Thanos: Santuário Zero

Thanos (2019) #1-6

by Tini Howard (Narrator), Ariel Olivetti (Illustrator)

Thanos, o flagelo do universo, está morto! E foi Gamora, a assassina mais letal da galáxia e sua amada filha adotiva, quem o executou. Mas como nasceu essa conturbada relação familiar que culminou em um final sangrento? Como brotou o amor paternal em um dos mais cruéis e brutais seres do universo, em relação a uma órfã cuja espécie ele exterminou completamente? Tini Howard (Excalibur, Thanos) e Ariel Olivetti (Justiceiro, A Morte dos Inumanos) voltam ao dia em que a vida de Gamora mudou por completo para recontar o início de sua história com Thanos, partindo de um ponto de vista completamente novo.

(Thanos 1-6)

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Graphic Novels Comics, Science Fiction

144 pages, Paperback

First published December 10, 2019

Reviews

[Chad · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nicely filled in some of the gaps of Gamora's and Thanos's history together without retconning their past. Plus Ebony Maw and Proxima Midnight. I liked that the Blood Brothers were part of this as well.

Ariel Olivetti's art was great. I'm glad he abandoned the CGI look that his art used to have. He's a talented enough artist without that crutch.

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story, a modern retelling of Gamora’s origin, was OK, if a little redundant. The artwork, on the other hand, was absolutely beautiful. Ariel Olivetti’s work really suits these cosmic tales. Worth reading just for the artwork. In my opinion, this should have been a Gamora book, as it was her story, but I guess Thanos’ name will shift more units at the moment, sadly.

Story: 3 stars
Artwork: 5 stars
Overall rating: 4 stars

[Rylan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a retelling of Thanos and Gamora’s origin through the narration of Gamora. It’s really nice and emotional at times. Gamora is one of my favorite characters in the MCU so it’s cool learning more about her origin in the comics and her relationship with Thanos. The art is also top tier in here.

[Guilherme Smee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tini Howard é uma escritora iniciante na Marvel, tendo começado seus trabalhos no mercado estadunidense em um concurso de talentos da Top Cow. Este Thanos: Santuário Zero é um dos primeiros trabalhos completos da autora que posso ler em português do Brasil. Mas nas páginas deste encadernado já podemos ver a que a autora veio. Ela desenvolver de forma bastante bem arquitetada a relação estranha de pai e filha estabelecida entre Thanos e Gamora, criando uma saga cósmica e familiar que deixaria Jim Starlin, o criador dos dois personagens, orgulhoso. Ao lado de Tini Howard, nos desenhos, se junta um veterano dos quadrinhos da Marvel, o argentino Ariel Olivetti. Uma pena que Olivetti agora vem adotando um estilo mais cru, porém mais rápido que não contém mais a pintura digital que era um traço memorável de seu trabalho em HQs como Cable, Venom: Cavaleiro Espacial, Justiceiro: Diário de Guerra e O Incrível Hulk. Essa opção por um desenho mais rápido não afeta sua narrativa visual, que continua sensacional. Assim, aqueles que gostam de uma boa história cósmica e espacial, com muitas reviravoltas, traições e até momentos de parceria, carinho e retribuição, pode confiar em Thanos: Santuário Zero.

[Sud666 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Zero Sanctuary was a good story. Collecting Thanos (2019) #1-5.

This is a Gamora story. It is her story. Gamora tells of how she was found and trained by Thanos. While Thanos does play a part and the other side of the story is his conflict with Magus. However this story develops Gamorra and how she became the killing machine she is known as.

The art is pretty good and the story entertaining. While nothing mind-blowing, this Gamorra=origin story was a fun read.

[Etienne · Rating 4 out of 5]

3,5/5. This is more of a Gamora origin story than a Thanos one, but Thanos probably sell more issues than Gamora, so that explain the title. That being said, this was a good story with good artwork, some part felt over stretch a bit and it could have been maybe one issue shorter overall, but I enjoy it.

[RG · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just felt odd and kinda not in line with anything

[Tesutamento · Rating 3 out of 5]

Infinity Wars'da yaşananlardan sonra böyle bir hikaye yazılarak yaşananların ağırlığını arttırmak ve yaşananlara biraz daha anlam kazandırmak istenmiş. Hikaye boyunca Thanos ile küçük Gamora'nın baba-kız ilişkisini görüyoruz. Tabii ki Çılgın Titan sıradan bir baba değil. Haliyle Gamora da sıradan bir çocukluk yaşamıyor. Hikayede bir de Thanos'un mürettabatı var. Kaptanlarındaki değişime hayret ediyorlar ve bu fırsattan istifade etmeye çalışıyorlar. Çizimler güzel olsa da hikaye fazlasıyla tahmin edilebilir ilerliyor.

