Jim Starlin

You don't have to be a religious person to be affected by religion or a religious movement.

I like my characters to go through some changes during a story arc.

My well-meaning parents decided to send me to a Catholic grade school to get a better education than I probably would have received at the local public school. They had no way of knowing that the school nuns, who were the majority of the teachers at this particular parochial school, were right-wing, card-carrying John Birch Society members.

As time went on, Thanos just sort of grew organically on his own.

It's a real honor to have my stories up on the big silver screen, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. It's great fun flying out to L.A. for premieres and meeting all the actors and directors.

My only surprise when I saw Thanos up on the screen was how violet he was. I always saw his exposed hide as being more grayish violet.

Thanos and Adam Warlock are two of a kind because they're both sort of out of the norm: out of the circle of life and death that falls on top of everyone else. Both have had multiple deaths and resurrections, and they always seem to get pulled in as key players for cosmic events.

Most of my work is science fiction, with many a spaceship but few cars.

Thanos was the first character I ever created professionally. He's always been the baby I return to whenever I work with Marvel.

It's nice to see my work recognized as being worth something beyond the printed page, and it was very cool seeing Thanos up on the big screen.

The downside of word processing - it's quite possible to never end a work-in-progress.