Thanos Wins By Donny Cates

Thanos has reached the point the universe's mightiest beings dread most. Asked how they think everything ends, they give the same short answer: Thanos wins. Now that fear is turning into fact, and the Mad Titan is getting exactly what he set out to take.

He travels to the end of time, to the moment of his complete victory. Even there he is not satisfied with what he finds. The book follows him through both his greatest glory and his ultimate shame, so the triumph carries a cost for him as well as for everyone else.

The Silver Surfer features in the story, and a new cosmic Spirit of Vengeance, Ghost Rider, makes an appearance. The collection gathers Thanos (2016) issues 13 to 18 and Thanos Annual (2018) issue 1. It is a Marvel superhero comic told on a cosmic scale, with the fate of the whole universe in play from the first pages.

The question driving it is blunt. Thanos wins in whatever form that victory takes, and the book asks whether anyone or anything can survive it. Reading it means watching a villain finally get what he wants and discovering that the result still leaves him dissatisfied.