Thanos Creator Jim Starlin Leaves Marvel Comics
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Jim Starlin, the creator of Avengers: Infinity War villain and giant wrinkled grape Thanos, is no longer with Marvel Comics. Per THR, the very public falling-out was due to disputes with Marvel Editorial.
Starlin’s forthcoming graphic novel, Thanos: The Infinity Siblings, is still due for release in February of 2018, but the artist and writer said on Facebook:
What I objected to and what will be keep me from doing any further work for Marvel Editorial was [executive editor] Tom Brevoort approving a plot for the current on-going [Thanos] 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. 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.