• Thanos, depowered.
• Thane, host of the Phoenix Force.
• Round Two!
• RIP Thanos?
Parental Advisory
Somehow, I've never come across Germn Peralta's art before this Thanos ongoing series, but I'll be keeping an eye out for his work from now on. Peralta's pages make Thanos feel like an event book, as it should when the title character is fighting his Phoenix-empowered son, Thane. Read Full Review
Solid issue with nothing considerably wrong with it. Just the shortchanged feeling and lack of any kind of cliffhanger. The issue gives you one heck of a fight with some good trash talk. Thanos is a good book in a way it has no right to be. You shouldn't be rooting for either Thanos or Thane considering they're “bad guys!” Yet Lemire tricks you perfectly into not just enjoying the story. But considering how you may feel about the characters, Lemire makes you care who's gonna win. Despite the fact one of them will try to destroy the universe no matter the outcome. They're “bad guys,” they're “villains,” and yet it's so much fun. In the past years where we've dealt with hero versus hero over moral and ethical reasons. Reading about villain versus villain for more straight forward reasons seems to be a lot more enjoyable. Read Full Review
Thanos is the only book with limited dialogue that just kills it every time. The art has been wonderful and this book has been a blast. Lemire's run ends next issue so we will finally get to see the conclusion to his masterpiece.
It's really short which does take away from it's score. If this book was $2.99, the score would be 8.5.
But it's short in a good way. It's all action and very little dialogue. It's a heavyweight fight from start to finish and it was just round 1. It helps that the art of the action scene's were fantastic. It's definitely worth a second glance through just to appreciate all of the punches, knees and throws of the fight again. Thanos continues to be one of the most consistently good books in Marvel Now 2.0 libraries and that looks to carry on into Legacy.
Thanos and Thane fight so hard they destroy a planet. It's capably illustrated by Germán Peralta, but Jeff Lemire's script is so lazy that there's really no way or reason to summarize this resolution-free fight scene with more than one sentence. Mr. Peralta's visuals deserve more memorable words.
Completely and utterly skippable