via Hero Complex - Los Angeles Times

The new game Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet has just hit store shelves, and I watched the trailer with a bit of fascination. The reason? I continue to be surprised by the ability of Marvel and DC to create versions of their characters that are wildly different in tone. When I was a young comics fan in the early 1980s, Thanos was a murderous butcher on a cosmic scale, a guy who actually romanced death and kissed her right on the lips — or would have if, you know, death’s femine aspect actually had lips. Now Thanos is part of a video game for tykes, a sort of lightweight Skeletor who sound like he needs a cough drop.

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