Thanos Imperative #6

[sherkahn]

CosmicBookNews has the preview of the conclusion to the Thanos Imperative, and possibly a close to this chapter in the Marvel Cosmic stories.

Oh yeah, Spoilers ahoy.





Wish granted.

Comments

[combatsoup]

hey, marvel? I have to pay 3.99 for a comic, could you at least have your artist draw each individual panel?

[thatnickguy]

Oh, come on. That's a stylistic choice that's been used in multiple comics. Invincible does it so much that it made a meta-joke about it early in its run.

The reason for the similar panels is to showcase the materialization of the sword, which works well in this context.

[nezchan]

...or it would if the repeated panels weren't anatomically bizarre.

[icon_uk]

In what way bizarre (particularly)?

[nezchan]

There are some strange things going on with his face, mostly with his chin extending way down for some reason, and the position of his hand seems to require the hilt of the sword not line up with the blade.

His whole face looks really flabby in general.

[icon_uk]

Not seeing a problem with the chin, or the face in general to be honest, it doesn't look flabby so much as showing the lines that tend to appear on faces when the mouth opens wide like that.

Also not seeing a problem with the sword either, it starts to materialise beyond his hand, and he reaches out and grabs it as it forms.

[nezchan]

My issue with the hand is if you take the thickness of it into account, what it's holding isn't lined up with the blade we see.

The thing here is that any little flaw will be magnified when the image is repeated like this, since the eye is now dwelling on it. It also seems oddly forced, and given how much dialogue he gives during those four panels, it seems really odd that his face would be identical in them all.

[sherkahn]

Ok, I will say it if no one will.

It's an ugly "O" face, the kind most sport-nut alpha males make when the moment of truth arrives and they refer to the bliss in sports terms.


TOUCHDOWN!

KICK IS GOOD!

GOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLL!

[icon_uk]

Well, yes, but that's sort of the face I'd expect of someone like him in this situation. He is, after all, achieving the ultimate happy for the big boss avatar of the Cthulhuverse....