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- Title: Thor Visionaries: Walter Simonson, Vol. 1
- Author: Walter Simonson
- ISBN: 9780785131892
- Page: 106
- Format: Paperback
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Over the years I ve heard time and again about Walt Simonson s legendarily regarded Thor run held up so often as among the best work ever committed for this bigger than life character And I m about to shit on the first collected volume of it Let s begin.Hey, comic book nerd here Hate to break it to ya Walt but you ve left a gaping logic hole in your storytelling here To wit when Thor is approaching Earth on Beta Ray Bill s spaceship and without my hammer in my hand, I ve reverted to my Blake for [...]
Winter of 1983 I was a full grown and mature thirteen 13 year old That is what I believed anyway By this point, I had put all the things of childhood behind me even my beloved DD mostly to focus on grown up things sports, music, girls, and cars Not necessarily in that order This meant the days of me sitting around reading comics was over Forever Sure, I still ran an eye over the comic rack at the local gas station or the bookstore at the mall, but other than just looking at them, I didn t read t [...]
I read this as part of an attempt to learn about Thor, since I ve liked him so much in the Marvel movies I d read something like a few pages with Thor beforehand, and I don t know terribly much about Norse mythology, so I don t really have any preconceived notions So I m happy to report that this was really good reading.If there s one thing I expected going into Thor, it was that the language would be intentionally and archaically formal It s what one does with Thor, after all And here s it s h [...]
Thor Visionaries Volume One covers one of the greatest periods in Thor s little corner of the Marvel Universe, issues 337 348 I read them when they first came out, and they are all packed away in mylar bags and comic boxes in my office I was pretty stoked to have them all in this Graphic Omnibus edition, and for the most part they didn t disappoint Here are my highs, mediums and lows Thor Visionaries Top Ten The Awesomeness1 Balder the Brave The best story arc of the Omnibus, we see Balder gone [...]
Thor meets noble alien Beta Ray Bill, loses his Donald Blake persona permanently, fights Fafnir the dragon, meets an old Viking, is seduced by Lorelei, and uncovers a plot by Malekith to use the Casket of Ancient Winters to release his master.This was interesting than the collection that follows which I read first due to the issues introducing Beta Ray Bill and the showdown with Malekith, who I m familiar with from Thor The Dark World I m pretty curious to know what was going through Simonson s [...]
DAS ist Thor Wer chronologisch die Abenteuer Thors miterlebt hat, oder sich beispielsweise vor diesem Band die Essentials von Marvel gelesen hat was sehr empfehlenswert ist , wird hier sein blaues Wunder erleben Simonson hat Thor praktisch neu erfunden weg ist die Pseudoidentit t Don Blake, die eh nur f r melodramatische Herzschmerz Seitenstories diente, weg ist dieses schmierige Pathos, das den 70er Jahre Thor teilweise unlesbar machte Simonsons Thor ist nicht mehr in erster Linie ein Mitglied [...]
So many a reviewer will agree in saying that Walt Simonson s run on The Mighty Thor contained epic arcs that rival those of Jack Kirby and Stan Lee Other reviews may suggest that Simonson s attention to detail and the ready hybrid of actual Norse with the classic Marvel contemporary super hero mythology made for a mix that surpassed the Lee Kirby originals Whereas that may be a cyclical, unending debate, what is non debatable is the fact that this collection of Simonson s initial run on The Migh [...]
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Let s just make one thing clear I DO NOT rate think barely any comics warrant a 5 star rating And this did Walter Simonson is a fabulous writer each character s voice was unique loved the Nick Fury Thor foil of language especially , and the humor was perfectly placed What I appreciated most about this volume and Simonson s narrative was how minor characters who are initially narrated as weak or flawed become an important piece of the story, and although weak, he is able to show the true stuff he [...]
While this feels a bit dated now, Simonson s run on Thor was, at the time, revolutionary Simonson took a staid and typical superhero comic and revitalized it He not only took the myths and legends of Norse mythology and wove threads into the series, but he also brought a new visual aesthetic to the series that energized the characters in ways that had not been seen since Jack Kirby left the series.
The beginning of the Simonson Saga Not as strong as other volumes, but a great start nonetheless, in setting up all the action to follow Great art, storytelling, and classic pacing add up to a winner, and a great place to start Thor.
My dad kept telling me how awesome these comics were, so I gave it a try Dad was actually right This was a really cool Thor story.
Quite good and funI grew up with comics like Thor, indeed in a place populated by many of Scandinavian descent my high school mascot was a Viking and have always been fascinated by Norse mythology So masculine although their society was quite equilateral I believe, the women also fought and there are many strong females You fight with your mates, and if you die honorably, you are picked by the Valkyries to go to Valhalla, where, as a rewardyou battle all day and then feast and boast about your e [...]
