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Whoa.
As far as I’m aware, Thanos: Son of Titan written by Joe Keatinge and drawn by Richard Elson, was in the bag, as in mostly finished. It was actually the most interesting book Marvel had at the SDCC this year. The solicitations for it had actually just arrived at comics shops across the country.
And now they’ve spiked it. It’s totally canceled, and it won’t be resolicited. Keatinge and Elson have been reassigned to Spidey and apparently we must now never speak of this again.
So what the hell happened? Some are theorizing that Marvel became gun-shy ever since Jim Starlin got pretty upset over not seeing a nickel from Thanos in The Avengers, but come on, this is Marvel. They treat their former creative personnel like dog turds. Unless Starlin has one hell of a compelling legal case, that wouldn’t even have slowed them down and Starlin has publicly said he has no interest in taking Marvel to court over this.
Marvel did confirm that “plans have changed” regarding Thanos. I guess we’ll just have to see. Maybe he’ll be getting his own cartoon or something.
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I learned something, I never knew Jim Starlin created Thanos. I thought it was another one of those Kirby productions.
Well this is unfortunate.
No, Kirby was over at DC creating Darkseid for Starlin to swipe, I believe.
I’m guessing it was too far from whatever they’re doing with Guardians of the Galaxy that will tie in to Avengers 2 which will precursor the GotG movie.
Chances are someone at the top woke up in the middle of the night with an epiphany. “Stop the presses! I’ve decided Rocket Racoon will be the secret master behind the universe. But that goes against what Thanos reveals, so kill that series.”