Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, Black Dwarf, Ebony Maw and Black Swan are Thanos’ five dreadlords – The Black Order. Awwww, sooo metal y’all! They tough, they hit stuff, they… boring. There wasn’t much to their “characters” when Jonathan Hickman was writing them and there ain’t much more added to them by Derek Landy!
There’s an evil space emperor (is there any other kind?) that the gang are tasked to kill – guess whether they do? So the book is one set of one-dimensional strong alien dudes against another, over and over, until the pages are all used up. Nova Centurion Rich Ryder shows up and goes all Red Lantern-y for no real reason.
Some of the issues are told from the perspective of the various members of the group though all they really show is how uninteresting they actually are (Black Dwarf knows poetry – whaaat the scary big dude has a sensitive side?!1… zzz…).
The Boremasters of Thanos are fine as the stand-in bad guys the good guys gotta punch but put them in the spotlight and you see there’s nothing to them. What an utterly dreary and pointless comic!
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