He stands before Warlock as an inevitable end, a promise that the hero’s search for inner peace and good works will come to nothing. Magus works as a villain precisely because he’s a rejection of all of Warlock’s hopes.
To his horror, Warlock learns that Magus is in fact Warlock from the future, having grown more powerful, but more cynical after years of soul-searching. Decked in a purple version of Warlock’s signature lightning-bolt uniform and sporting a white afro, Magus leads the Universal Church of Truth, an organization whose dogmatic ways lead to soul-crushing conquest. While Warlock certainly tangles with Thanos a lot, his true arch-enemy is a violet-hued madman called Magus. Subscribe Warlock, the Magus, and the Guardians of the Galaxy Warlock soon learns what basically everyone in the world now knows - that the Soul Gem is just one of six Infinity Gems, jewels that grant the user incredible abilities and may lead to horrible corruption. In Starlin’s hands, Warlock became less a Christ figure and more a spacefarer in search of inner-peace, conflicted by his association with the Soul Gem, which seems to have a vampiric mind of its own. Writer Jim Starlin picked up Warlock’s post-Counter-Earth adventures and started integrating him with characters he created elsewhere, including a minor Iron Man and Captain Marvel villain called Thanos. Thanos and the Infinity WatchĪs unlikely as Warlock’s religious turn certainly was, it set the stage for his third, and most enduring incarnation. Working alongside co-writer Mike Friedrich, Thomas did away with the psychedelic rock that Andrew Lloyd Weber brought to the Christ story and replaced it with muscles and capes, resulting in something even more strange. If that story sounds familiar, that’s because Thomas drew inspiration from the 1971 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. Despite his doubt, Warlock eventually sacrifices himself to stop Man-Beast, only to return a few days later and ascend back into space, leaving work for his followers. One of the High Evolutionary’s animal-human hybrids he calls “New Men,” the Man-Beast was a corrupting force, who brought evil and imperfection into creation.īut Warlock soon found himself questioning the High Evolutionary’s decisions, and his moral questions earned him a group of followers - disciples if you will. He did battle against the monsters threatening Counter-Earth, especially the Man-Beast. When the High Evolutionary found Him, he gave him a new costume, rechristened him Adam Warlock, and equipped him with the Soul Gem to defend Counter-Earth.ĭespite his fantastic costume, Warlock proved to be a reluctant hero. Him landed on Counter-Earth, a planetoid that ran opposite in orbit from our Earth, ruled by the High Evolutionary. He didn’t get the name Adam Warlock until 1971’s Marvel Premiere #1, when writer Roy Thomas and artist Gil Kane gave Him a new purpose.
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