As revealed at CBR today, the son of Thanos is returning.
Written by Rob Williams and illustrated by Paco Diaz, Iban Coello and Neil Edwards, “Thanos: A God Up There Is Listening” will be a six-part Infinite Comic that is released next month, seemingly on the peripheral as part of “Original Sin.” The story finds Thane, who was last seen blasting his father in the face before leaving Earth with the Ebony Maw, traveling out in the edges of the galaxy as he learns more about his father from Thanos’ biographer, an alien who once was part of Thanos’ crew. Via some telepathic bonding, at the same time the story will be counter-balanced with a story of Thanos, who will be clashing with Ego the Living Planet.
As Williams comments on Thane, who has not been seen or written by anyone but Hickman in “Infinity,”
Imagine if everything you’ve known is thrown completely out the window and you find out that not only do you have a real father that you weren’t aware of, but he’s this reality’s greatest monster. Poor guy. That’s a loaded bus heading off a cliff. You can keep trying to steer it to safety but there’s a lot of weight back there.
Then of course Thane was very well written by Jonathan Hickman in the “Infinity” miniseries where he was a healer as well. So it’s even more of a cosmic joke. He was living in this Inhuman city healing people and then the Terrigen bomb went off and everyone he knew was killed. Thane is a tragic figure in that he was a good guy and he wants to be a good guy. His mantra throughout this story is that he is not Thanos and he will not be Thanos.
He is determined to prove that, but as I said, the odds are very strongly stacked against him. This is a story of an individual trying to discover his past and who is determined to be a good person, but whether or not he can remain so is what we’ll find out by the end.
“Thanos: A God Up There is Listening” will be released in July.
