Its technically Sunday

A happy end of the month birthday to arcaneja...

Writer's Block: To the Mat

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Bubba Root the Hillbilly From Hell. Finisher: Top rope frog-splash, The Avalanche. Or the Hillybilly Holla, a ground chin-lock submission. Of course that would all be in some alternate universe where I'm NOT a lazy tub of goo...

Sunday Trade: Thor

Thor: Visionaries Walter Simonson by Walter Simonson, additional inks Terry Austin & Bob Wiacek, letters by John Workman Jr, colors by George Roussos & Christie Scheele

The "Visionaries" series is meant to showcase those whose work exemplified a series. And few people left a greater mark on book than the Simonson did during his run on The Mighty Thor. This book collects issues #337-348 of his legendary run. It has the introduction of Beta Ray Bill, the fight with Fafnir, Malekith the Dark Elf and the opening of the invasion by Surtur and his armies. Which is annoyingly where the book ends. On a massive cliffhanger. Happily I see there are four more volumes of Simonson Thor. Sadly, I see volumes two and three are out of print and have tripled in price on the teritary markets. Annoying...

But given my volume one is a fairly new printing, hopefully that means Marvel will reprint the rest. I mean its not like Marvel would instead put out "Visionaries" books collecting the "legendary" Daredevil run of Kevin Smith or the X-Men run of Joe Madureira. Seriously, I bought damn near every X-book in the 90s and I couldn't even guess which ones Madureira wrote...

But Simonson + Thor = Gods'-be-damned awesome. I mean it has Sif and a talking space battleship teaming up to kick the crap out of space-demons. Balder tries to be a pacifist. Loki gets his head cut off (he gets better). Comics where everything is larger than life and twice as colorful...