Thanos Rising #4

Thanos Rising #4 where once again I seem to have missed issues in this series.  The story is both fascinating yet horrifying at the same time.  Thanos has gone through his killing spree his genocide against the universe.  He selects his victim worlds and civilizations totally at random.  All because as it turns out his girlfriend; his only friend from childhood was not real.  His only friend was Death or his madness if you prefer to see it that way.  It is almost enough for the reader to feel sorry for the villain.  But Thanos has always been the villain in the Marvel Universe fighting the Heroes for so many years so there was no real way he would be anything but a destroyer.  Still a good story and I will need to track down the compilation once it is available.

Thanos Rising #1

Thanos Rising #1 was very interesting.  It starts with Thanos returning to the moon Titan where he was born.  He is there to visit his mother’s grave and to remember his own past.  This is a past that we get to see for ourselves.  We get to see his birth and eventual rejection by his mother Sui-San. Thanos is a funny looking child for an Eternal they even call him a mutant and it does not faze him.  He even makes friends at school and eventually finds a girl whom likes him.  The girl encourages Thanos to seek revenge on the creatures (they look like iguanas) that ate his friends after those friends were trapped in a cave-in.  I was reluctant to buy this comic as I feared it would just be Thanos silliness but instead this first issue is rather laidback and deliberate in the telling of Thoanos’s early life.  I will try to keep up with future issues.