Ebony Maw doesn’t receive much fleshing-out in this book, but I’m sure Landy has something in mind for the most prominently-featured Black Order member from Avengers: Infinity War. Corvus is strangely neurotic, Proxima Midnight just enjoys killing but adores Corvus, Black Dwarf is surprisingly soft-spoken and polite, and Black Swan is the cooky goth girl. “Charming” is not a word I expected to use in describing The Black Order #1, but it is an apt descriptor. He wants to be funny, and it is one of the most oddly charming things I’ve seen in a comic in recent months. Corvus Glaive is afraid that, in his career as leader of the Black Order and endless path of mayhem across the universe, he has never developed a personality. The first line spoken aloud by Corvus Glaive asks Proxima Midnight if he is funny. Well, Derek Landy, wisely, has crafted personalities for the Black Order, and it adds a lot of flavor to what could have easily been a misfire of a comic. Their visual designs are good, but it never seemed to be Jonathan Hickman or any subsequent writer’s goal to give them distinct identities.

How does one write a story centering on Thanos’ Black Order? In all of their appearances, the Black Order, also known as the Cull Obsidian, has been shown to be a unanimously brutal and silent crew with little personality beyond viciousness and evil itself. The Black Order #1 cover by Philip Tan and Peter Steigerwald Attican gathers his armies and most deranged warriors to plan a response to the Black Order’s violence. The Order has sacked three of the empire’s planets and is drawing the attention of Emperor Attican, a famously mad ruler. This has now brought the Black Order into conflict with Sinnarian Empire. After their conflict with the Avengers, they were set loose back into the cosmos to do the bidding of the Grandmaster wherever he pleased. The Black Order has been resurrected by the Grandmaster for his game with the Challenger.

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