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Teenage Fansub posted:Unless you need to see the origins of main baddie Malekith, just Jason Aaron's Thor. Thanks. I've always wanted to read more Thor. If I did want a proper introduction to Malekith, where should I look?
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He was first in Walt Simonson's run, which is great, but not necessary for this storyline. Also, Thor: The Dark World 
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El Tortuga posted:Thanks. I've always wanted to read more Thor. If I did want a proper introduction to Malekith, where should I look? If you want more Thor in general, I can't recommend the Walt Simonson run highly enough.
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El Tortuga posted:Thanks. I've always wanted to read more Thor. If I did want a proper introduction to Malekith, where should I look? Jason Aaron does a fine job in Thor: God of Thunder. I haven’t read Simonson’s run, but I didn’t feel like I was missing much.
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Open Marriage Night posted:Jason Aaron does a fine job in Thor: God of Thunder. I haven’t read Simonson’s run, but I didn’t feel like I was missing much. Only the best Thor storied ever. Aaron id giving Simson a run for his money though.
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Skwirl posted:If you want more Thor in general, I can't recommend the Walt Simonson run highly enough. I also think that it's the best of the Kirby / Lee stuff, better than Fantastic Four. Tales of Asgard in particular is superb. It was backup material that ran in Thor in those early years, really getting going in Journey into Mystery #117.
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Early Thor doesn't have much going on for it (lots of Donald Blake doing some Peter Parker agonising over Jane Foster because "How could she ever love... A CRIPPLE?!") but it improves enormously as Kirby starts taking more of the lead on it, which I think begins with Tales of Asgard. I believe Kirby's idea was that they would do Ragnarok and then that would be it for Thor, but Lee was keen to keep Thor going and around and vetoed it. So when Kirby went to DC and started off New Gods with that "THERE CAME A TIME WHEN THE OLD GODS DIED!" splash page, he was repurposing art he'd drawn for a Thor Ragnarok storyline which he hadn't gotten to use, so the "Old Gods" of the DC universe are implicitly the Marvel version of the Asgardians.  Something to that effect anyway.
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Open Marriage Night posted:Jason Aaron does a fine job in Thor: God of Thunder. I haven’t read Simonson’s run, but I didn’t feel like I was missing much. Nah, you're missing a lot. Simonson's Thor is on a lot of people's 'best run of comics ever' lists for a reason. Dawgstar fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Dec 3, 2018 |
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Dec 3, 2018 14:02
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There's one weakish spot in Simonson's run on Thor (the stuff with Justice Peace and Zaniac - evidently he'd been reading a bunch of 2000 AD) but it's only weak in comparison to the rest of it.
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Didn't Simonson do that bonkers mashup of RoboCop vs Terminators? I seem to remember Alex strapping into a rocket or a nuke and blowing everything to kingdom come. My inner 12 year old would love to see an R rated movie of that.
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Dawgstar posted:Nah, you're missing a lot. Simonson's Thor is on a lot of people's 'best run of comics ever' lists for a reason. Yes, but it isn’t necessary to understand what’s going on in Aaron’s run.
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True but it should be required reading.
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Jiro posted:Didn't Simonson do that bonkers mashup of RoboCop vs Terminators? I seem to remember Alex strapping into a rocket or a nuke and blowing everything to kingdom come. That comic ruled and the twist that robocop was the basis for skynet or the terminators ruled.
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Jiro posted:Didn't Simonson do that bonkers mashup of RoboCop vs Terminators? I seem to remember Alex strapping into a rocket or a nuke and blowing everything to kingdom come. Frank Miller wrote it (although don't let this stop you, as it's amazing and worth the three dollars to put it together in your local dollar bin), and Walt did the art. Rhyno posted:True but it should be required reading. Yeah. If you like Thor, you're doing yourself a bit of a disservice not reading it.
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I'd love to know what makes Marvel think the market is hungry for two Conan books.
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Dark Horse did that sometimes as well. They'd have a regular Conan and a King Conan going at the same time. Not at all times, but we'll see how it works out for Marvel.
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I'm grabbing Conan by Duggan, it may, or may not be good but I'm willing to try.
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twistedmentat posted:I'm grabbing Conan by Duggan, it may, or may not be good but I'm willing to try. Isn't Mahmud Asrar on it? It'll at least be pretty.
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Marvel's go to strategy is to publish as much of everything as they can, but at least the Conan books have some good looking creative teams announced.
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Aaron is doing one of them, right? He seems like a guy who has probably had an entire shelf of Conans next to his writing desk for the past 30 years.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Aaron is doing one of them, right? He seems like a guy who has probably had an entire shelf of Conans next to his writing desk for the past 30 years. Not sure what in the world would make you think that. https://twitter.com/jasonaaron/status/1033023560426708992
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aaron seems like the kind of guy to have a real battle axe hanging on his wall too so i wouldnt want to fight him over conan
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I haven't checked but good money says they're remastering the original series for re-release as well.
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Rhyno posted:I haven't checked but good money says they're remastering the original series for re-release as well. Didn't dark horse already do a lot of this?
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Vince MechMahon posted:Didn't dark horse already do a lot of this? Marvel did it first back in the 90's. Why not do it again? Look how they handled Miracleman.
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Just wondering, are there any runs on Thor that isn’t loving badass?
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The man called M posted:Just wondering, are there any runs on Thor that isn’t loving badass? Most of them really. Like a good modern run is great, but you can instantly bring any character back to Earth by showing what they were doing in the 90s.
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Most Thor runs have at least one cool thing going for them. Even the Jurgens Thor had that one great story where he fights Thanos and Mangog even if a lot of the rest of it is just okay.
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There's plenty of bad Thor. Like pretty much everything post Simonson until 1997.
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I know some people have a soft spot for Tom deFalco's run but as far as I'm concerned its excruciatingly boring and irritating.
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Archyduchess posted:I know some people have a soft spot for Tom deFalco's run but as far as I'm concerned its excruciatingly boring and irritating. Well, it did give us Thunderstrike.
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There's an omnibus with the four Loeb/Sale color books - thoughts? I like Long Halloween as a fun Batman greatest hits, thought Dark Victory was bad, and was eh on Hush. But maybe these are good?
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Archyduchess posted:I know some people have a soft spot for Tom deFalco's run but as far as I'm concerned its excruciatingly boring and irritating. I'm one of those. While by no means would I call it good, there's some stuff I can admire in the attempt like trying to make Code: Blue a thing and it's got a Thor/Juggernaut fight which is always fun. He also did a deep dive of the Wrecking Crew, sort of. You can also tell it was the 90's as Ghost Rider gets used a lot at one point.
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Rhyno posted:There's plenty of bad Thor. Like pretty much everything post Simonson until 1997. When did Ellis write it? Is it good? How's his Excalibur?
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He wrote 4 issues in 1994 or 1995 and it's awful.
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Zachack posted:There's an omnibus with the four Loeb/Sale color books - thoughts? I like Long Halloween as a fun Batman greatest hits, thought Dark Victory was bad, and was eh on Hush. But maybe these are good? I've only read Spider-Man Blue and Hulk Grey, but they were both great.
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Daredevil: Yellow is very good too. There’s a Fantastic Four appearance in there that’ll make you wish that team did a book about them. Heard Captain America: White was crap, but 3/4 ain’t bad. They’re sweet love stories, and Tim Sale is in top form.
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^burtle posted:I'd love to know what makes Marvel think the market is hungry for two Conan books. They remembered when they had Conan and had two books running at the same time. Conan was the all ages and Savage was the one that had more violence and sex
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