Ayrıca bu kitap Gerekli Şeyler tarafından basılmış son Marvel çizgi romanı. Sonrasında bir sayı Avatar ve çizgi roman basmaya veda.

[Brandon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tini Howard gets a chance to write Gamora's backstory and I think this is one of my favourite things I've read from her. Thanos starts off as a mad man who kills the same way people might get out of bed in the morning and brush their teeth. From there we see him take on Gamora, plan his war against the Magus, and ultimately show himself as this menacing and powerful beast who knows he's the strongest and makes that everyone else's problem. Gamora on the other hand starts as some innocent kid before becoming this great soldier and killer in her own right, all played as a tale told from the modern Gamora who has become full of regret and sadness.

Of course we're fresh off the heels of Infinity Wars and Gamora killing Thanos in order to replace him (sort of) all while Donny Cates' Guardians of the Galaxy run is playing out in the background and as Gamora mourns the loss of her first families, her 'current' family is tearing itself apart and grieving its own losses. After so many years of Thanos being the greatest threat, or his stories being about how he's the baddest of the bad and the universe quakes at his feat, we now have a story of him growing some softness for his 'daughter' Gamora. Ariel Olivetti does the artwork here and even his pencils have a softness and roundness to them that make these hardened warriors and great antagonists of the universe appear more human and personal. Thanos and Magus are still big bads, but instead of showing their power through force and action scenes we get them strategizing and slowly pondering their place in the universe pitted against one another. Two great evils, with this frightened little girl being tossed around like a pawn between them.

It's a wonderful mini-series and one of the few times where you get to see more of Gamora that isn't some badass deadliest woman in the galaxy, and also isn't directly a creature of pity. She's young, it's terrible to turn a child into a soldier, but she's smart and knows how to survive. She pulls herself together and finds a way to navigate this new cosmic scale, flung into the midst of great beings like Death, Thanos, and the Magus, doing what she can to make her own place. And of course a crew of largely disposable soldiers of Thanos now called "Butcher Squadron" featuring familiar faces Ebony Maw, Proxima Midnight, and a bunch of no-names new appearances. They're fun, especially since (for most of them) we don't know what their fates are so Howard and Olivetti can take liberties with the risks of each and every new conspiracy they plan.

I've spent the past year reading most of Marvel's cosmic stories of the past decade and I will say that this Thanos mini-series is one of the more unique and refreshing stories among them, definitely one of the ones I'd most recommend checking out.

[Adam Fisher · Rating 3 out of 5]

Currenly (or at least at time of this publication) Thanos is dead in the Marvel Universe. How then can he get his own mini-series? Simple, by exploring his past! There is one part of his past we never knew before, and that is how his life was right after obtaining Gamora. This series is a story told by current (post-Infinity Wars) Gamora to a young (current) Magus.
3 details to comment on:
1) The Black Order has not always been completely loyal to Thanos. Back when they were just "Butcher Squadron", they once attempted a kind of a mutiny when they didn't agree with Thanos usage of troops against Magus' church.
2) Magus, who I know as "Evil Adam Warlock" apparently bases some of his power on the faith of his believers. Does Adam Warlock operate the same way? So much about 'Cosmic Marvel' I still don't understand after all these years...
3) Gamora has ALWAYS BEEN A BAD ASS, even as a kid. A large portion of this story has her chasing after Thanos when he doesn't let her participate in something because she is a kid.

Overall, I'm not sure this was a needed story, unless something is coming up that makes it vital, but a decent read anyways.
Recommend.

[Dan Barker · Rating 3 out of 5]

Changing to movie version

This is a retrospective story, on how Gamora grew up to become the Deadliest Woman in the Galaxy. Naturally, they used the Infinity War movie as a guide. After all, Marvel belongs to Disney now.
However, company presidents and vice presidents know nothing about comic books or comics fans. They don't know that conforming to movies never works. (See the X-men and Spider-Man) Movies come and go, and are forgotten or out of date - but comics go on.
As for the story, we see Gamora living with Thanos in his first starship, a rattletrap affair ready to fall apart, and the early days of Thanos' lieutenants.
This is not an action-packed story, but a kind of coming of age tale, plus origin.
The story holds up, and the art is okay, but it's not one of the greats.
For Thanos completists or to catch on a super sale.

