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This run by Walter Simonson is pure magic! I remember collecting this as a teenager. Each month seemed like an eternity waiting for the next issue to come out. His run had it all! Wonderful stories, beautiful women, brave heroes, and awesome dragons! Loki was such a great antagonist for Thor. This newest volume is lovingly assembled, so that you experience all the accolades that Walter surely deserved! My copy was carefully packaged and shipped on time. I would definitely purchase from the seller again! Excelsior!
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MIGHTY OMNIBUS
I received my copy at my hairdresser’s shoppe due to Purolator made their first three deliveries to my place during my shift. I was thrilled at the sight of the Ominbus once I cracked open the box! Two of the corners of the book (bottom right of the front and bottom left of the back) are dented slightly and the plastic wrapping was torn...but, nothing is perfect 100% of the time.That aside I’m drooling at reliving my early teen years from the 80s re-reading the classic Simonson run on the Mighty Thor during my upcoming two weeks holidays.What an awesome book! :DJanuary 25th: Just finished reading the omnibus and it was a thrill-a-minute ride!P.S. As I’ve been reading this I believe it would make an awesome BBC Radio dramatization with sound effects and a full cast (Sir Anthony Hopkins as Odin, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Rene Rousso as Frigga...and Walter Simonson, too, and many others. Perhaps Tom Baker would be interested in participating?
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Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2019
I received my copy at my hairdresser’s shoppe due to Purolator made their first three deliveries to my place during my shift. I was thrilled at the sight of the Ominbus once I cracked open the box! Two of the corners of the book (bottom right of the front and bottom left of the back) are dented slightly and the plastic wrapping was torn...but, nothing is perfect 100% of the time.
That aside I’m drooling at reliving my early teen years from the 80s re-reading the classic Simonson run on the Mighty Thor during my upcoming two weeks holidays.
What an awesome book! :D
January 25th: Just finished reading the omnibus and it was a thrill-a-minute ride!
P.S. As I’ve been reading this I believe it would make an awesome BBC Radio dramatization with sound effects and a full cast (Sir Anthony Hopkins as Odin, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Rene Rousso as Frigga...and Walter Simonson, too, and many others. Perhaps Tom Baker would be interested in participating?
That aside I’m drooling at reliving my early teen years from the 80s re-reading the classic Simonson run on the Mighty Thor during my upcoming two weeks holidays.
What an awesome book! :D
January 25th: Just finished reading the omnibus and it was a thrill-a-minute ride!
P.S. As I’ve been reading this I believe it would make an awesome BBC Radio dramatization with sound effects and a full cast (Sir Anthony Hopkins as Odin, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Rene Rousso as Frigga...and Walter Simonson, too, and many others. Perhaps Tom Baker would be interested in participating?
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Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2018
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dr yogesh shenoy
Good omnibus delivered in a bad condition!
Reviewed in India on March 24, 2021
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Reviewed in India on March 24, 2021
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Greywolf
If Kirby's the King, Simonson's the Sultan Supreme!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 14, 2020
Greywolf
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 14, 2020
Thor isn't the only Kirby character Walt Simonson has turned his talents to. He's also produced a long and remarkable run on the Fantastic Four and turned out a brilliant epic featuring Orion of the New Gods over at DC. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Simonson completely understands what made Kirby, his characters, his stories and his art so great. A lot of it is to do with sheer scale. Particularly with Thor, who is, when all's said and done, the Norse god of thunder, a character of such power can only really shine if given an epic story played out against a cosmic backdrop. Kirby provided the whole package. So does Simonson. Both artists have highly distinctive, instantly recognisable styles. While Simonson's resembles Kirby's in some respects, for example the exaggeration of human forms and the forced perspective applied to them, the rendition remains distinctly his own. Simonson's writing similarly employs the kind of cosmic scale that was Kirby's trade mark while adding brilliant imaginative flourishes of his own. He even creates characters of which Kirby himself would have been proud.
Probably the most famous, or infamous, part of Simonson's run on Thor, however, takes place around a pond in a park. This is where we are introduced to Thor, Frog of Thunder. A deliriously entertaining idea when first published, the notion of turning the god of thunder into a frog has become even funnier in the light of Marvel's controversial decision to turn him into a woman. In the back of the book there's an in-house advert Walt drew to advertise this particular plot line. It reads, "Oh, No! What have they done to the Mighty Thor now?" Though rightly remembered for their glorious whackiness, these few issues stand in the middle of an absolutely brilliant run that also sees Thor mixed up with S.H.I.E.L.D., tangling with powerful alien, Beta Ray Bill, losing his power, getting it back again, hanging out with the Warriors Three, tricked and troubled by his scheming half-brother, Loki, trying hard to work out his relationship with the warrior woman, Sif, facing monstrous serpents, Dark Elves and dragons. Simonson also finds a way to give him back the beard he had in the original Icelandic sagas and kits him out with the chariot drawn by goats that he had in them. This could look silly, but with Simonson on art duties as well as writing, it looks amazing. I hope I never encounter such huge, angry-looking goats in real life! He also goes back to the source material to make Odin one-eyed. As a Pagan, I love that Walt has made these choices and absolutely made them work in the context of his stories.
Many of Thor's classic, Kirby-designed adversaries are here, including the Enchantress and the Executioner. As so often during this great run, Walt puts his own distinctive spin on them and issue #362, in which the Enchantress and the Executioner feature is, to my mind, not only one of the best issues in the whole book but one of the best single issues Marvel has ever produced. The Wrecker, Crusher Kreel and the Destroyer also put in appearances, as do an assortment of X-Men and Avengers. Even Fin Fang Foom turns up to threaten our hero.
Walt Simonson even has a cheeky issue in which he introduces a motorcycle cop from the future who is quite clearly based on Judge Dredd, complete with fascistic attitudes and high-tech lethal weaponry. Thor is even given a whole new secret identity and a new costume. Showing just how bold he can be, there's even an entire issue in which every page is a single-page splash, many without dialogue. It's bravura stuff, proving once again that if Kirby's the King, Simonson is the Sultan Supreme.
There's a lot of bang for your buck here too, with this weighty tome running to 1200 pages. For once, all the pages are intact and properly printed as well, something of a rarity with Marvel, as I've found to my cost over the years. The back of the book contains several of Simonson's initial character sketches plus various adverts and one-off pages. All good stuff.
All in all, very highly recommended and absolutely the best run on Thor since Kirby's own. Love it!
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Definitive Thor in an Extremely Large Book
Reviewed in Canada on December 25, 2017
