DC's Darkseid and Marvel's Thanos finally fought one another to determine who is the strongest among comic bo🎐oks' most nihilistic cosmic despots. 

Well, sort of...

, the majority of which takes place on DC's Earth-8, itself an analog of the Marvel Universe featuring an Avengers-like team called the Retaliators. 

In scenes drawn by artists Brandon Peterson, Andrei Bressan,🌃 and Tom Derenick, the occasion allows Thanos/Tartarus to face off aga๊inst Darkseid, the antagonist of what Williamson is calling the 'Infinite Frontier saga.'

For more casual fans, particularly fans who have gotten to know the characters through Thanos' appearances in MCU films and Darkseid in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Zack Snyder's Justice League, yes, the cha🃏racter's similarities aren'🐻t entirely coincidental.

Thanos creator Jim Starlin acknowledges being inspired by Jack Kirby's New 🎃Gods characters including Darkseid when creating Thanos in the early '70s, but originally designed him to appear more like the Kirby character Metron. Only after then Marvel editor-in-chief Roy Thomas ," that Thanos took on a more Darkseid-like appearance.

Bu꧃t the characters share more than just a similar look these days. Both have evolved to share a similar nihilistic view of life in the universe and both are always seeking ultimate power to enact their plans. 

The characters met once in 1996's crossover Marvel Comics Versus ꦐDC #2 and Marvel and DC even mashed up the characters as Thanoseid in its '96-'97 companion event 𝓰Amalgam.

So while the traditional Marvel and DC rivalry i♑s more or less dormant these days, Williamson and Culver took 🐭it upon themselves to spark it up just a little and to determine the classic comic book shop debate - 'Who is stronger: Thanos or Darkseid?'

Well, Justice League Incarnate is a DC title, so you probably already ဣknow how this winds up, but nevertheless...

Spoilers ahead for Justice League Incarnate #1...

First of🐟 all, to make be certain t📖here is no doubt DC's Tartarus is Thanos, let's look at his resume. 

As you saw above,🎉 Tartarus thinks of himself as "inevitable," 🐬which was Thanos' tag line in Avengers: Endgame. 

He also makes it clear he considers his mission the Et🌄ernity Conquest, and if that reminds you of Thanos' , you're right t൩here with us...

Thanos is also forever preoccupied with collecting the Infinity Gauntlet, featuring the six Infinity Gems, which evolved into the Infinity🅷 Stones in the MCU. Tartarus is powered by armor enhanced by the Eight Rings of the Ancient Spectrum - a nod to DC's Green Lantern mythos but spun into an analog of Marvel's Infinity Gauntlet.&n🍒bsp;

So with Tartarus'ꦡ Thanos credentials confirmed, ho𝓀w'd the fight go?

First of all, Williamson and Culver establish that Tartarus/Thanos and Darkseid are aware of each other's existence, particularly relevant as these days both comic book publishers are 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:preoccupied wi😼th the multiverse concep💧t. 

But hey, this is a DC 🅘book, so it doesn't take long for Darkseid to inform his old rival that he's recently leveled up, and as a result of the events of all his DC incarnations ov🍎er the decades have been absorbed into one sort-of uber-Darkseid.

In a meta-moment and something of a mirror of their 1996 meeting, Darkseid even admi😼ts that Tartarus/Thanos is something of a homage/analog of himself, which could be something of an acknowledgment of Thanos' origins and a little bit of a humblebrag.

But the writers waste little time getti♔ng to the inevitab൩le end and does so definitively and unceremoniously...

The writers e🌄ven add a little bit of insult to grave injury by having Darkseid break Tartarus' neck with a  prominent "Snap," Thanos's signature MCU legacy. 

You did Thanos dirty, Joshua Wi♛lliamson and Dennis Culver. 

So there y🧸ou have it. This new powered-up Darkseid 🦄can kick Thanos' ass in the fight, at least in a DC comic book anyway. 

Marvel has their multiverse-centric title coming up in December, so maybe we canꦚ get ro🥃und two, and the House of Idea's take on the battle in 2022.

Thanos vs. Darkseid sounds like a dream match that'll never happen - but it actually did, back in 1996. Read our story on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Thanos vs. Darkseid in the DC vs Marvel event.