The Silver Surfer #35

[cyberghostface]

"I consider [Thanos] to be an anti-hero…because he’s been the good guy as often as he’s been the bad guy in the stories. So I don’t consider him a villain. But because he’s not in that hero category I always found him more fascinating to write. I didn’t have to get restricted on where he would go and how he would react to things. I could make him not as appealing as I would have to make him if he were a hero. He could go off on his own little dark ways and it would still make perfect sense." -- Jim Starlin

Comments

[scorntx]

You complain about the humans, Thanos. You complain about the salarians, but how do you feel about all those krogan and asari? Or the drell? The hanar? Heck, the batarians?


Sometimes I do wonder if Starlin just cannot help himself.
Like, he'll try to write a story about something, and without even noticing, it suddenly becomes all about Thanos.
(Hey, not judging. It happens. Sometimes you try not to write about someone because you're maybe using them too much instead of other characters, but they're the only ones you have ideas about...
Just don't think that's Starlin's problem.)


And poor Norrin. So enraptured by how shiny and brilliant and wonderful Thanos is, he can't even make a rational counterargument.

[mazway_75]

Starlin does tend to be a bit...over-protective of Thanos when he writes him.

Never forget that mini-series where it's revealed that Thanos in just about every non-Starlin story that has him as a murderous tyrant is some sort of "flawed clone" the real Thanos dismisses. That's even worse than "It was a Doombot."

[remial]

to quote someone from twitter (which I saw on imgur) "Why do they need to make another Avengers movie? Thanos already saved the universe by killing half the population"

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Huh... is this what the movie drew upon for Thanos' motivation?

I dig it. Granted, they still left the Death angle out, but still.

[starwolf_oakley]

In the MCU, Titan was ruined by overpopulation. Killing one half of Titan was Thanos' idea, but he was voted down. So, Thanos is now killing half of every planet he comes across in a weird "I'll show them all" thing.

Here it seems to be "Death told me to."

[joetuss]

Why didn't MCU Thanos use the gauntlet to create infinite resources?

[astrakhan42]

It would've been impractical for the movies but I really do love the eyeless Ron Lim/George Perez design.

[bruinsfan]

Hmmm, at that point in comics history should Thanos have been able to ignore the Silver Surfer as a threat? In more recent years as an unkillable incarnation of Death I could see it, but back then I thought he was just about on an even playing field with the Surfer (or Thor).