Avengers: Infinity War: Revisiting The Black Order's Original Character Designs

Yesterday at the D23 Expo, Marvel Comics unveiled the Children of Thanos, also known as the Black Order, as they will appear in their on-screen debut in Avengers: Infinity War.

The live-action, or CGI, versions of the characters look great, but that's mostly because they remain so loyal to the original designs from the Black Order's comic book debut in the Marvel Comics 2013 event Infinity.

The Black Order was primarily designed by Jerome Opena, with some assists from fellow Marvel artist Jim Cheung and Infinity writer Jonathan Hickman. In the video above, Opena explains what his goals were with the character designs.

"Jonathan [Hickman] gave me a list of the characters and a description of each one," Opena says, "kind of like maybe the sizes and the genders and stuff like that. I just kind of went from there. I kind of take inspiration from I guess all sorts places: science fiction movies, video games, comic books even. I just try to incorporate them all and come up with something that's cool looking or interesting looking, at least."

You can take a look at Opena's designs for the original Black Order - Red Dwarf, Supergiant, Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, and Ebony Maw - plus Thanos' son Thane in the Infinity variant cover gallery below.

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Avengers: Infinity War brings the Guardians of the Galaxy together with the Avengers to face off against Thanos and his minions.

Avengers: Infinity War is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, from a screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, and stars Robert Downey Jr., Josh Brolin, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Hiddleston, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner, Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Olsen, Sebastian Stan, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Bettany, Samuel L. Jackson, Cobie Smulders, Benedict Wong, Zoe Saldana, Karen Gillan, Vin Diesel, Dave Bautista, Pom Klementieff, Scarlett Johansson, Benicio del Toro, Tom Holland, and Anthony Mackie.

Avengers: Infinity War opens May 4, 2018.

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