Random Happenstance

This would be almost a "F### Yeah!" moment, except Thor's syntax is a bit unclear there. Read it out loud at work, and you'll see!

Also, the way the last panel is lined up at crotch level, I really hope that when Thor talks about his three hammers, he just means his fists and Mjolnir...

This was right before Roy Thomas started a bunch of business with the High Evolutionary, and the Godpack. And Thor's new costume. Yeah, there's more than one reason everyone always brings up Walt Simonson's Thor run: not only was it a great batch of comics, it's pretty much the best Thor was or ever has been. Even when it was good afterwards, it paled in comparison. And the Godpack? Not so good.

Newsarama had a piece on J.Michael Straczynski taking over Thor, and while some of his recent work hasn't done it for me, some of his ideas here sound interesting. Maybe the way to bring back some of the grandeur and magic of his book is by not doing any of the usual stories for Thor: no fight with Hercules, or the Hulk, or even Loki. (No matter how much we like them!) Keep Thor out of Asgard, the Avengers, space, and mythology. (Don't forget his background in those, though, just don't keep coming back to them for plots!) I don't know if I'd put Thor in Oklahoma, though.

Why not Monte Carlo? For some reason, the idea of Thor trying to do the spy thing appeals to me. Back in Mark Waid's run on Captain America, there was an issue where Cap brings Thor in to smash some Hydra goons, which is just mean, to be honest. The point is, it might not be a bad idea to see Thor outside his usual milieu (ooh, fancy!) but still see that he's Thor there too.

JMS, I'll give you two issues. Better wow me. And Thor being turned into a frog? Probably his finest hour. Believe it.

From Thor Annual #19, "The Flame and the Lightning" Written by Roy Thomas, pencils by Jerry DeCaire, inks by Romeo Tanghal.