Avengers #5: Thanos versus Hulk

Colección Avengers de Clarín #5

by Jim Starlin

Annihilus affida un incarico importante a Blaastar, che a sua volta lo gira a Pip il Troll: rapire Bruce Banner! Ma c'è qualcosa che non è chiaro e così Pip decide di chiedere aiuto a un suo vecchio amico: Thanos! Inizia così un'avventura tra Zona Negativa e piano astrale, tra la Terra e lo Spazio, scritta e disegnata dal grandissimo autore Jim Starlin! A completare il tutto, un'inedita avventura dell'Hulk dell'Era di Apocalisse!

96 pages, Paperback

Published June 20, 2018

About the author

James P. "Jim" Starlin is an American comic book writer and artist. With a career dating back to the early 1970s, he is best known for "cosmic" tales and space opera; for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock; and for creating or co-creating the Marvel characters Thanos and Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu. Death and suicide are recurring themes in Starlin's work: Personifications of Death appeared in his Captain Marvel series and in a fill-in story for Ghost Rider; Warlock commits suicide by killing his future self; and suicide is a theme in a story he plotted and drew for The Rampaging Hulk magazine.

In the mid-1970s, Starlin contributed a cache of stories to the independently published science-fiction anthology Star Reach. Here he developed his ideas of God, death, and infinity, free of the restrictions of mainstream comics publishers' self-censorship arm, the Comics Code Authority. Starlin also drew "The Secret of Skull River", inked by frequent collaborator Al Milgrom, for Savage Tales #5 (July 1974).

When Marvel Comics wished to use the name of Captain Marvel for a new, different character,[citation needed] Starlin was given the rare opportunity to produce a one-shot story in which to kill off a main character. The Death of Captain Marvel became the first graphic novel published by the company itself. (

In the late 1980s, Starlin began working more for DC Comics, writing a number of Batman stories, including the four-issue miniseries Batman: The Cult (Aug.-Nov. 1988), and the storyline "Batman: A Death in the Family", in Batman #426-429 (Dec. 1988 – Jan. 1989), in which Jason Todd, the second of Batman's Robin sidekicks, was killed. The death was decided by fans, as DC Comics set up a hotline for readers to vote on as to whether or not Jason Todd should survive a potentially fatal situation. For DC he created Hardcore Station.

Reviews

[Samuele Sposito · Rating 2 out of 5]

La fantomatica battaglia che la copertina lascia presagire, beh… quasi non c’è, è solo una piccola porzione di una storia “interessante” ma incentrata su altro, e che non si risolve in maniera del tutto appagante.

Bei disegni.

2.5

[Victor · Rating 2 out of 5]

I went from reading Hellboy to this. I mean, Jim Starlin is not a bad Marvel, but I feel like this would have been a much better story if it was in Vertigo or Dark Horse. It felt like Starlin was trying to write a more mature story, and Marvel did not let him.

Also, the cover is false advertising. The fight is not what you expect; it is almost like a side point. The fight between Hulk and another Marvel character is more interesting.

Lastly, I hate dumb Hulk. Peter David and Grek Pak write way better Hulk stories with the Hulk being more intelligent, though not David Banner intelligent. More like Gray Hulk.

[Dony Grayman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quinto tomo de la Colección Avengers de Clarín, dedicado al titán verde contra el titán loco.