Jim Starlin, Co-Creator Of Thanos, Drax And Others, Leaves Marvel

Dean (21. December 2017 12:34 )
Jim Starlin, Co-Creator Of Thanos, Drax And Others, Leaves MarvelNews  |  DLH.NET The Gaming People


Yikes. Jim Starlin is a legend in the business, from both and artistic and plot standpoint, and it sounds like he has finally had it with Marvel, a company he has worked for off and on since 1972.

Starlin has created or co-created a lot of big name characters, like Guardians of the Galaxy's Drax the Destroyer and Gamora, Thanos and others. By the time his latest book, Thanos, the Infinity Siblings comes out, he will not longer be employed at Marvel. He jumped on the ol facebook and had this to say about his decision to leave his long-time home 


“Just to set the record straight, Marvel Comics didn’t pull me off any books, they just made it clear they weren’t interested in using me on any of the tie-in series to the movies or regular series. Even though I lobbied heavily to write the Thanos on-going that task was twice given to other writers, which is Marvel Editorial’s right to do. What I objected to and what will be keep me from doing any further work for Marvel Editorial was Tom Brevoort approving a plot for the current on-going series, which was pretty much the same as the Thanos story arc in the graphic novel trilogy Alan Davis and I have been working on for Tom for close to the past year. He had 200 pages of script and 100 pages of pencils on this project when he gave the green light to a strikingly similar plot,” he continued. “The on-going will be in print before the graphic novel trilogy. To avoid spoiling anyone’s enjoyment of these two stories I will not be summarizing the striking similarities. At first Tom denied giving his approval to the plot. When that turned out to be false, he switched to claiming there was nothing similar about the two plots. When that didn’t fly he changed his story to it was all an accident. These changes of excuse and other bits of procrastination ate up a month, by which time the current Thanos on-going art team was too far along for anything to be done about the situation. Too bad for me. So I am moving on.”

It's too bad, because Starlin is a household name among comic book fans, and it sounds like the treatment he got from Tom Brevoort wasn't all that legit. He will be missed at Marvel, but I doubt that he is going to be out of work for long. 



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