Thanos Rising #3 (HERE BE SPOILERS!)

Wow.  Aaron builds this story beautifully, showing us Thanos as he explores the universe in the pursuit of the meaning of life.  He does so by both creating life and watching others destroy it and Aaron portrays Thanos as remarkably passive in this endeavor, a helpless victim of his own lack of emotions.  You feel how lost Thanos is, though how much he still seems like that little boy that we first saw trying to find meaning in the life that he's living.  Knowing who Thanos becomes, it makes sense when he decides that death is the only thing that really gives him joy when he's forced to kill his captain before the captain kills him.  Correspondingly, he also clearly has little choice but to come to the conclusion that the mysterious girl on Titan, now a woman, who has fueled his murderous impulses since they first presented themselves, is the only woman for him.  However, her insistence, shocking as it is, that she truly be the only woman by ordering him to murder all his previous partners and children makes you understand that the Thanos that we see at the end of this horrible road will, indeed, be different than that little boy that we first met.