[Emre · Rating 5 out of 5]

Çok fazla soru oluşturdu. Gamora'yı ilk defa takma kol ve bacak kullanırken gördüm. Hiç bir seride onu böyle hatırlamıyorum. Daha önce İnfinity serisini de okumuştum -şu meşhur sonsuzluk taşlarının olduğu seri- orada bile Gamora böyle değildi. Yetiştirdiğinde kendinden parçalar bıraksa da o kendi güdüleriyle hareket eden biri oldu. Thanos onu ne kadar kızı gibi büyütmek istese de ondaki farklı yanlar tam olarak istediğini yapmasına engel oldu. Sanırım Gamora Ölümü görmedi gördüğü kişi şekil değiştirmiş Magus'tu! Eğer gördüyse de Ölüm ona görünmüş veya oyun oynamış olabilir çünkü Ölüm sadece Thanos'un bilinçaltında olan birisiydi. Aşık olduğu birisi! Thanos nasıl ve neden öldü burada? Bilinen evrende Gamora yetişkinken Thanos yaşıyor. Formaliter bir ölüm müydü geriye dönüp dönüp baktım neyi kaçırdığımı anlayamadım.

[Rocky Sunico · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a weird Thanos book that wasn't quite as grim and introspective about the greater role of Death in the universe. Instead, we have a version of the Titan that felt certainly a lot more mad than I'd like. But I suppose that's fine since this was really a Gamora story and the greater focus was how she became the "daughter" of Thanos. And we even got what can only be termed to be a kiddie version of the Black Order. The story was okay and it helps explain why the likes of Thanos would ever let himself get saddled with a child so in that regard it wasn't too bad.

But maybe I also just miss Jim Starlin writing Thanos.

[Ondra Král · Rating 3 out of 5]

Moderní komiks o prvním setkání Thanose a Gamory. Čekal jsem strašnej průser, co poleze do zadku filmům, ale ono ne. Howardová šikovně mixuje Aaronův Thanos Rising se Starlinem a celé dílo moc pěkně zapadá do kontinuity. To mě potěšilo.

Co mě už tolik nepotěšilo je samotnej příběh. Začátek super - Thanosovi hrabe a místo vyprávěcích rámečků to sledujeme hlavně skrz posádku. Jenže pak se na scéně objevuje edgy Gamora s daddy issues a jde to do kytek. Celé zápolení s Magusem je pak spíš nuda, stejně jako Ebony a jeho neustále starscreamování. Poslední sešit už jsem spíš odzíval.

V češtině je to nejslabší komiksy s Thanosem.

[Andrei · Rating 3 out of 5]

A story about how Thanos finds Gamora, and the beginning of their relationship. Thanos is a bit distracted, but this doesn't stop him from reminding people every now and then that he's still a ruthless killer. Meanwhile, Gamora learns to deal with her captor as she best can, considering she's just a child. There's some internal rioting within Thanos's crew, Magus makes an appearance (a character I don't know anything about), and Gamora has a bit of Stockholm Syndrome.

Art is ok, all in all a good quick read.

[Aykut Elmas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thanos’un Gamora’yı bulup büyütüp sanırım onu tarafından öldürülmesini konu alan bir seri. 2019 yapımı olması güzel. Çizimler iyi. Thanos’u gayet iyi tasvir etmişler. Ama öldürülme işine pek aklım yatmadı. Bakalım oraya gelince okuyup göreceğiz.

[Beelzefuzz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thanos is haunted by the ghosts of Christmas deaths past, present, and future.
Gamora is the only one corporeal, and it is really her book more than his.
Does not really fit in with any Thanos previously told. Not too interesting. Ultimately skippable.

[Matthias Noch · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not in line with the MCU, as expected, but also not in line with most of the other stories of Thanos or Gamora. Not bad, but a bit strange and unconnected.

[Daniel Butcher · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting look at the early Gamora/Thanos relationship and how they differ in some cases.

[Evey Morgan · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5/5

[Devin Araujo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Papa Thanos

[Larry · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story of Thanos and Gamora.

[Carlos J. Eguren · Rating 3 out of 5]

161/365

Una historia bastante normalita y eso que me esperaba más teniendo como punto de partida la infancia de Gamora y la “adopción” de esta llevada a cabo por Thanos. Le falta la épica de Lemire y la gracia del “Thanos vence” y lo que cuenta se queda en una historia simplista que podría haber sido muchísimo mejor.

[Jamil · Rating 2 out of 5]

The writing's weak but the art is good