Now this is how you make comics Walt Simonson hits the ground running with his landmark run on The Mighty Thor from the 1980 s From the introduction of Beta Ray Bill to the first appearance of Malekith the Dark Elf these are top notch tales of Nordic adventure Simonson packs so much into each issue, a fully satisfying tale of Thor masterfully interwoven with subplots involving Balder the Brave and a growing menace whose sound effects portend DOOM Incredible comics that I can t believe it s taken [...]
Having recently suffered through stories containing unworthy Thor and bat crazy Odin it is refreshing to once embrace the concept of noble Odin and worthy Thor One unworthy reviewing the book called himself a comic nerd but didn t even know of the 60 second rule from the earliest days of Marvel s Thor concerning Thor s contact with Mjolnir and said he couldn t even finish the book really Wonder if he missed the wonderful cameo of a certain reporter from Metropolis delightfully given in this vol [...]
Simonson jumps into The Mighty Thor with both feet, instilling Norse mythology first and foremost into the comic, and then adds many subplots to keep the pace not without faults characters narrating their own actions quickly becomes infuriating, and Simonson s art full of epic and grandeur in the pencils loses much when inked by others who lack the loose elegance Simonson brings to his own art but otherwise strong and compelling comic book storytelling.
The quickest way to a god s heartAlthough still using far too much expositional dialogue, the characters and story lines are starting to become somewhat complex This book has a lot of issues That is to say, it has a lot of pages, and has been the longest comic compilation I ve read to date.Probably the biggest gripe I had was the cookies.
Simonson came into his run with a rich mix of iconoclasm and apocalyptic fidelity to the oldest source material Along the way he has a tremendous visual style that makes every issue have some amazing moments.
I ve been reading and enjoying other Thor collected editions but I just couldn t get into this one The dialogues are painful, the plot is like Swiss cheese and the art is not impressive Either this work is quite dated or it s just not for me.
I had never really read any Thor before, but heard that Walter Simonson s run on it was classic so picked up this volume A really fun read The stories are big and full of adventure Great stuff.
ESTIMATED DNF RATING 2 5 star to 2.5 5 stars STANDARDIZED RATING 2 5 stars
It s a comic bookTime killer in which I was left with no emotions involved I guess I m too old to get into it.
Walt Simonson Thor is truly one of the best comic runs I have ever read and I ve read my share of comic book runs.
Some friends were recently discussing how this series is a highlight of both Simonson s career and of the Thor title so I decided to try it.The art was less distinctively Simonson than it is today, which was disappointing but not surprising It s still quite good, of course, especially for being from the 80s Often in books from this era, the hair and clothing styles are distractingly dated, but Simonson kept things generic And the coloring is much better than your average 80s book from DC But th [...]
The first twelve issues of Simonson s lauded Thor run stand up pretty well all these years later, despite the changes in writing style in comics since there s too much exposition, though Simonson s better on this than many other eighties writers, and there are too many concessions to the casual reader e.g a note translating Midgard as Earth every time it appears Crucial changes in the Thor mythos, including the discarding of the whole Don Blake alter ego and a far explicitly Norse influenced wo [...]
Do you know that feeling when you open a book and read the first page and you just now, deep down in your gut, that you re going to love this And you make sure you are in the right place when you start reading, so you settle down properly and then turn the pages half frantically, half in awe I had this with books like The Neverending Story when I was a kid, and I had it with the first volume of JMS Thor back in March this year, and I sure as hell had it with this book.The stories collected in he [...]
Walt Simonson taking over the Thor book marked a major shift in the character and the stories While the bombastic dialogue and overwrought reactions didn t go away entirely and there are some over the top past the Moon moments throughout this book , the speech patterns of all of the characters were streamlined and mostly stripped of the cod Shakespearean dialect, even if characters still tend to speechify to a horrifying degree The story focus shifted much to the cosmic, the long standing Donal [...]
If you were to compare mainstream comic books DC and Marvel between the 80s and 90s, the 80s in my humble opinion would come out with flying colors And Walter Simonson s run on Thor, of which this is the first of four volumes collecting that, rivals John Byrne s epic run on Fantastic Four Although Simonson s story telling technique has been overshadowed by the modern Bendis like style of limited narration in favor of dialogue only, revisiting the God of Thunder s adventures under Simonson s hel [...]
An excellent start to a classic run Simonson establishes a new status quo from the start, setting up a competitor to the titular god, a new secret identity and a menacing, growing threat The last continues to develop as Thor works through several subplots, including a dragon returned to life, a romance at home and a long running battle with the dark elves.This sounds pretty high fantasy, but Simonson does a great job establishing the grandeur of his Norse gods while maintaining their essential h [...]
I finally got to read the story from the beginning I remember picking up Thor for the first time and getting pulled right into the middle of this epic Still great after all these years Its the first Thor I was introduced to and what I compare to all the others even from Norse myth I like the idea of multiple Ragnarok s and the Norse pantheon being reborn into the Marvel world.I wasn t totally blown away by it since I was familiar with the story already, so I m not sure if I can fairly rate it Th [...]