Eternals: Thanos Rises #1 - "Sins of the Sons"

[laughing_tree]

There’s a lot here. It’s epic, sure, but it’s just a deeply sad comic. I said to Dustin in the script that this is trying to evoke a little of Kirby’s THE PACT over in New Gods. We go to a different place, but that’s the timbre. Dustin just went there – what he does in the war sequences is startling, but what he does with the emotional climax is something else. It’s bleak. Bleak, bleak, bleakity-bleak. -- Kieron Gillen

Comments

[dan_ingram]

So what exactly is exclusion? Just being left as energy? In a jail cell?

[aperturedreams]

I don't think they're left as energy as the narration implies they can die...I think they're just left there, well, eternally.

[cdamascus]

The most interesting thing to me about this issue is that like Aaron's Thanos Rising, Thanos' brother Eros does not seem to exist at all in the narrative, though his existence is indirectly acknowledged via Sui-san suggesting his name for Thanos. It raises the question, if Thanos was the only actual child of Sui-san and Mentor, then who was Eros, actually? Where did he come from? I feel like Gillen may be intentionally setting those questions up to be answered later.

[silverhammerman]

Oh that's a good point, and if there's anyone who can make Eros interesting it's gonna be Gillen, since circa WicDiv he's already got ample experience writing scummy, sensual, yet not actively malevolent god-like characters.

[dan_ingram]

They name dropped Eros in this scan. He just doesn't count towards Mentor's karma, lol

[cainofdreaming]

So, no more Dione?