Thor: Across All Worlds [Paperback]

Don Jurgen (Author), Andy Kubert (Illustrator), Stuart Immonen (Illustrator)

Book Description

Series: Marvels Finest | Publication Date: September 26, 2001

Thor, god of Thunder, is a god with more than a passing interest in the doings on Midgard (Earth to you and me). His sense of duty and morality forces Thor to merge his life-spirit into the mortal body of paramedic Jake Olson. Thus, he finds himself a god divided, with loyalties to the court of Odin, ruler of the Norse Gods, and as a man with obligations to friends and family.

This powerfully told story follows the attempt by Lord Malekith the Dark Elf to take over Asgard by unleashing the immeasurable power contained within the Cask of Ancient Winters. With Thor tending to matters on Earth and mighty Odin undergoing the necessary Odinsleep to renew his powers, it falls to Lady Sif to rule and protect the Realm Eternal. Sensing opportunity, Ulik, leader of the Trolls, also decides the time has come to ravage Asgard, so the gods themselves have their hands full.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Marvel Comics (September 26, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785107967
• ISBN-13: 978-0785107965
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,543,803 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Binding on my copy is fine, but still gets a low rating for the story., September 16, 2005

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Babytoxie (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Thor: Across All Worlds (Paperback)

Once Walt Simonson finished his '80s run on Thor, I quit. Tom DeFalco ran it into the ground, and I felt nothing could ever be that good again. Recently, however, many people have recommended Dan Jurgens' and Andy Kubert's version of Thor to me, saying it continued in the spirit of Simonson's work. Upon finishing their trade paperback THOR: ACROSS ALL WORLDS, I can say with certainty that Thor still isn't what he was.

The only way I can see that this loose "storyline" harkens back to Simonson's version is that it tries to take almost every concept he used throughout his run on Thor and cram it into 8 issues. Beta Ray Bill, Malekith, the Cask of Ancient Winters, Kurse, the Wild Hunt, the Enchantress... they're all here, doing just what they were doing 20 years ago. Big deal. Throw in some major plot devices that are hardly explained at all (Thor's new alter ego; the fate of Odin; the scheme of Zarrko, the Tomorrow Man), as well as some page-eating battles with The Wrecking Crew, Gladiator, and "Thor-Girl" and you've got a writer who's struggling to make the character of Thor relevant again but just floundering. I love Jurgens' work on Superman, but Thor? He apparently doesn't get it.

As far as the art goes, it could be better. I am not a huge fan of Andy Kubert. While he is capable, I feel that he is only as good as his inker/embellisher (see Neil Gaiman's 1602). Stuart Immonen lends his beautiful pencils to one issue of this book, teasing the reader with what could have been. So, my advice: Get all of the Marvel Comics reprints of Lee/Kirby's and Walt Simonson's Thor, and leave it at that.

8 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Issues - if only the book didn't fall apart, April 28, 2002

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Kay A Hollender - See all my reviews

This review is from: Thor: Across All Worlds (Paperback)

There is another book (X-Men Visionaries Joe Maduirea) I got that is basicly the same quality of paper as this one, and basicly I recieved one copy, and it was defective. As was the replacement order as well.
Marvel luckily uses better quality Glossy Stock paper nowadays - but really on this particular book, and the other book that is similar to this (which I recieved 4 defective books in a row), this book is just horrible paper quality and horrible glue quality. Pages fall out, and the cover comes off.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Marvel's Shoddy workmanship, December 21, 2005

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Doc (Sydney, N.S.W. Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Thor: Across All Worlds (Paperback)

As with the other reviewers here I'm not going to talk about the comics themselves. The stories are fine but don't spend your money on these shoddy TPBs. This is not the only book of this series (glossy paper, black and white spine) that has come aprt on first read. I can't imagine why Marvel used such poor quality materials but BUYER BEWARE. Clearly this isn't isolated to either my edition or this title. Stay away and find editions with paper pages. In my experience they last. In fact, Marvelite though I am, DC collected editions are far superior in this regard.