She names him Otto and brings him to civilization. Gilgamesh sends prostitute Bambi to tame the savage who's messing up his plans to develop over the rainforest. The other alien was not so lucky, ended up in the middle of nowhere, and has become the noble savage. The world suffers a series of Corporate Wars and Gilgamesh grows up to be the ruler of what's left of the world. This is exactly what you'd expect - a futuristic satire, retelling the epic of Gilgamesh - We have a dying alien race and it sends two aliens to Earth, but sadly the robot messes up and sends to male children instead of a male and female, thus dooming the species! The hero is found by a couple of Stoner hippies and named Gilgamesh after a poem Sunflower studded in college. The death was decided by fans, as DC Comics set up a hotline for readers to vote on as to whether or not Jason Todd should survive a potentially fatal situation. 1989), in which Jason Todd, the second of Batman's Robin sidekicks, was killed. 1988), and the storyline 'Batman: A Death in the Family', in Batman #426-429 (Dec. In the late 1980s, Starlin began working more for DC Comics, writing a number of Batman stories, including the four-issue miniseries Batman: The Cult (Aug.-Nov. The Death of Captain Marvel became the first graphic novel published by the company itself. When Marvel Comics wished to use the name of Captain Marvel for a new, different character, Starlin was given the rare opportunity to produce a one-shot story in which to kill off a main character. Starlin also drew 'The Secret of Skull River', inked by frequent collaborator Al Milgrom, for Savage Tales #5 (July 1974). Here he developed his ideas of God, death, and infinity, free of the restrictions of mainstream comics publishers' self-censorship arm, the Comics Code Authority. In the mid-1970s, Starlin contributed a cache of stories to the independently published science-fiction anthology Star Reach.

Death and suicide are recurring themes in Starlin's work: Personifications of Death appeared in his Captain Marvel series and in a fill-in story for Ghost Rider Warlock commits suicide by killing his future self and suicide is a theme in a story he plotted and drew for The Rampaging Hulk magazine. With a career dating back to the early 1970s, he is best known for 'cosmic' tales and space opera for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock and for creating or co-creating the Marvel characters Thanos and Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu.

'Jim' Starlin is an American comic book writer and artist.

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