Gets put on existing franchise

>Gets put on existing franchise.
>Decides to write about his OC instead.
>Continues to do so for decades no matter what book he's on, never writing a new story, just continuing the old story.
Is Jim Starlin cool or a loser? Would it have been better if he wrote more than two stories that weren't the continuing adventures of Thanos?

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I don't have a time travelling machine and when I get one I won't waste it on finding out. But as to the loser question, yeah, that was a given when you start retconning losses for your pet character.

I still respect him, since he seems to genuinely love writing these stories. It doesn't feel like he's doing this to prove anything to anyone. It's just him making his strange fantasies into stories for everyone to read if they wish.
But I can't say I find his original graphic novel stuff very interesting or necessary.

Fair enough.
Thanos wouldn't become a big deal if Jom didn't push him so hard, but it would have been nice if you could get a Starlin Silver Surfer that doesn't immediately segue into more Thanos.

>Gets put on existing franchise.
>Decides to write about his OC instead.
I don't think you know much about how it actually went, he was explicitly told to create a similar character to Darkseid, all he did was use his own experiences and ideas too fill the rest.
Also he's written way more than Thanos (Dreadstar for one thing), he's just famous over Thanos for obvious reasons but it's not like he's only in it for his OC.

He is a loser that found a lot of other losers to give him praise and money.

How dare he create a character and have a personal attachment to writing them, you know like most respectable cartoonists
Jack Kirby should have just used existing DC characters for Fourth World, after all it's an existing franchise and OCs are automatically bad right?

I was actually talking about Drax + Thanos for the Iron Man story, and the fact that pretty much everything he was writing at Marvel from that point on had him hop over to "nah fuck that, time for more Thanos." It went way, way beyond the initial push to make his own mark on those comics. Generally it was for the better, but after a while Jim was just using other titles as excuses to keep writing stories unconnected to those titles.

Not what I'm saying you dipshit. I wouldn't ask if he was cool or a loser if I was trying to slander him or say it was bad that he created an original character. I'm asking what people think about his weird career path at Marvel.

That just makes it kind of sad though because... who is he writing these for?
I know a lot of people who love Thanos. I know a lot of people who love Thanos stories written by Starlin.
But I know so, so few people who actually read his last two Thanos graphic novel trilogies. Pretty much the only people who bring them up are powerlevel debating fuckers who post that one page out of context.