The Thanos Imperative!

Originally posted by AlmightyKfish
Well I'll point out he had recovered lots and lots of strength "He's recovered so much strength he's impossible to mindlock".

But also, why is this such a big deal? Unless you don't realise what Anti Matter actually does, you'd understand that most characters under Skyfather could be defeated from having an Anti Matter bomb impaled into their chest.

+ It's one low showing, hardly the end of the known universe.

IIRC 616 reed used an anti-matter gun from his closet to 1 shot an alternate universe celestial. Or maybe it wasn't anti-matter....I forget. some trinket.

Originally posted by guy222
drax got the best of thanos again

it happens

that's his destiny

next issue, should b a huge battle

yup, always the best of thanos at the worst of times. thought they would have remembered that only mentally challenged Drax can work with Thanos...not this "intelligent" annihilation-era drax.

i wonder if the many angled ones did to cancerverse surfer the same thing they did to cancerverse Galactus. Cancer Surfer vs. Thanos could it happen?

shouldn't we wait and see the effect of the bomb before concluding Thanos is dead?

at the moment he just seems bright blue to me. dead? i don't know...

Originally posted by Warlord
shouldn't we wait and see the effect of the bomb before concluding Thanos is dead?

at the moment he just seems bright blue to me. dead? i don't know...

agreed

Originally posted by Warlord
shouldn't we wait and see the effect of the bomb before concluding Thanos is dead?

at the moment he just seems bright blue to me. dead? i don't know...

He's not dead man. There's no death in that universe. Was he killed? perhaps. Killed like how the GotG "killed" the Defenders of the Realm before they just revived and Thanos had to perma-kill them. Thanos is the avatar of Death...Drax isn't. In fact I vaguelly recall reading in one of the earlier GotG books that Drax was the avatar of life, ironically.

Time for an Anti-Man vs Thanos thread??

But yeah, I'm either expecting that with no death in that universe he just gets back up again. Either that, or it's just one of those fakeout endings where "OMG!!! He's dead!" then next issue starts with "No wait, he's still alive - and he's angry!".

And just because it was an antimatter attack is nothing to get excited about. Sure it's the most efficient release of energy and orders of magnitude more than chemical and nuclear energy, but the energy released depends on the amount and who knows how much was actually contained inside the bomb? - probably not that much given it was a hand-held device and the effect was very localized - and a lot of the energy goes into neutrinos which won't do anything to anyone. A blast from Galactus would generate more destructive energy than an amount of antimatter that small, and Thanos has already survived that (barely, and with heavy shielding).

Dead until proven otherwise biscuits

Hahaha. Kurupt is raging.

Being in this Universe doesn't affect his power level or durability from what I've seen. It's just harder on him mentally.

Isn't Thanos supposed to be close or at full power?

I really had fun with this issue.

Yeah it's highly unlikely that the writers would have had Drax say "Disintegration. Kill confirmed" if that attack was something Thanos could just shrug off. But like I said earlier, since Death is non-existent in the Cancerverse, Thanos will undoubtedly be 'resurrected' very shortly. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if we find out that he let Drax hill him, just to test the no Death theory..

What's teh big deal?

Originally posted by Galan007
Yeah it's highly unlikely that the writers would have had Drax say "Disintegration. Kill confirmed" if that attack was something Thanos could just shrug off. But like I said earlier, since Death is non-existent in the Cancerverse, Thanos will undoubtedly be 'resurrected' very shortly. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if we find out that he let Drax hill him, just to test the no Death theory..

What's teh big deal?

Or maybe it's a clone!

Still, it certainly does open the doors for characters with Anti-Matter manipulating abilities to beat Thanos.

The Thanos camp is sensitive when it comes to their craggy chin idol. God forbid he isn't shown with Skyfather level and beyond durability.

Originally posted by Rage.Of.Olympus
Or maybe it's a clone!

Still, it certainly does open the doors for characters with Anti-Matter manipulating abilities to beat Thanos.

The Thanos camp is sensitive when it comes to their craggy chin idol. God forbid he isn't shown with Skyfather level and beyond durability.

it didn't bother me initially but it really bothers me now how disproportionately large thanos is drawn. he looks fatter than the hulk next to drax.

and let me reiterate my disappointment in thanos and drax going to their pre-annihilaiton costumes. the black combat pants and red tatoos were def a good look for drax, while the white roman-esque toga was def, def a good look for thanos.

Well people do think others are killed all the ime and comment on that being the case, yet it's not the case. I still see him in the scans, just all lite up. Regardless he's weakened and in a cancerverse that is negatively effecting in one way for certain, and probably a variety.

1. He already two shot drax with ease and made all the GOTG run for their lives
2. Killed billions of The Universal Church
3. One shot and killed Phyla
4. Killed beings that nobody else could kill.

He knocked out Drax off panel, surely a cheap shot. 😖hifty:

Something is missing from this series that's preventing it from having an epic feel. It's almost as if DnA are giving us the cliffnotes version of a much larger intended story.

Originally posted by Galan007
Yeah it's highly unlikely that the writers would have had Drax say "Disintegration. Kill confirmed" if that attack was something Thanos could just shrug off. But like I said earlier, since Death is non-existent in the Cancerverse, Thanos will undoubtedly be 'resurrected' very shortly. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if we find out that he let Drax hill him, just to test the no Death theory..

What's teh big deal?

I agree, but still Drax is a dumb a$$ 😉 . Can't this man use common sense once in awhile, hell even Savage Hulk has used some common sense😬.

Prime telling those byatches to shut the hell up lol!

Originally posted by dmills
Something is missing from this series that's preventing it from having an epic feel. It's almost as if DnA are giving us the cliffnotes version of a much larger intended story.

Fear. Collateral damage. A sense of urgency. The writing is average. It's piss poor compared to Annihilation. Back in Annihilation when Daedalus 5 was about to get wiped out by the Galactus Gun, the Alliance panic and ran like hell knowing that planet was lost. The dialogue has no emotional feel to it and the art is stiff. It doesn't add anything to writing. When Aegis was destroyed, the should've been panels of fear in Nova's eyes. A shocking reaction from the Kree, Shi'ar, Inhumans, and the other heroes at her death to show how significant it was. An abstract/cosmic god died; everyone should've freaked the hell out. Tears should've been running down Crystal and Medusa's eyes at that sight. Blastaar should've pissed his pants. Ignition had great art that expressed the emotions of the characters. Everyone in the current book though looks like they've all had botox injections.

DnA comes up with great premises but the lack the ability to bring urgency to a story to have that epic feel to it.

Yeah, but to piss your pants at any impossible scenario after surviving two or three would need serious suspension in disbelief. Everyone and their mother knows they are fighting exactly the kind of fight they were breed to fight, Annihilation came out of nowhere, it was a tragedy, an explosion, a before and after; right now cosmic heroes have been kept on their toes for months, they have their game faces on, no matter what happens. (Heck, even Nova held together after losing Namorita)

Both of you make excellent points. But you must admit Bentley that the story (so far) and art are lacking. This is a far cry from Annihilation. Hell it's even a far cry from Conquest.

For some reason I get the feeling that DnA aren't being allowed additional time and/or resources to flesh this story out. It seems like we've been seeing a series of the hot clips from an epic movie.