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[Comic Book Review] "Thanos: The Infinity Revelation" Massively Reinvents The Mad Titan -
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Oy.

Thanos will always be alluring in a way most can’t quite explain, and nobody seems to draw him like Jim Starlin, it’s just a shame many have written him better.
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Oh man...

I guess this guy isn't as familiar with the character as he likes to make us think he is. He's right that Starlin's writing is different. There's a lot of exposition, because that's how comics were written back in the day. It can be somewhat cumbersome if you weren't reading comics in the 80's and 90's, but... there is NO ONE who has ever even COME CLOSE to writing Thanos as well as Starlin.
 
He had to be helped to the stage @ SDCC. Very sad. It would appear he had a stroke but nothing I have read has come right out and confirmed. Deterioration or not...the man is responsible for the single greatest take on an established icon and you can make an argument that he saved the entire comic industry. He gets a pass for anything else for Dark Knight alone.
 
jerseydevil said:
He had to be helped to the stage @ SDCC. Very sad. It would appear he had a stroke but nothing I have read has come right out and confirmed. Deterioration or not...the man is responsible for the single greatest take on an established icon and you can make an argument that he saved the entire comic industry. He gets a pass for anything else for Dark Knight alone.
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I will ALWAYS hold a place for him in my heart for who he was and what he's done.

Elektra: Assassin is still my favorite mini-series ever. I re-read it often.
 
Truth be told, I kinda dig The Spirit. It's a GREAT LOOKING piece of wtf curiousity. Sam Jackson swinging for the fences in the scene chewing department.
 
adgy-san said:
Oy.



Oh man...

I guess this guy isn't as familiar with the character as he likes to make us think he is. He's right that Starlin's writing is different. There's a lot of exposition, because that's how comics were written back in the day. It can be somewhat cumbersome if you weren't reading comics in the 80's and 90's, but... there is NO ONE who has ever even COME CLOSE to writing Thanos as well as Starlin.
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I saw Starlin on PBS the other day, haha. They had a show on the Legend of Gilgamesh and Starlin talked about how one of his characters was based on him :)

I was re-reading The Dark Phoenix Saga recently and forgot how verbose Claremont was, but in reality, a lot of comic book writers of that era wrote that way.


jerseydevil said:
WHAT do you do all day??????
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Bah! I can take a hint.

*runs away crying*
 
orpheus said:
I saw Starlin on PBS the other day, haha. They had a show on the Legend of Gilgamesh and Starlin talked about how one of his characters was based on him :)
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Damn, really? I'll have to search for that.

He actually even wrote a mini called Gilgamesh II.

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Been a long time since I read it, but I know I still have it somewhere.

I was re-reading The Dark Phoenix Saga recently and forgot how verbose Claremont was, but in reality, a lot of comic book writers of that era wrote that way.
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Yep. Sometimes I have to kind of force myself to read all of the words. I have a tendency to start skimming it, especially if I've already read the story a dozen times.

Bah! I can take a hint.

*runs away crying*
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As long as you don't bring up that crap about Darkseid, you're ok by me, Orph. :)
 
'Not A Lot Of Happy' But 'The Best That I Am Capable Of' - Garth Ennis At Baltimore Comic Con On Crossed, War Stories, Caliban, Red Team And More - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movie, TV News

Ennis said that Avatar Press is reprinting the old DC War Stories in two trade paperbacks. Avatar are also now doing the new War Stories following the Battlefields format. He feels with all this in print, we have the chance to really see the “best that I am capable of”, Ennis said. Rybant said there’s not “a lot of happy”, but there is always humor, even in his war stories.
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A couple of those DC 'War Stories' issues really should be considered among the best work of his career. All of them are pretty great, though.

He finds the Punisher “an incredibly simple character which is possibly why Marvel have messed him up so much”, like putting him in space, making him a demon-hunter and the like.
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Agree, although the space thing was tongue-in-cheek.
 
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