Writer Kieron Gillen will examine and explore events surrounding Thanos' birth in an upcoming one-shot for his run on Eternals.
CBR can exclusively reveal Eternals: Thanos Rise by Kieron Gillen and Dustin Weaver, a one-shot that centers on the Mad Titan and the events surrounding his birth, including an Eternals civil war.
"One of the side effects of having that big vision of Eternals, with a timeline stretching across the million years they've been on Earth, is that we can always do an issue like this," Gillen said. "Choose an interesting, near mythic point, and then just do it. Which one to start with? It clearly had to be basically the nativity of Thanos, the whole civil war in the Eternals which led to his birth and all of that, rendered in the joys of Dustin-Weaver-o-vision. This is one of the more epic, brutal and gleefully bleak issues I think I've ever written, and with Thanos at its heart, would you expect anything else?"
ETERNALS: THANOS RISES #1
- KIERON GILLEN (W) • DUSTIN WEAVER (A) • Cover by ESAD RIBIĆ
- Eternals are created, not born. They have families, but their families make no new children.
- It’s simply not what Eternals do.
- Some of them thought they could find a way to change that and believed it would be for the best.
- They were terribly, terribly wrong.
Weaver's cover features Thanos standing in front of a throne with multiple skull heads littered on the floor by his feet. Looming in the background is Thanos' family, including his brother Starfox. The Mad Titan has played a key role during Gillen and Esad Ribic's Eternals run, as the centuries-old heroes investigate who has secretly been murdering their own kind.
Eternals: Thanos Rises #1 goes on sale in September from Marvel Comics.
Source: Marvel