More on what happened with Marvel’s Thanos: Son of Titan series, courtesy of Tom Brevoort’s Formspring. According to him, at least, the “Marvel pulled the series because of potential legal action from creator Jim Starlin” conspiracy theory – which I heard at my local store being related as fact, leading me to think I’d missed something somewhere – isn’t the case:
Jim had absolutely nothing to do with why we’ve put that Thanos project on the back burner for the moment.
Back to the idea that there was something that really didn’t work for someone at Marvel about the direction the book was taking, then, although it’s interesting that Son of Titan is described as “on the back burner for the moment” as opposed to canceled or dead; perhaps Steve Wacker’s “jumped the gun” comment was more about the timing of the book as it relates to other Thanos comics planned – maybe something contemporary spinning out from the character’s Avengers Assemble appearances? After all, Brevoort later confirmed that there are other plans for material to prepare fans of 2014′s Guardians of The Galaxy movie, much to no-one’s surprise…
July 31st, 2012 at 5:36 am
I think it’s pretty obvious that they are just holding onto it until closer to the Guardians of the Galaxy movie as to make it a movie tie in. Cause of all those fans who go straight from the movie theater to the comic store.