New Thor ongoing by Fraction in April!

[Ben Morse]

Me and Matt Fraction talk about his new ongoing, The Mighty Thor, starting in April with the first arc drawn by Olivier Coipel!

http://marvel.com/news/story/14999/t...y_thor_strikes

[Gryphon]

Gillen Gillen Gillen!!!

[zati1]

Hm, interesting...it's like another iHerc/Hulk switch where "Thor" returns to "Journey Into Mystery" and Thor spins off into his own title.

From the article, am I correct in understanding that Coipel and Ferry will share art duties on this title, and Gillen's "Journey" is left artistless?

[IronStarks]

Yeah I think the biggest news here is the return of Gillen on Thor.

Now the question is, can Thor support 2 titles?

[psycho]

Fraction and gillen both writing Thor books, surely this can only be a good thing? Apart from the obvious extra money needed each month

[Desaad]

Cool stuff.

I wasn't at all a fan of Gillen's run, and "The Mighty Thor" somehow seems a cheat after the great 'The Mighty Avenger' title, but I'm going to give both "Journey Into Mystery" and "The Mighty Thor" a shot.

And the Galactus seed sounds promising -- with Thor vs Silver Surfer an absolute classic that I hope Fraction can put an interesting spin on. In the classic Stan Lee/Buscema meeting, it was clear that Thor was the more powerful, and then again in Blood and Thunder (terrible). What, I wonder, will Fraction bring to the table? Perhaps something other than a physical conflict?

[Desaad]

Yeah I think the biggest news here is the return of Gillen on Thor.

Now the question is, can Thor support 2 titles?

He's already been supporting (albeit poorly) somewhere in the vicinity of 5 at the moment, right? Thor, Thor the Mighty Avenger, Thor: First Thunder, Astonishing Thor, Thor: For Asgard, and then Iron Man/Thor, plus spin offs like Warriors Three.

As always, it depends on the quality of the series, but if a character like Green Lantern can support 4 books I'm sure Thor can do two.

[Ben Morse]

http://marvel.com/news/story/15012/a...y_into_mystery

[YouthofToday]

Didn't see this coming at all. I guess it makes sense. They want to have a new #1 for when the movie comes out. Little confused though. Does this Galactus Seed story tie into Fear Itself?
And its nice to FINALLY have Coipel back on a monthly.

[Yaggi_Rck]

Coipel back on "The Mighty Thor" is the BEST thing of 2011 SO FAR! (at least in comics )
And if you add Pasqual Ferry's there too, it will be epic! (artistically, at least)

[Swie]

Didn't see this coming at all. I guess it makes sense. They want to have a new #1 for when the movie comes out. Little confused though. Does this Galactus Seed story tie into Fear Itself?
And its nice to FINALLY have Coipel back on a monthly.

I think Journey into Mystery is supposed to tie into Fear Itself (Gillen mentions it in that interview Ben Morse linked to). Galactus Seed is something else...

[YouthofToday]

I think Journey into Mystery is supposed to tie into Fear Itself (Gillen mentions it in that interview Ben Morse linked to). Galactus Seed is something else...

Thanks. I read both articles too fast.

[Fanatic reborn]

I read this like Fear itself is a Thor event more so than a Marvel universe event?

[Yaggi_Rck]

I read this like Fear itself is a Thor event more so than a Marvel universe event?

Fraction said on some interviews that "Fear Itself" was born as a Cap-Thor story that got bigger and bigger until it turned into a line-wide event. So it spins out of some developments on both "Captain America" and "Thor"..

[Zolton]

Oh, wow. Galactus vs. Asgard and the return of Olivier Coipel? I'm there. Hopefully it'll be better written than Fraction's current Thor work.