#Pip the Troll

[pat1dee]

What If #49

May 1993

Cover by Scott Clark and Kevin West

[phantastragoria]

The Guardians of the Galaxy are throwing a little party (they're drinking hot cocoa don't worry) to welcome in the new year :) I wish the rest of you a very happy new year!

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

This book was mostly just a throwdown, but at the end, Adam, who is absolutely getting a bit too high and mighty, throws his hat in the ring... and speaking of hats, cowboy Pip is aces.

[why-i-love-comics]

Warlock: Rebirth #1 - "Better Half" (2023)

written by Ron Marz art by Ron Lim, Don Ho, & Romulo Fajardo, Jr.

[guybracha]

Marvel Ai Fanart - part 3

Adam Warlock, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Magneto, Nightcrawler, Nick Fury, Storm, She-hulk, Quicksilver, Professor X, Wolverine, Thanos, Star-Lord, and Pip the Troll

made all with Midjourney

Complete Gallery

[splooosh]

“Clutch”

Jim Starlin

[dinosaurgiantpenny]

[thena0315]

No Eternals 2, but I really want to know what happens next with the Eternals

Really am hoping we get an answer by Avengers Doomsday & Secret Wars

I REALLY HATE CLIFFHANGERS

[cantsayidont]

December 1977. Given how much Marvel has since pushed Adam Warlock, Thanos, and the Infinity Gems, it's somewhat ironic that Jim Starlin's original Warlock series was rather ignominiously canceled before the story was complete, leaving the conclusion to play out in THE AVENGERS Annual #7 and MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE Annual #2 in the fall of 1977, both magnificently illustrated by Starlin and Joe Rubinstein. Continuing the story into the latter Annual required Starlin to frame his finale as, improbably, a Thing/Spider-Man team-up, but it's Mar-Vell (whose series Starlin had also written and drawn for a while) who delivers the full-page eulogy for Adam Warlock, a minor Kirby character whom Roy Thomas and Starlin had transformed into a tortured cosmic figure, driven by truly existential angst.

Given that Thanos' plot in this story had involved using the combined power of the six Infinity Gems (here still called "Soul Gems") to blow "every star out of the heavens," leaving Adam's vampiric Soul Gem just lying on his grave seems a trifle irresponsible, but at this juncture, Warlock is dead, Thanos has been reduced to a literal monument to his own folly, and none of the survivors understands the full power of the gems. Also, they don't know that the souls of Adam Warlock, Gamora, and Pip the Troll, taken by the Gem before their deaths, now reside in the idyllic landscape of Soul World.

Starlin would subsequently write the end of Mar-Vell in the memorable THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN MARVEL graphic novel in 1982, which returned Thanos as a kind of psychopomp. Alas, Thanos subsequently became too commercially important a villain (in the comics and later in the dreary live-action movies) to ever stay dead or truly learn from his mistakes.

[burningfudge]

“I can think of too many good reasons to keep you awake.” Stephen, please 😩

Thanos has literally killed half of the universe and yet, they’re two seconds away from jumping each other. These two are so shameless lol.

Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme (1988) #32

[adamwarlock]

Heard you were talking shit

[doctorofmagic]

He's just misunderstood :(

Warlock: Rebirth #2 (2023)

[merrymarvelite]

Cover of the Day: Warlock #15 (November, 1976) Art by Jim Starlin & Danny Crespi

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

it takes Mephisto absolutely 0 effort to just play Norrin like a fiddle and turn him after the very same people who just went out of their way to fight for him...

[why-i-love-comics]

Warlock: Rebirth #1 - "Better Half" (2023)

written by Ron Marz art by Ron Lim, Don Ho, & Romulo Fajardo, Jr.

[thanos-the-dad-titan]