a clunker for me.

Thanos as a kid? Just did not scan.

Plus, the story on its own merits was chock full of cliches.

Story: 2 - Average
Art: 3 - Good
 

Comments

  1. Avatar photo Conor Kilpatrick">Conor Kilpatrick (@cskilpatrick) says:
    April 12, 2013 at 9:02 pm

    Marvel did this for the same reason they did WOLVERINE: ORIGINS–they wanted to take ownership over the origin of their character before it was established by Hollywood.

    • Avatar photo DavidClark says:
      April 12, 2013 at 9:34 pm

      I get it, but jeez, this was not good IMHO.

    • Avatar photo IthoSapien says:
      April 12, 2013 at 10:07 pm

      “–they wanted to take ownership over the origin of their character before it was established by Hollywood.”

      I find that origin point kinda ironic since that Wolverine movie mostly ignored the book, his origin, and botched a ton of X-Men mythology. Why the heck would a movie have to explain Thanos childhood? Doesn’t seem revelant.

  2. Avatar photo BronxRonin says:
    April 12, 2013 at 10:06 pm

    I know it was “just” the first issue…but I feel so jipped. What a waste of my money.

  3. Avatar photo bub64882 says:
    April 15, 2013 at 7:52 pm

    I don’t particularly WANT to be sympathetic to a death-worshipping space god, and therein lies my problem here. Magento, Doom, hell even Batroc, you want them to win one once in a while. But Thanos? I don’t want to see his evil grin and his desire to kill everything and feel even a hint of “oh he was bullied at school. Can someone give him a hug?”. I just want to watch Thor smash him in the face with a hammer over and over and smile about it. So yeah, kinda thinking I won’t pick up the rest of the series.

    I felt the art was pretty good though. I’d have given it a 4.

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