Thor #2 preview [SPOILERS]

[Foolish Mortal]

http://comicnewsi.com/article.php?catid=231&itemid=10061

And my new desktop...
http://i16.tinypic.com/6ffi7hs.jpg

[Tom Burgos]

Damn!

Coipel never fails to take my breath away!

[MAK15]

nice!

[SeanC]

A lot of 'Lord of the Rings' visuals in there. That's both good and bad.

[Jerome Gibbons]

First issue was kind of underwhelming, but I'll keep reading. The Iron Man/Thor confrontation should be interesting, at least.

[ZombieSpeedball]

Awesome. I think Thor is going to be one of my new favorite series. I can't wait to see him fight:

Iron Man
Hulk
Sentry
Ares
Thor Clone (I want)
Reed Richards
Skrulls

[Humphrey_Lee]

Damn!

Coipel never fails to take my breath away!

If I bought books just for the art, I might have ended up buying the first issue. Alas, not to be...

[bradical]

that image your using for your desktop is amazing. copiel just get better and better. would have liked more meat to first issue storywise, but i'm in for now.

[Jef UK]

A lot of 'Lord of the Rings' visuals in there. That's both good and bad.

I don't see it.

[Albert]

I don't see it.

What about the giant photo of Viggo Mortensen on page 2?

[Tom Burgos]

If I bought books just for the art, I might have ended up buying the first issue. Alas, not to be...

I didn't buy it either, but only cuz I simply have never had any interest in Thor whatsoever.
And the writer in this book isn't a fave of mine either.
But damn if that art isn't amazing.

[Colby]

Absolutely gorgeous, but I'm gonna need to hear more about the writing before I'll commit.

[The Hodag]

I dig Coipel's art and he's only getting better, but the first issue was merely adequate and the book seems like the new poster child for decompression. Also: worried about what's gonna happen when JMS turns on the schtick humor with the midwesterners. I was a big Babylon 5 geek, but even there his sense of humor could elicit physical pain.

Approaching with extreme caution...

[Keith P.]

I want to see him completely freak out when he learns one of his best friends in the entire world was murdered.

[Andy Kuhn]

the book seems like the new poster child for decompression.

my thoughts exactly. coipels art is beautiful, but in the five or six pages that are previewed, not a whole lot happens.

[mark morales]

all of #2 looks really great.......and wait until you see the iron man/thor fight in #3.....olivier is knocking it out of ther park again

[Patrick J]

Eh... I didn't dig the first issue too much, I like JMS' first couple years on Amazing Spider-Man but his recent stuff hasn't blown me away. Fantastic art though, and I love the way Coipel draws Thor. Still a humanoid but still otherworldly yet almost caveman/Neanderthal like. The way I would imagine a real Viking to look. Not like fucking Fabio the way many artists have drawn him in the past.

I'll keep reading it. But I wish Gaiman had been brought in to write this new Thor stuff, or Oeming.

[jamestolliver]

all of #2 looks really great.......and wait until you see the iron man/thor fight in #3.....olivier is knocking it out of ther park again

anyone know when this takes place in relation to WWH? I assume before since iron man is busy getting his ass kicked over in WWH.

[Jerome Gibbons]

anyone know when this takes place in relation to WWH? I assume before since iron man is busy getting his ass kicked over in WWH.

I assume it takes place after WWH, since Thor won't be involved in that thing.

[J. R. Scherer]

I don't see it.

It's very 'Gondor-ish' in design.

I'm glad to see Thor back, but that first issue was a huge letdown. JMS wrote it as the part before the first commercial break in a TV show instead of thinking of it as a full episode.

[nick maynard]

my thoughts exactly. coipels art is beautiful, but in the five or six pages that are previewed, not a whole lot happens.

are you kidding? this has to be the least decompressed first arc ever. first issue and thor is completely back from the dead - done in one. the preview pages show him bringing back all of asgard in 5 pages. if these arent big things in every issue, i dont know what is.

compare that to bendis' NA first 6 issues of one fight and MA first 6 issues of standing in front of ultron. now i love bendis' books, but this thor series is relatively fast paced.

