|
|
Post by Icctrombone on Apr 28, 2016 4:45:34 GMT -5
I've got to agree with Kurt. I read it incidentally because pieces of it kept popping up in a number of titles I enjoyed. Starlin's art is solid throughout, naturally, but I found the story itself overwrought and unrewarding. The fact that it was shoe-horned in to various disparate books like an unwanted guest gave me the impression that the only person who demanded the story be told was Starlin, as opposed to the sweeping, epic saga I'm sure he intended. And, of course he's been ostensibly telling the story again and again for forty years. But yeah, the art was really nice. Booooooooooo |
|
|
|
Post by Icctrombone on Apr 28, 2016 4:50:44 GMT -5
The closest to all in one already out there isone that collects more of the early material- The Avengers vs. Thanos trade which has Iron Man 55, Captain Marvel 25-33, Marvel Feature 12, Daredevil 105-107, Avengers 125, Warlock 9-11, and 15, Avengers Annual 7, Marvel Two in One Annual 2 and the back up from Logan's Run 6. It gets a lot of flack because it skips Warlock 10-14, but those weren't Avengers vs. Thanos type issues-the theme of the book. The flack is justified. That book is an illegible mess of stories. Do not buy this. Wait! If it skips Warlock 10 and 11 then it passes the solution of the Magus saga which has Thanos featured prominently. Issues 12-14 have nothing to add. Issue 15 has some interlude that involves Thanos. They have an epic collection. I think this is the book you're referencing. That's the one to get because it's in full color. |
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2016 5:55:36 GMT -5
The flack is justified. That book is an illegible mess of stories. Do not buy this. Wait! If it skips Warlock 10 and 11 then it passes the solution of the Magus saga which has Thanos featured prominently. Issues 12-14 have nothing to add. Issue 15 has some interlude that involves Thanos. They have an epic collection. I think this is the book you're referencing. That's the one to get because it's in full color. It has 9-11, skips 12-14 and has 15. -M |
|
|
|
Post by Reptisaurus! on Apr 28, 2016 16:54:56 GMT -5
I'll also stick up for the pre-Starlin Captain Marvel stuff - with Roy Thomas, Gene Colan, Gil Kane, Arnold Drake, and Don Heck's best superhero work ever! - as definitely worth reading. I'm actually coming at this from the absolute backwards approach. Probably ten years ago I stumbled upon the early Captain Marvel of the Kree issues, picked them up out of mild curiosity, and really enjoyed them. I got the first ten appearances and always meant to go back for more but, being a child of the 1980s, I had absolutely no grasp of the significance the character's later iteration holds in comic book history today. Here I'd thought I'd stumbled upon some long forgotten character. Yeah, I own maybe 4 issues of Captain Marvel (and all his team-up apperances!) but I just recently read the rest of it. I was expecting a fairly generic character-created-to-fill-a-name 'till Starlin came aboard, but it's actually quite good. Marvel was NOT at it's peak between '68 and '71, and these are some of the strongest books from that period. |
|
|
|
Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 28, 2016 20:13:56 GMT -5
Obviously I do not agree with the naysayers. I reread through the entire thing just last year and at its best, it's just awesome. Easily among my half dozen favorite comic series. And Avengers annual 7 remains one of the best single issues I have ever read. Darn right!!! |
|
|
|
Post by coke & comics on Apr 29, 2016 2:07:20 GMT -5
The flack is justified. That book is an illegible mess of stories. Do not buy this. Wait! If it skips Warlock 10 and 11 then it passes the solution of the Magus saga which has Thanos featured prominently. Issues 12-14 have nothing to add. Issue 15 has some interlude that involves Thanos. They have an epic collection. I think this is the book you're referencing. That's the one to get because it's in full color. It has precisely those issues which contain Thanos. It does have the ending of the Magus Saga, but not the beginning. This makes no sense. |
|
|
|
Post by Icctrombone on Apr 29, 2016 3:19:03 GMT -5
Wait! If it skips Warlock 10 and 11 then it passes the solution of the Magus saga which has Thanos featured prominently. Issues 12-14 have nothing to add. Issue 15 has some interlude that involves Thanos. They have an epic collection. I think this is the book you're referencing. That's the one to get because it's in full color. It has precisely those issues which contain Thanos. It does have the ending of the Magus Saga, but not the beginning. This makes no sense. Oh, Now I see what you're saying. It lacked Strange Tales 178-181. That is the Magus story but Thanos didn't appear until Issue #9 of the Warlock series. I'm guessing that they didn't want to include the 80 or so pages of those issues. Issues 12-14 of the Warlock series didn't have an appearance by Thanos, though. |
|
|
|
Post by Cei-U! on Apr 29, 2016 13:28:17 GMT -5
This seems like an appropriate place to mention that I just picked up Vol. 2 of The Essential Captain Marvel which contains (wait for it) the Thanos Saga.
Cei-U!
I summon the contrarian!
|
|
|
|
Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 29, 2016 13:50:09 GMT -5
This seems like an appropriate place to mention that I just picked up Vol. 2 of The Essential Captain Marvel which contains (wait for it) the Thanos Saga. Cei-U! I summon the contrarian! |
|
|
|
Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 29, 2016 13:54:28 GMT -5
This seems like an appropriate place to mention that I just picked up Vol. 2 of The Essential Captain Marvel which contains (wait for it) the Thanos Saga. Cei-U! I summon the contrarian! Lol ... that should be on every comic or TPB he's in, like a pack of cigarettes. |
|
|
|
Post by String on Apr 29, 2016 17:35:47 GMT -5
My brother is a die-hard Thanos and Mar-Vell fan (as well as a fan of Marvel cosmic in general). Iron Man #55 is probably one of the very few issues of Iron Man that he owns because of Thanos' first appearance.
|
|
|
|
Post by coke & comics on Apr 30, 2016 1:14:40 GMT -5
This seems like an appropriate place to mention that I just picked up Vol. 2 of The Essential Captain Marvel which contains (wait for it) the Thanos Saga. Cei-U! I summon the contrarian! Well, the beginning of it at least. |
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2016 1:17:54 GMT -5
Of course my first thought on seeing this thread title, before reading Shax's actual post was: Best way to read it-the same way Starlin wrote it-in an altered state of consciousness (or SSC i.e. shamanic state of consciousness for those who want to legitimize it in anthropological terms)  -M |
|
|
|
Post by Icctrombone on May 1, 2016 7:42:06 GMT -5
Shax, you're going to love Thanos' intro to the Magus saga  |
|
