Will.S
09-17-2005, 02:47 AM
Breakdown:
As the comic starts we're right in the middle of a battle between Thor and Absorbing man. Beautiful splash pages and some great action in this fight and to no surprise, Thor rips him a new one before going back to his human guise as Donald Blake.
Donald being the noble guy he is, tries to save as many as he can who were caught in the wake of his alter ego's fight to make up for all the collateral damage. He goes back to the hospital and discusses with Jane Foster all this crap about genetics and religion. Donald goes to sleep thinking about what Jane was talking about and slips into a nightmare. We see grim scene of hung man rocking back and forth and another shocking picture of The Warriors Three's skulls atop wooden stakes.
This unsettles Donald and he turns back into Thor to head to Asgard. There he meets up with Heimdall and is shocked to find out that Fandral, Hogun and Volstagg are accussed of murder. Flashback to the incident, apparently they speared a shapeshifting giant and killed him by accident which explains why they're being prosecuted.
Thor angered, wants to take action but instead Odin tells Thor to calm his ass down. The Giant laughs it off and says that his son was an idiot for pretending to be a mystical sea creature out in the open but since Thor was in defense of The Warriors Three he must now accept the challenge alongside them. The Giant pretty much gives them an epic fetch quest but the catch is Thor can't use his hammer....hmm. Knowing that they have a big adventure ahead of them they have a bit of fun before they go off into the sunset for their first item.
My review:
Rock solid first issue. I'm really interested to see how Thor gets by all of the challenges without the use of Mjolnir. That's going to create some extra effort on his behalf as well as his fellow brothers in arms. The book also seems to follow the Earth Mightiest Heroes fashion of using the past to create new stories that fit into continuity nicely.
I think the whole story the Giant puts tells Odin is fishy though. We're told that Holth (the son giant) never reverted back and sank, he also never let out a peep when he was hit so it seems like a fake story that works in favor of the Giant so that he can obtain these items of power with no effort needed.
Anyway I got a kick out of the opening battle and Scott Kolins kicks ass. It's easily as good as his EMH/Marvel Team-Up work if not better. Tons of detail and a great storyteller using atmosphere.
So far the title is off to a good start as a fun Thor book in the absense of an ongoing title.
As the comic starts we're right in the middle of a battle between Thor and Absorbing man. Beautiful splash pages and some great action in this fight and to no surprise, Thor rips him a new one before going back to his human guise as Donald Blake.
Donald being the noble guy he is, tries to save as many as he can who were caught in the wake of his alter ego's fight to make up for all the collateral damage. He goes back to the hospital and discusses with Jane Foster all this crap about genetics and religion. Donald goes to sleep thinking about what Jane was talking about and slips into a nightmare. We see grim scene of hung man rocking back and forth and another shocking picture of The Warriors Three's skulls atop wooden stakes.
This unsettles Donald and he turns back into Thor to head to Asgard. There he meets up with Heimdall and is shocked to find out that Fandral, Hogun and Volstagg are accussed of murder. Flashback to the incident, apparently they speared a shapeshifting giant and killed him by accident which explains why they're being prosecuted.
Thor angered, wants to take action but instead Odin tells Thor to calm his ass down. The Giant laughs it off and says that his son was an idiot for pretending to be a mystical sea creature out in the open but since Thor was in defense of The Warriors Three he must now accept the challenge alongside them. The Giant pretty much gives them an epic fetch quest but the catch is Thor can't use his hammer....hmm. Knowing that they have a big adventure ahead of them they have a bit of fun before they go off into the sunset for their first item.
My review:
Rock solid first issue. I'm really interested to see how Thor gets by all of the challenges without the use of Mjolnir. That's going to create some extra effort on his behalf as well as his fellow brothers in arms. The book also seems to follow the Earth Mightiest Heroes fashion of using the past to create new stories that fit into continuity nicely.
I think the whole story the Giant puts tells Odin is fishy though. We're told that Holth (the son giant) never reverted back and sank, he also never let out a peep when he was hit so it seems like a fake story that works in favor of the Giant so that he can obtain these items of power with no effort needed.
Anyway I got a kick out of the opening battle and Scott Kolins kicks ass. It's easily as good as his EMH/Marvel Team-Up work if not better. Tons of detail and a great storyteller using atmosphere.
So far the title is off to a good start as a fun Thor book in the absense of an ongoing title.