I say thee...discuss!!
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Thor will kick Sentry's ass! Or at least he better.Dr. Wade Fucking McNasty wrote:I'm surprised he didn't have one. Nice work BT.
I wonder what the future holds for him. I know JMS wasn't happy with the idea of including Thor in Dark Reign and I wonder if he was unhappy with the fact that he felt it was too early or the direction Marvel wanted to take him. Also, the current road their taking Thor down, with him being afraid of his power (or as I like to call it, Sentry Syndrome (or should I call it Ichigo Syndrome?)), I hope they don't use this as a means to scale him back severely (of course they will then again, I understand). In any case, I'm waiting to see what's in store for Thor (in other words, I'm eagerly awaiting Thor going to town on Sentry ).
Bigtymin504 wrote:Thor will kick Sentry's ass! Or at least he better.Dr. Wade Fucking McNasty wrote:I'm surprised he didn't have one. Nice work BT.
I wonder what the future holds for him. I know JMS wasn't happy with the idea of including Thor in Dark Reign and I wonder if he was unhappy with the fact that he felt it was too early or the direction Marvel wanted to take him. Also, the current road their taking Thor down, with him being afraid of his power (or as I like to call it, Sentry Syndrome (or should I call it Ichigo Syndrome?)), I hope they don't use this as a means to scale him back severely (of course they will then again, I understand). In any case, I'm waiting to see what's in store for Thor (in other words, I'm eagerly awaiting Thor going to town on Sentry ).
But yeah I can't wait to see how JMS's epic run ends. He's built this for so long and its all been coming to a head the last couple issues. He said he's leaving because according to him, he's not "good with crossovers" and such. I wish he would stick around, but what can ya do. Thor's been isolated in his own corner for awhile now, so I'm glad Marvel is finally bringing him back into the mix of the greater MU..he is an original Avenger after all. Woulda been nice to have JMS on board too, but hopefully someone equally as great takes over the book for the long haul.
Fresh03 wrote:Oh what a sad day November 25th will be, JMS' run is over.
Although, I can't think of a better guy to take the reigns right now that Keiron Gillen, the man has gods down.
Yeah Frac's Thor: Ages of Thunder stuff was awesome!Dr. Wade Fucking McNasty wrote:Him and Matt fraction. He can write Thor well (at least miniseries). Anything to get him away from X-men.
my comic shop would have the same mistake as your but i told him is the end of the run so he ordered a bunch of them.LOOSECANNON wrote:Thor: Defining Moments Giant-Size #1
So I get to my LCS pretty early (for me anyway, around 4 pm) and my vendor's got all this week's comics laid out on the counter. I see one, count it--one, Thor one-shot. I ask why only one? He said he didn't order many, as not too many order one-shots compared to the regular run. Don't people actually READ the solicits before ordering books or do they just mark them down as they check off the list? Because if they would've seen the word Straczynski near the title, they would've thought otherwise to pass this one up.
In hindsight, maybe it's no big deal. Thor has easily been my favorite Marvel book of 2008-2009, maybe only challenged by PAD's brilliant X-Factor run. It's unfortunate that circumstances call for JMS's leave from this ever-brilliant run due to editorial differences (hello Seige!), and it's even more unfortunate that he's not able to go out with a bang. So, no, this Giant-Size book is only 22 pages; Thor's hardly in it; only one plotline is closed (maybe); and the ending has a lot of meaning, frankly, from a symbolic standpoint. We're then left with a preview of the next book and a reprint of Thor's first appearance.
The best part? It's still JMS. It's still stellar writing: it contains at least two awesome battle sequences and advances the plot ever-so-soundly. It's just not Giant-Sized, that's all.
3.5/5 Doombots - JMS' last Thor ish is worth buying. Duh.
Bigtymin504 wrote:Thor #604
Well Kieron Gillen TOTALLY eased my concerns about JMS's departure on this book. This issue was just damn good! Gillen picked up right where JMS left off, and I feel like there wasn't any dip in quality at all. I loved seeing Balder take control as King, and finally put Loki in his place. But Loki, being himself, is still playing mind games and acting like he's done nothing wrong. His mischief never ends. Plus it was cool to see the Norse God of War, Týr make an appearance. I also really liked Dr. Blake's conversation with Reed, should be interesting what role he plays in the coming issues. Then the final sequence with Balder and company storming Castle Doom was awesome...looks like Doom will be getting a good beatdown courtesy the God of Thunder!
Another thing I really liked was Gillen's dialogue. Much like JMS, he's using very regal Middle Earth-like speech so that's good. Plus, Billy Tan's art was some of his best here, especially the first sequence with Doom and Kelda. Overall very impressive stuff from the new creative team.
I agree with you about falling short. I thought it had the classic feel of a writer finishing their run earlier than planned. I feel like maybe JMS had much more planned overall than this. Anyway, he's certainly left heaps of plot threads for the new team to run with. I'm just a little disappointed in the preview for next issue that their first act is to kill off Kelda.shiky800 wrote:
i have to say this issue fell a little short for me. i thought there would have been a little more of an ending to the story with loki. but i am happy the next team is continuing the story
Aussiemandias wrote:I agree with you about falling short. I thought it had the classic feel of a writer finishing their run earlier than planned. I feel like maybe JMS had much more planned overall than this. Anyway, he's certainly left heaps of plot threads for the new team to run with. I'm just a little disappointed in the preview for next issue that their first act is to kill off Kelda.shiky800 wrote:
i have to say this issue fell a little short for me. i thought there would have been a little more of an ending to the story with loki. but i am happy the next team is continuing the story
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