There are a lot of contentious debates between people who aren’t really listening to each other in “The One Who Will Save Us All.” How to save the world, how to do the right thing...even whether or not to high five gets discussed. But these people are in their own heads—so much so, two of them come to blows.
[Warning: This story contains major spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War.]
We’re on-the-record fans here of screenwriter and comedian Demi Adejuyigbe, who’s previously graced the pages of Great Job, Internet with a number of subversively excellent comedy songs, ranging from an Animaniacs-styled takedown of the Trump administration’s constant staffing woes, to an unofficially awesome Lando rap
In Avengers: Infinity War, the longest, priciest, and most-crowded crowd-pleaser ever to roll off the Marvel Studios assembly line, Earth’s mightiest heroes face their most daunting challenge yet: an intergalactic nihilist whose dearest dream is to cleave the entire population of the universe in half. The good news is…
Thanos is about to wreak havoc on the Marvel Cinematic Universe when Avengers: Infinity War hits theaters on April 27, and readers interested in learning more about the mad Titan should seek out the current run on Thanos, which wraps up with next week’s issue #18. Writer Donny Cates, artist Geoff Shaw, and colorist…
Whether or not the total count actually approaches 70, Avengers: Infinity War features an impressive number of characters. For their third Marvel movie, Anthony and Joe Russo have wrangled all the Avengers we’ve seen in solo outings, as well as the ones who fought in Civil War, plus a ragtag group of intergalactic…
It’s a generally understood truism of storytelling that every villain is a hero of their own tale. Marvel’s films have certainly benefited from this lesson; characters like The Avengers’ Loki and Black Panther’s Killmonger have both thrived mightily from the sympathy with which their characters’ agendas are treated in…
Every two weeks, Big Issues focuses on newly released comic books of significance. This week, they are Doctor Strange #384 and Thanos #15. Written by Donny Cates (God Country, Redneck) with art by Gabriel Hernandez Walta (Magneto, The Vision) and Geoff Shaw (Buzzkill, God Country) and colors by Jordie Bellaire (Magneto…
Back when it was first announced the third and fourth Avengers movies would be called Infinity War parts one and two, all was calm, and we understood that Marvel had a plan. But as they say, if you want to make God laugh, plan to see two Infinity War films.
Thanos has been a malevolent force in Marvel comics for almost 45 years, and he’s also (currently) the biggest threat in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This is a guy so powerful, he’s poised to take on the Avengers for the fun of it in Infinity War. His comics backstory includes being born with the Deviants gene and…
Avengers: Too Many Characters (just kidding!) dropped its first trailer this morning, and the biggest takeaway (aside from Star-Lord’s little ’stache) has to be the wreckage of ultra-villain Thanos, who we’ve seen do little else aside from float through space for three dozen movies now. Though his size and knockout…
Look, we get it: internet movie trailer culture is a problem for big film studios, since they’d presumably like to maintain at least a little bit of mystery around their high-profile films. Not to mention rewarding fans who wait in line—sometimes extremely long lines—in order to get into panels at events like Disney’s…
Who he is: Thanos, a.k.a. The Dark Lord, a.k.a. The Mad Titan
Wakanda is experiencing a well deserved resurgence in interest. Between excitement for the Black Panther movie and the good press around Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze’s comic, it’s a smart move for Marvel to expand the franchise. It’s even smarter to recruit Roxane Gay to helm a new title in keeping with…
As Thanos, Josh Brolin has one of the sweetest gigs in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. His character is mostly computer-generated, he’s only ever had a handful of lines, he has a cool rocket chair in Guardians Of The Galaxy, and he still gets to be the biggest villain in the whole universe. However, Avengers: Infinity…
It would be entirely possible for a fairly dedicated fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to still be confused about the six Infinity Stones and the Infinity Gauntlet they fit into. After all, Marvel has paid far more attention to Chris Hemsworth’s abs than it has to these six MacGuffins and their larger MacGuffin…
So we’ve established that Marvel knows it has a problem with female representation in its superhero movies, and it’s probably going to make great strides in fixing that problem as soon as it possibly can. But first, check out this picture of Josh Brolin as Thanos! Ooh! Aah! Sorry, what important issue were we talking…
Superhero comic books descend from the pulps. That is, they are a product of a massive surge in genre fiction produced in the early decades of the 20th century. Look at your favorite superheroes today, and you can still see the traces of this lineage. It’s not as if fantasy, science-fiction, or detective stories…
Marvel has a Thanos problem, and it’s a problem of its own making.
