SQUEEE!

[seawasp]

To my Loyal Lieutenant, who apparently read my whinging and decided to send me a pick-me-up. I just got the first volume of the Walt Simonson "The Mighty THOR" comic collection.

Simonson's run on Thor DEFINED the character for me, and included what may just be the single most CMoA (CROWNING MOMENT of AWESOME) in all comicdom in the duel between Thor and Jormungandr. Or maybe in the Last Stand of the Executioner. Or maybe... Hell, there's so many CMoAs in the Simonson run of Thor!

I had the original comics. They, along with a number of my other comic acquisitions (my entire run of Dazzler, the Godzilla comics, older X-books, Spider-Man, New Teen Titans, etc.) were destroyed in two floods in two different houses.

Thanks, Shana!

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[midnightlurker.livejournal.com]

He came onto Thor immediately after Simonson left, and quickly set about demolishing EVERYTHING Simonson had done. With what I can only describe as malicious glee.

Then, a few years later, he did exactly the same thing with Simonson's FF.

And since he was Marvel's EIC at the time, there was nothing to be done about it.

(It's one thing, of course, to set out to make your own stamp on a series. But DeFalco's entire design philosophy appears to be this: "I, and I alone, have the divine right to alter anything Lee and Kirby did, so the first thing I have to do is tear everything everyone else wrote since they left apart and set things back to their standard. Then I'll try to imitate L&K and fail miserably."

[seawasp]

Hmm. My brain appears to have simply done the obvious and correct thing and blotted out any memory of post-Simonson Thor.

What, did he return Thor to being Donald Blake, reinstate the five-minute timer, erase Beta-Ray Bill, etc?

No, I'm not looking at Wiki, it would probably tell me TOO much.

[midnightlurker.livejournal.com]

Actually, he linked Thor up to someone else, a guy named Eric Masterson. There was also a very confusing subplot about Donald Blake possibly being an independently-existing human who'd been shunted off to the side by Odin to make room for Thor, so he'd been in stasis ever since that fight against the Stone Men from Saturn.

The very first thing DeFalco did, of course, was shave the beard. :P

There were rather silly plots with the Celestials and the Egyptian gods, the return of Odin and a complete reset of the Asgardian political situation (and yes, Simonson's Ragnarok was just another fake, move along, nothing to see here).

...All that was annoying, but it was his FF run that really clinched it. No, Alicia Masters can't possibly have fallen in love with and married Johnny Storm; she's been a Skrull impersonator ever since Secret Wars, and never mind all the freaking THOUGHT BALLOONS that tell us otherwise!