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Thanos Rising (2013)

by Jason Aaron(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0785184007 (ISBN13: 9780785184003)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Marvel

review 1: Even given Thanos's previously established history, the amount and explicity of violence is surprising and disturbing. For starters, early in the story Thanos is shown performing a vivisection on-panel.The art for the most part is good, but if you took a drink for every time a woman appears in her underwear, you'd die of alcohol poisoning, and not only to all the women have the exact same body type but apparently frilly lingerie is a universal staple. Most of these half-naked women are shown having violence inflicted against them, including the corpse of an eviscerated woman with her bare breasts fully visible. Not really sure how the hell that made it into print.I like Jason Aaron but the story is full of evil child/serial killer cliches. There's also a part where pirates... more talk about feeding people to "space sharks", so... yeah.I'm used to aliens in sci-fi all being humans with weird foreheads and Skittles-colored skin, but the idea that all species across multiple galaxies can interbreed stretch credulity a little too far. (There's also this weird error where the narration states that all Thanos' children look like their mothers, but the art has them all identical to him.)It's also really annoying how the book changes Thanos' history in some pretty big ways. Thanos' brother Starfox is mentioned once briefly but never actually shows up. Also, the comic has Thanos completely destroy Titan and kill everyone but his father but the society has shown up perfectly fine in other comics set after this destruction would have taken place. The identity of the mysterious woman as Death is presented as a twist but is pretty obvious if you're already familiar with Thanos. The comic also heavily implies that she is a figment of Thanos' imagination, where other comics have shown she is clearly real. (There's also the question of how Thanos knew about the cave of man-eating iguanas if she is imaginary.)Death is also rather chatty here, where she's usually completely silent, and the end with Death begging for Thanos' acknowledgement while he ignores her (a la A Beautiful Mind) also drastically contradicts previous comics.Very disappointing. Hopefully it will just be ignored heading forward.
review 2: I'm a big fan of Jason Aaron, and Thanos has been my favorite Marvel villain for a long time, but this book pretty much exemplifies everything I hate about modern storytelling. Everything needs to be explained, and there can be no mystery surrounding an character. Thanos can't simply be a cosmically-powered genocidal madman, rather we need to know WHY he became a cosmically-powered genocidal madman. Thus, we get something like this, which feels like the superhero equivalent to Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween, in which Thanos just becomes a disturbed little boy who talks to imaginary friends and cuts up lizards. No thanks. I'll stick to stuff like Infinity Gaunlet, which is still the best Thanos story ever produced, and just pretend that I didn't read this. less

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