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!

Comments

[melchar.livejournal.com]

So very agree. We keep the Simonson's segment of Thor separate from the rest of the collection = and in one of the comic storage boxes for comics we like to go back and read. A lot. It was -so- good. Thor talking around his name to the Migard serpent! And the bridge ... it actually made me -cry-.

[oneminutemonkey.livejournal.com]

On the bright side, if you're talking about the Marvel run of Godzilla, both that and the Dazzler run are available as Essentials...

(And I weep for your comics, I really do. I know the feeling. My basement's had flooding issues in the past.)

[shana.livejournal.com]

Glad it cheered you up.

[ross-teneyck.livejournal.com]

Speaking of Thor, what are your thoughts on the upcoming movie?

It strikes me that Thor will be a trickier one to pull off than many of the other Marvel titles they've turned into (variously, so-so to really good) movies recently. If you're doing the Marvel version of the God of Thunder, then you have to embrace a certain amount of cheese... but at the same time, your character has to have enough gravitas to be able to carry off the cheese factor because he is the freakin' God of Thunder. He's not some guy who happens to have superhuman strength and superhuman toughness and superhuman whatever, he actually is more than human. I'm afraid that's going to be a hard line for the movie to walk.

On the other hand, the Marvel movies have surprised me before, so perhaps they'll pull it off.

[midnightlurker.livejournal.com]

Ah, Walt Simonson. Almost everything he touches turns to gold (except the inexplicably bad World of Warcraft comic).

So many awesome moments.

"Nine steps the hero took, striding like a giant."

"He stood alone at Gjallerbru. And that answer is enough."

"Thor can no more throw bolts of subnuclear fire than a mountain can dance!" (A few panels later) And the mountains of Hel begin to dance...

"MY ARM! YOU'VE BROKEN MY ARM!" "There speaks the cunning Loki at last!"

(An Assistant Editors Month filler issue, iirc, also gave us "THE SON OF ODIN WILL FEIGN WEAKNESS NO LONGER!" ... "I landed in a place the gods forgot: New Jersey.")

As a side effect, Simonson's runs on Thor and then on FF caused me to despise Tom DeFalco with every fiber of my being. I hate him more than I hate Joey the Cheese and Geoff Johns combined. >.<#