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Thanos creator Jim Starlin is moving on from
Marvel Comics. His last project using the character is the graphic novel Thanos:
The Infinity Siblings. The reason behind the move comes down to a dispute
between him and Editor Tom Brevoort. On his Facebook page Starlin explained,
“Just to set the record straight, Marvel Comics didn’t pull me off any books,
they just made it clear they weren’t interested in using me on any of the tie-in
series to the movies or regular series. Even though I lobbied heavily to write
the Thanos on-going that task was twice given to other writers, which is Marvel
Editorial’s right to do. What I objected to and what will be keep me from doing
any further work for Marvel Editorial was Tom Brevoort approving a plot for the
current on-going series, which was pretty much the same as the Thanos story arc
in the graphic novel trilogy Alan Davis and I have been working on for Tom for
close to the past year. He had 200 pages of script and 100 pages of pencils on
this project when he gave the green light to a strikingly similar plot. The
on-going will be in print before the graphic novel trilogy. To avoid spoiling
anyone’s enjoyment of these two stories I will not be summarizing the striking
similarities. At first Tom denied giving his approval to the plot. When that
turned out to be false, he switched to claiming there was nothing similar about
the two plots. When that didn’t fly he changed his story to it was all an
accident. These changes of excuse and other bits of procrastination ate up a
month, by which time the current Thanos on-going art team was too far along for
anything to be done about the situation. Too bad for me. So I am moving on.” He
wanted it to be clear that he had no issues with Marvel Entertainment just with
Brevoort. |