[Jerome Gibbons]

are you kidding? this has to be the least decompressed first arc ever. first issue and thor is completely back from the dead - done in one. the preview pages show him bringing back all of asgard in 5 pages. if these arent big things in every issue, i dont know what is.

compare that to bendis' NA first 6 issues of one fight and MA first 6 issues of standing in front of ultron. now i love bendis' books, but this thor series is relatively fast paced.

I won't really use the term 'decompressed' to describe the first issue of Thor, but I will say it just didn't feel like it had a lot of 'meat' to it. It went by relatively fast, and it didn't feel like a lot that was particularly profound or interesting happened. I mean, yeah, Thor came back and Donald Blake came back and they're in Oklahoma now, but it just felt like a very light read.

Hopefully the second issue will feel a little meatier. I'm not too worried about the third one considering that's where the confrontation with Iron Man happens.

[jamestolliver]

I assume it takes place after WWH, since Thor won't be involved in that thing.

Oh ok. Makes sense. Thanks

[The Hodag]

are you kidding? this has to be the least decompressed first arc ever. first issue and thor is completely back from the dead - done in one.

When it's all pretty much accomplished through a conversation with himself, there's no escaping the fact that - to borrow a TV comparison - it feels more like a teaser than a full episode.

I think I might've been more into it had it been a double-sized issue so we could've had more of a story than a single event (Thor wills himself back into existence). The writing was actually pretty solid and I liked seeing Don Blake back.

[Jerome Gibbons]

I think I might've been more into it had it been a double-sized issue so we could've had more of a story than a single event (Thor wills himself back into existence). The writing was actually pretty solid and I liked seeing Don Blake back.

Yeah, exactly. It was nicely written, and the art was beautiful, it just wasn't a very full read.

[Mike_Johnson]

Well, it sure looks damn good.

[Jerome Gibbons]

I kinda hope JMS explores the idea that gods exist because of man a little more. It seems like a bit of a radical idea to apply to Thor and the other Marvel gods.

[A.Huerta]

A lot of 'Lord of the Rings' visuals in there. That's both good and bad.

I'm pretty sure Thor was before LoTR.

[nick maynard]

I kinda hope JMS explores the idea that gods exist because of man a little more. It seems like a bit of a radical idea to apply to Thor and the other Marvel gods.

they explored that in earth x a bunch. id love to see how jms interprets the same idea.

[jamestolliver]

I'm pretty sure Thor was before LoTR.

I think he meant the feel of the new book was a lot like LotR. Also thor, the comic book character, debuted in 1962 and the books LotR came out in 1954.

[Foolish Mortal]

I kinda hope JMS explores the idea that gods exist because of man a little more. It seems like a bit of a radical idea to apply to Thor and the other Marvel gods.


they explored that in earth x a bunch. id love to see how jms interprets the same idea.
This idea was touched upon in-continuity in Thor #300.

[A.Huerta]

I think he meant the feel of the new book was a lot like LotR. Also thor, the comic book character, debuted in 1962 and the books LotR came out in 1954.

I'm pretty sure Thor was around waaaay before 1954. :lol:

Plus any designs from LoTR or any other fantasy setting is all grabbed from our own history and legends. They just add little details to make it "unique".

I know LoTR is a popular book, but dont forget the centuries of history/culture before it. :-)

[jamestolliver]

I'm pretty sure Thor was around waaaay before 1954. :lol:

Plus any designs from LoTR or any other fantasy setting is all grabbed from our own history and legends. They just add little details to make it "unique".

yeah I'm down. That why I meantion that the comic book character and comic mythos which, is different from the regular mythology in a wide variety of ways.

Yeah, I've always thought that fantasy kind of builds on itself and that find with me.

[J. R. Scherer]

I'm pretty sure Thor was before LoTR.

This version of Asgard's design owes a LOT more to Alan Lee that it does to Jack Kirby.