The Thanos Imperative!

Parts of the story remind me of one of the Babylon 5 movies from years ago, Thirdspace.

WOW!!

According to the issue #6 preview

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it looks like Shuma Gorath is the villain behind all the craziness

seems interesting.

Originally posted by Power Cosmic II
WOW!!

According to the issue #6 preview

Spoiler:
it looks like Shuma Gorath is the villain behind all the craziness

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=6891&disp=table

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to be honest Mar Vel just utters the name Shumma Gorath. It doesn't mean it is he who is responsible. He also speaks the name of Nyarlathotep which IIRC is a Lovecraft entity. We will see. it should be interesting

Originally posted by Power Cosmic II
WOW!!

According to the issue #6 preview

Spoiler:
it looks like Shuma Gorath is the villain behind all the craziness

Originally posted by Warlord
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=6891&disp=table

Spoiler:
to be honest Mar Vel just utters the name Shumma Gorath. It doesn't mean it is he who is responsible. He also speaks the name of Nyarlathotep which IIRC is a Lovecraft entity. We will see. it should be interesting

It could highly be him after all, he does share an attribute w/ the angled one's (tentacles). It gives this story event some true history origin unlike Chaos Wars.

let's wait and see...

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the story is better than chaos war. wish there were some tie ins

Yep, it would be good to have tie ins or at least features in other books, but I'm glad 6 is comming out and I'm waiting for the epilogue books as well.

looks wonderful

Originally posted by Warlord
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=6891&disp=table

Spoiler:
to be honest Mar Vel just utters the name Shumma Gorath. It doesn't mean it is he who is responsible. He also speaks the name of Nyarlathotep which IIRC is a Lovecraft entity. We will see. it should be interesting

I Initially thought the same as you because I didn't look close enough when I read it.

however

Nyarlathotep is a Lovecraft entity....Nyarlathortech is not.

Just like Klth is not Chuthlu.

no I know... I saw it from the begining. I just think the writers have Mar Vell shouting names of demonic entities (even with the twisted name).
I just don't buy Shuma being powerful enough to create such chaos.

Also they are called the many angled ONES hinting that they are more than just one entity

Originally posted by Warlord
no I know... I saw it from the begining. I just think the writers have Mar Vell shouting names of demonic entities (even with the twisted name).
I just don't buy Shuma being powerful enough to create such chaos.

Also they are called the many angled ONES hinting that they are more than just one entity

right, i was thinking that if they're going to reveal who the MAO are...it'd make more sense for Shuma Gorath to be a premier participant vs. an obvious lovecraft copy/clone.

Now if this Nyarlathortech is not a tall man who looks pharoah-esque, and instead is a tentacled being, then that I could buy i guess.

In any case...looks interesting. The sword looks similar to phyla's that she received from Oblivion. not saying it's the same weapon...just looks similar.

Going to have to agree that SG may not be the only Lovecraft being involved but maybe the primary being unless they want to make up a new one.

Also did you guys catch it right there. Look at Mar-Vell, it's

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the Infinity Gauntlet forming in his hand during the Necropsy

I thought the same thing so it must be intentional, right?

Originally posted by Bentley
I thought the same thing so it must be intentional, right?

It's gotta be seeing as they're both Starlin fans. Also seeing as how these guys know what their talking about especially bringing in SG's name.

i wonder who those elder gods are that they are referring too
according to invaders 4 plot, Set(elder god) is a lovecraftian character and is returning alongside shuma gorath, the elder gods were brought from lovecraft (Set, Chthon)

Well tomorrow's the day. Hopefully this thing ends well and my boy goes out with a bang. Unleash the full Nova force dammit!

Originally posted by dmills
Well tomorrow's the day. Hopefully this thing ends well and my boy goes out with a bang. Unleash the full Nova force dammit!

Are you absolutely sure that Nova is going to die?

Originally posted by Stoic
Are you absolutely sure that Nova is going to die?

So I have read the issue

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Pretty good issue. At the front-line of the fault, things are looking desperate as Galactus is seemingly engaging the Galactus Engine 1-on-1 (what happened to Tenebrous? the Celestials?) and situation is so dire that the Kree and Shiar fleets as well as the full remnant of the Nova corps are moving in to support Galactus directly. Buzzing flies to a heavyweight championship boxing match.

Back in the Cancerverse, Nova arrives and battles the Revengerse, by himself. He makes one final (yep, final) communique with the worldmind and summons all the nova force from Wendell and the nova corps members who are supposedly supporting Big G.

However, it turns out that Thanos screwed Mar-Vell, as performing the ritual somehow brought 616 Death to the Necropsy, and she simply touched Mar-Vell and he was dead. The Galactus Engine explodes, the fault because to recede and close itself, and the GoG are somehow tricked into teleporting out, without Nova and Starlord. Thanos, imploring Death to speak to him, gets no response, and starts going bezerk. Quill and Nova intend to seal Thanos in the imploding Cancerverse to prevent him wreaking madness in 616 universe.

Starlord uses the last of the cosmic cube and Nova, empowered by full access to the Nova Force, rush to contain Thanos for 60 seconds until the cancerverse implodes on itself and is no more.

On Attilan, statues of various casualites are erected (Adam Warlock, Phyla-Vell, Drax) and of course, the statues of Starlord and Nova that I mentioned Sepulveda showed me are on the last page.

Have to be honest, it was someone of a depressing end, seeing all those statues. Literal and figurative ending of an era.