Comics: Thanos cancelled

The cover to the cancelled first issue. (Click to enlarge.)

Just a day after soliciting it in Diamond’s Previews magazine, Marvel has cancelled Thanos: Son of Titan, the five issue miniseries that delves into the origins of the character in the Marvel Mailer to retailers. Writer Joe Keatinge and artist Rich Elson have already been moved to other projects. Editor Steve Wacker downplayed the announcement on his Twitter: “For those interested, plans have indeed changed on Thanos. Nothing too dramatic, we just jumped the gun a bit. Joe Keatinge and Rich Elson both have projects coming up in the Spidey office that we’ll be announcing soon. They’re bloody great!”

Thanos was created by Jim Starlin, who is on record as being unhappy with Marvel’s exploitation of his character without any compensation.

About Nick Ahlhelm

Nicholas Ahlhelm has let his love for superheroes as a concept pretty much overwhelm his good sense. A fan of super-powered prose fiction since he discovered Wild Cards at twelve. Since then, he has expanded his reading and viewing to cover superheroes through every means he can find, whether comics, prose fiction, movies, television, or transmedia sources. In the mean time, he regular maintains three fiction-producing website publications: Metahuman Press, Pulp Empire, and The Dead Walk Again. At the same time, he writes the weekly web comic Arc with artist Jay Rainford-Nash, published every Tuesday. (Other comic works are in various stages of production.) He lives in Eastern Iowa with his wife and two daughters, in an increasingly small house.

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