Thanos Week! Secret Origins: Thanos

Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Well, this is it! The big week when Avengers: Infinity War hits the big screen here in the U.S. Young Groove had an extremely vivid and memorable dream one night waaaay back in 1973 in which The Avengers and tons of other Marvel super-heroes fought aliens out to destroy earth. I'm thinkin' this movie might be as close to that dream as I'll ever see! Of course, the big hoopla is gonna surround the flick's major villain Thanos, Jim Starlin's college creation. Thanos has become (since the 90s, especially) THE villain to bring the Marvel Universe together in comicbook battle, so is it any wonder Hollywood is using all those Infinity Gauntlet/War/etc. comics as their inspiration? The question some movie-goers might still be asking is the same question most of my family members asked me when we saw the after-credits scene in The Avengers (2012): Who is that purple guy?

Well, we all know he'll be similar-yet-very-different from his comicbook counterpart, but still, seeing the condensed version of our favorite Mad Titan's origin from the legendary Avengers Annual #7 (August 1977) might be at least of some help. Besides, any excuse to see some far-out Jim Starlin/Joe Rubinstein art is A-Okay here in Groove City, right?

And, yep, this was the first time Thanos tried to get all'a those Infinity Gems together for his own pernicious plans!

Be back tomorrow for the comicbook scenes Ol' Groove HOPES will be in Avengers: Infinity War!

And Now for Something Completely Different: Badraven Reviews Jaws

Greetings, Groove-ophiles! I hope y'all will indulge Ol' Groove today as I give a better-late-than-never birthday present to my brother-in-law Steve Miller (not the rocker/joker) who turned 50 last Saturday. Steve is one of Ol' Groove's best buddies in the world, we share a love of movies (especially 80s, super-heroes, and Star Wars) and a bond as if we were blood brothers (especially when you get us together for a Monolopy game--which you really don't wanna do). Steve is also celebrating another milestone, the first year anniversary of his Badraven channel on YouTube, on which he reviews tons of movies, old and new, from the theater, from dvd, Blu-ray, vhs, beta, laserdisc, you name it. His passion for movies is very similar to yers trooly's passion for comics, and it really comes through on this review he did of Jaws (see, I did tie this post into the Groovy Age). I hope you dig it enough to visit Badraven's YouTube channel and tell him "way to go" and that Ol' Groove sent ya.



And yeah, Ol' Groove has a HUGE honkin' comicbook post for you tomorrow! See ya then!