Trek into fantasy and witness the uncharted depths of
knowledge and all that is real and imagined in Jim Starlin’s, “The Silver
Surfer, Rebirth of Thanos."
In “…Rebirth of Thanos,” Thanos, plans on killing 50
percent of all living beings in the entire universe. Chrome Dome must search
the infinite vastness of the cosmos to thwart the lurid plot of Thanos and his
insane bid to kill billions.
The cosmic enlightenment of laughter and death is
blissfully displayed in Starlin’s, “…Rebirth of Thanos.”
Thanos is the epitome of evil, he killed his mother
when he was 10-years-old, and when he was 18-years-old, he held a girl captive
for weeks before he murdered her, and when her remains were discovered, they
were too ghastly for any words or pictures.
“I seek a vile creature, he is a killer of worlds,
seeking to paint the cosmos a blood scarlet,” the Silver Surfer said.
Thanos has powers, skills and knowledge beyond mortal
reckoning and he allies with Mistress Death in his insane quest for ultimate
power and to be the harbinger of death and despair.
The mystic conjuring of reality within the sacred documents of
the Silver Surfer remained fascinating in this more than 200-page comic book.
The nexus of reality, the fulcrum of existence and the
shared realm of chaos and disorder is where the Silver Surfer meets with Thanos.
Dichotomies is this meeting place, a land where enemies cannot engage in any sort
of combat, even in their greatest efforts to attempt it, hence Thanos and the
Silver Surfer talk politics.
Thanos argues that life and death are on the same coin,
and must coexist together, and mass murder is needed to keep humanity around.
The Silver Surfer thinks Thanos is an evil wack job
with absolutely no empathy or positive passion, and thus the two know, they
must one day fight each other to the death at some point in time.
This comic book left me wanting more. The story was far
from completed, and for reasons unknown to myself, I still haven’t acquired the
sequel, “The Infinity Gauntlet.”
The forbidding fantasies of Thanos really get going
when one by one, he begins to acquire all six Soul Gems which are laden throughout
the far corners of the galaxies. Each of the six gems harnesses the ultimate
power of energy, time, immortality and three other tangible emotions.
The ability to reconstruct the streams of time itself
would be the beckoning call to the owner of the Soul Gem of time.
“I am reality, I am infinite, I am the almighty. I
have wrestled the reins of power from the hands of the supreme being, and yet
becoming a god is a hollow victory,” Thanos said.
Inkers, John Beatty and Tom Christopher along with
letterer Ken Bruzenak and colorist Tom Vincent had some funny and captivating detail
in their illustrations.
I give this Silver Surfer issue a solid four-star
rating. Starlin’s words really gripped my senses. Within schemes and dreams the
well of infinity within its comic vortex possesses universal knowledge unimaginable
with absolutely no barriers, and only then are all things possible. (Jim
Starlin)
