User blog:Thanos6/The Marvel Trimurti

You probably know what the Trimurti is, even if you don't recognize the word. It's the Hindu trinity of Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva the destroyer. I like to classify Marvel creators in this system, too, based on my personal opinions of them.

Stan Lee, obviously, is one of the great creators, and embodies Brahma perhaps better than anyone else. Kirby and Ditko would also go here; same for Simon, Everett, and Burgos.

The preservers are those who try their best to link everything together and turn it into a coherent whole. That's not to say they don't create very wonderful and interesting things, but their prime passion could be seen to be the Marvel cosmos as a unified entity. Mark Gruenwald is probably the best embodiment of Vishnu, though Roy Thomas and Peter Sanderson are close behind.

And then you have the destroyers, the ones who let their own impulses run free and damn the consequences to anyone else's work, characters, or previous continuity. The unholy trinity of Joe Quesada, Brian Bendis, and Mark Millar are the prime embodiments of Shiva; destruction and transformation don't always have to be bad, but I think they are with these.

Thoughts? Thanos6 08:11, June 17, 2011 (UTC)