I just thought it was really fun and absurd, and some stuff that no one had ever done, but it was also, “When will I get a chance to actually do this? Even if Marvel hires me, they're not going to let me create my own weird, solo title.” Then Jordan D White called and offered me Thanos. The acronym for that was going to be GRHoG, which is dope. At the time I was going to pitch it as a book titled Ghost Rider: Herald of Galactus. Every writer gets attached to an idea and starts building it out in their head even if it's never going to go anywhere. And I just started thinking about the cosmic Ghost Rider.īefore Thanos ever happened I started building this title in my head. The fact that Frank Castle is the comic relief is very telling of how dark this story is. So I was going to need something to break it all up. I knew that a story that had two Thanoses was going to need some brevity. It turns out, nope! I was able to pull it off.Īs for the cosmic of it all? I don't really know where that came from. I assumed someone might have done it, or by the time I ended up in position to do that securely surely someone would have gotten there before me. I think that would be really fun.” I remember Mark saying, “That's such a good idea, it makes me worry that it hasn't already been done.” I remember agreeing with Mark. I said, “I'd like to make Frank Castle the Rider. When I first started talking to Marvel, back before I had ever written anything for them and we were just kind of feeling the waters out, Mark Paniccia and I had an e-mail conversation where I mentioned it to him. He's been all these other super rad things like a Frankenstein's monster, but never the Rider. I thought it was crazy that nobody had ever made Frank Castle into the Rider simply because, who loves vengeance more than Frank? The guy is primed to be the Ghost Rider. What inspired the creation of this character? And what made you decide on the Punisher for the person he used to be?ĮXCLUSIVE: Art from Thanos #16 by Geoff Shaw and colorist Antonio Fabelaĭonny Cates: The cosmic Ghost Rider was an idea that I came up with around seven years ago. ![]() ![]() It's also a reality that the present day Thanos, who was brought forward in time to aid his future self, finds detestable.ĬBR spoke with Cates about the origin and true identity of the cosmic Ghost Rider, why “winning” is one of the worst things that can happen to Thanos, the twisted cosmic action that will come in future issues of this arc, and his plans for April's Thanos Annual #1.ĬBR: In Thanos #15 you revealed that the cosmic powered Ghost Rider working for the future Thanos used to be Frank Castle. It's a haunting world full of familiar Marvel characters transformed into powerful and tragic new identities like the Cosmic Ghost Rider and the Fallen one. In the current “Thanos Wins” arc, writer Donny Cates and artist Geoff Shaw are showing what a dark future where the title character reigns supreme over the universe would look like. ![]() RELATED: Thanos’ Cosmic Ghost Rider Is Revealed, And He’s Not Who You Think Fortunately, the heroes of the Marvel U have been able to foil his schemes, but there will come a day when Thanos' relentless drive to conquer and murder proves too much, even for them. The Mad Titan known as Thanos has demonstrated this time and time again, launching countless schemes to murder and subjugate literally all life in the universe in hopes of catching favor with his beloved Death. Love can make people do extraordinary and terrible things, and when you're a godlike being enamored with the abstract entity that personifies Death in the Marvel Universe, well, the terrible things you're willing to do for love rise to a whole other level.
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