There’s a great scene in Hawkeye where someone writes in a bathroom, “ Thanos was right.” Why do you think that character still lingers in our imagination? Three years after Avengers: Endgame, people are still obsessed with Thanos both in the real world and within the MCU. “I was waiting for a dragon in a bathing suit.” Marvel Entertainment But I'd like to think they'll throw a few of my things in there. Where they go from that is anyone's guess. He’s a character that has a lot of facets, I think they're gonna probably start off with him, more in the Jack Kirby/Stan Lee Him thing. And so when I started on Warlock, I thought, what am I going to do with him? He is a Shaolin Priest/deity kind of thing and it seemed the most logical course might be to turn him into a schizophrenic paranoiac with suicidal tendencies. Well, I had just finished with Captain Marvel, where I took this warrior and turned him into sort of a Shaolin Priest/Messiah character. What was your approach there and what interests you about this character?

You didn’t create Adam Warlock, but you evolved his character a lot in the comics. So I'll be curious to see what happens here. When they did the casting call for Adam Warlock, it wasn't just for Adam Warlock. “When they did the casting call for Adam Warlock, it wasn’t just for Adam Warlock. I doubt if he's going to be in just this one movie. Thanos and Warlock also have a lot in common and have an association, and they got a fairly good star for Adam Warlock. I think they're planning on starting him off without Thanos. Can Eros be an interesting character without Thanos as a foil? In the comics, Eros and Thanos interact a lot. It's the most beautiful artwork I've seen Rags ever produce. And we have a new project I'm doing with Rags Morales. My plan is to do a five graphic novel set.Īt the same time, I'm also going to be working with Dark Horse. After that, I have two more graphic novels in the works involving Dreadstar. I'm 45 or 46 pages into the next one, which is Dreadstar vs. We have all of the second Dreadstar graphic novel, Dreadstar vs. And then we're going into the Dreadstar graphic novels directly afterward. We're going to start with an omnibus version of all the Breed stories. We're going to do the Kickstarter to finance the printing of it.

We'll be doing the same thing we did with the Dreadstar graphic novel. So I'm going with a new company named Monkey Wrench. The last time we spoke you were working on Dreadstar. Read on for Jim Starlin’s thoughts on other characters he created like Shang-Chi and Thanos, along with Adam Warlock (who he changed dramatically), his current non-Marvel project Dreadstar, and more.

With Marvel dominating the internet yet again after Saturday’s D23 panel, I thought it was finally time to unleash this interview on the world. Starlin has never been one to hold back, and he’s got plenty more to say.

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