Warlock #10
Title(s): How Strange My Destiny!
Who is Thanos?
Enter the Redemption Principle!
Writer: Jim Starlin
Artist: Jim Starlin
Villain: Magus, Matriarch, Thanos, In-Betweener
Regulars: Pip the Troll, Gamora
Flashbacks: Autolycus, Kray-Tor, Lens Teans
Captain Marvel, Mentor, Eros, Death, Drax
Captain America, Black Panther, Thor, Swordsman, Vision, Mantis
This comic is divided into three chapters. The first chapter begins with the
Magus sending 25,000 Black Knights to attack Warlock. This is something that's
happened before in the Magus' own past, so he knows they won't be enough to
defeat Warlock. They're intended to slow Warlock down for three hours until
the In-Betweener arrives. What the Magus doesn't know is that Warlock isn't
fighting alone. He has Gamora and Thanos at his side, making it an easier
victory.
Yes, Pip is in the room as well, but he doesn't do anything.
They retreat, but when they break out of the church they find themselves
surrounded by thousands more Black Knights. Thanos suggests that they
break through the ground into the chaurch's catacombs. My guess is that
this is something Warlock didn't do when he was fighting alone, because
the Black Knights can't find him.
In the catacombs they find the Matriarch dying.
Warlock feels sympathy and even affection for her.
The second chapter is an interlude, in which Captain Marvel appears as the
narrator to explain who Thanos is. Over the next two pages there's a short
recap of the events in
Captain Marvel #25
to
#33. That was an epic tale, but the current story is even better. Says who? Says
me!
Pause for a moment to admire the splash page of chapter three. Maybe it will
tell you why Jim Starlin is my favourite artist.
Thanos has teleported Warlock, Gamora, Pip and himself to his spaceship, which
he calls Sanctuary. It also contains a time machine. The Magus is unable to
detect Warlock's location, so he observes the In-Betweener, who's walking in a
straight line towards him.
Thanos tells Warlock that he's failed in killing the Magus in the present, so
the Magus has to die in the past. He tells Warlock to kill himself, using the
time machine, to assure that the Magus will never exist.
I don't understand exactly what significance the time machine has, but if
Thanos relies on it, it must be powerful.
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