1. Everything That Ever Happened With Adam Warlock
Ever since an Easter Egg in the Guardians Of The Galaxy film hinted at his future appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, theres been a renewed interest in Adam Warlock. Which is cool, because writer-artist Jim Starlins radical reinvention of the Stan Lee/Jack Kirby creation is the most bonkers story in Marvel history. Well, not quite Spideys Radioactive Death Semen bonkers, but close. Apparently inspired by repeat listens of the Jesus Christ Superstar Soundtrack (not a joke), writer Roy Thomas spun the cosmic hero into an intentionally messianic figure, and Jim Starlin went even further in crafting an impenetrable, time-is-a-flat-circle space opera. The Magus Saga saw Adam Warlock as a paranoid schizophrenic, still trying to protect Earth from The Living Tribunal and such whilst dealing with his own slowly collapsing mind in the face of an all-powerful villain called the Magus. After dozens of issues of fighting the villain, it turned out the Magus was none other than Warlock himself, travelled back from the future. In a basic sense, Adam Warlock is a character who explores the concepts of destiny and escaping your fate. In practise, it was an impossible-to-read mess of beautiful double-page spreads with an orange man with a Championship Wrestling belt crying in space.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
