Q: "What do you call a 6' 6" fighting-mad bullfrog?"
A: "Sir!"
SUMMARY: Without Bifrost in place, it takes the "Thunder Frog" days to cross the cosmic storms which rage between the realms of Midgard and Asgard. Loki confers with…"
"Puddlegulp makes a reference to the Steelers vs. the Rams in Superbowl XIV (Huh?!)
Oh, crap! I just realized I neglected to post the payoff to this setup. It is revealed before Thor takes his leave that Puddlegulp was once a man who got on the bad…"
"I was on a decade long break from comics when Walt Simonson produced this classic run of Thor. I began catching up twenty years after the fact reading the stories as I found them through back issues and various collections. My perception of the…"
SUMMARY: Thor leaps across the backs and snouts of the alligators toward the Piper and purposefully slams into him hard enough to cause him to drop his flute. Now out of his control, the gators rush to attack the Piper. Thor grabs the…"
In Asgard, preparations of the Great Althing are underway. Word has gone out far and wide, but where is Thor? His mission to Midgard shouldn't have taken this long. Beta Ray Bill appears, but still not thor as the day grows nearer.
On …"
"Loved this story. Kurse is at once terrifying and tragic. Using Power Pack as guest stars is very difficult, but they pulled it off perfectly here.And Walt Simonson's Thor, here as ever, is at once very human and very heroic. And following with…"
I liked the original Secret Wars "maxi-series." (I'll cop to that.) At the time, company-wide crossover series such as Secret Wars and Crisis on Infinite Earths were new and exciting. It is only in subsequent years I have come to see…"
Without saying a word. Balder hurls the Sword of Frey to Agnar, who understands that he is to hold it in trust and use to to get the word to Asgard about the Frost giants' impending invasion. Utgard-Loki continues to use…"
Agnar quickly discovers that the corpse is not Balder after all, but rather Rattusk wearing Balder's cloak. From the footprints, Agnar determines that Balder must have given him his cloak for some reason, and he can quess why.…"
Today we move away from Thor to cover the rest of the Balder the Brave limited series. In order to help speed the discussion along, I am gong to try to cover the three remaining issue in one day.
The issue opens with Karnilla…"
"Yes, Thor 362 is a another dark story - it does take place in Hel after all. Still, the visuals of Asgardians in battle with the weapons of Midgard is oddly satisfying.
And I agree wholeheartedly with the comments regarding John Workman. He makes a…"
Thank goodness for the scene on Asgard with Volstagg to help alleviate the dark tones of the main storyline.
You won't find any of that in #363, Kevin; it's pretty relentless from start to finish!
It opens with Thor and the Einherjar…"
"Workman has long been one of my favorite letterers. I actually bought one book -- Turf, by Jonathan Ross and Jean Paul Leon, because he lettered it! True, Leon's art was gorgeous, but I wasn't familiar with Ross, and even though I liked the premise…"
"Before continuing on to the next summary, I would like to pause briefly to sing the praises of Thor letterer John Workman. In addition to his distinctive style of lettering sound effects, his balloon placement works with the art to flawlessly lead…"
"I have heard that Walt Simonson has kept all of his returned original art pages over the years, making things such as "Artist's Editions" relatively easy to compile."
"Thank goodness for the scene on Asgard with Volstagg to help alleviate the dark tones of the main storyline.
This is one of the issues featured in Walt Simonson's Mighty Thor: The Artist Edition from IDW."
Hello Mr. Jackson. You offer an interesting idea of "the four just men" as maybe-inspiration of the Joker's crimes in Batman #1. So, what do you think, where does that pirating-radio-to-send-threat-idea in 1940 comes from? Thank you very much
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