Thor First Thunder #1 Variant Edition

Thor: First Thunder #1-5

by Bryan J.L. Glass

Illustrated comic book.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Marvel, Superheroes, Fantasy, Graphic Novels Comics, Mythology

Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 2 out of 5]

This isn't a really bad book, but it's not very good, either. The writing is excessively wordy and somewhat repetitive and a little repetitive at times and it occasionally verges on the repetitive and the word balloons in some of the panels are larger than the art. The lettering is too cutesy and difficult. The art isn't bad once you get past Loki looking just like Joker much of the time. My problem with it is that it's "expanded for a new generation: a modern look at the origin- and first year on Earth- of the God of Thunder." Nowhere on the cover or the credits page does it acknowledge that what it's rebooting and revising and retconning was plotted by Stan Lee, scripted by Larry Leiber, and drawn by Jack Kirby, and that it debuted in the August 1962 issue of Journey into Mystery. It's my belief that one shouldn't revise Tarzan without mentioning Burroughs or reboot Sherlock without crediting Doyle or record a cover of Hey Jude unless you cite Lennon & McCartney or... you get the idea. It's not a bad remake, but it's unnecessary because it was done right the first time.

[Jim Ef · Rating 2 out of 5]

3.7/10

A not that great retelling of Thor's early days at Earth. The story is weak and the art doesn't make things any better.

[Dimitris Papastergiou · Rating 2 out of 5]

A retelling of sorts of the first couple of adventures of Thor's early days on earth after he was banished from Asgard.

A nice read but nothing that will get you excited.

[Alex · Rating 1 out of 5]

And just when i think i couldn't possibly read a crappiest comic in 2019, Thor:First Thunder comes along. Story? Shitty. Art? Scetchy with zero analogies in the characters or depth of field. This comic book is a complete waste of time and money. Just skip.

(Read the greek edition that was of the lowest quality of paper and print, just to complete the experience :P).

[C.J. Edmunds · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although I am still finding myself trying to like the art, the storyline does echo a little bit of the movie and how Thor was banished to Earth in order to learn about humility and to atone for the "bungle" he made in Asgard.

It may not be Strazynski's take on Thor but still readable. Not a must buy though, unless you are a Thunder God devotee...

Strazynski, come back to writing Thor please....

[Daniel Sepúlveda · Rating 1 out of 5]

Puntaje: 1 Estrellas.

A todas aquellas páginas en donde recomendaban esta historia como una “buena lectura sobre Thor y Loki”: NO LAS VOLVERÉ A CONSULTAR JAMÁS.

Dios santo, creo que hemos encontrado al peor cómic del año…

Thor es un personaje de quien quisiera leer un poco más, sin embargo, ¡no sé por donde comenzar! Cuando hice mi investigación acerca de lecturas recomendadas, vi que mencionaban mucho esta en específico, así que decidí darle una oportunidad. Como vieron previamente, esta fue una pésima decisión.

Lo poco que sé de Thor es por la mitología Nórdica, las películas y uno que otro cómic de los Vengadores, más allá de eso no sé absolutamente nada. Y creo que si le dicen a un lector novato que comience con el personaje justo con este cómic, lo sacarán corriendo!

¿Qué fue lo que no me gusto? La trama estuvo muy simplona. Ni siquiera las apariciones de varios personajes de Marvel como los 4 Fantásticos, Spider-Man o Tony Stark pudieron animar la historia. Además, las ilustraciones tampoco aportan mucho a la experiencia del lector. Por último, Thor habla con un vocabulario muy antiguo (Lo cual tiene sentido teniendo en cuenta el contexto del personaje) y todo era muy complicado de leer por la tipografía especial que utilizaban en varias partes de la novela gráfica.

La verdad es que este ha sido un cómic muy aburrido, no lo recomiendo para comenzar con este personaje. Espero encontrar mejores historias sobre Thor en el futuro.

[Quentin Wallace · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very disappointing. The art was below Marvel standards and the story was overwritten and wordy, as well as confusing at times. Also, I'm not sure exactly how the narrative ties into the existing origin of Thor, or if it was supposed to? Regardless, I'd say skip this unless you are a huge Thor fan, and even then I'd think twice.

[matina.reads]

DNF 42%

[Audrey Hacker · Rating 1 out of 5]

No. Just, no.

[tony dillard jr · Rating 3 out of 5]

Relive the first year of Thor's return to earth in this 5-issue collection from Marvel. In terms of an origin story, there's not much being rebooted. But there's not much being rehashed to where I felt that I had read this story before.

The real crux of this story is the relationship between Donald Blake and Thor. It answers a nagging question that I have had about Thor and Blake for a very long time- where does Blake go when Thor is summoned and vice-versa?

Donald Blake's love-affair with Jane Foster is another key element that has matured somewhat in this retelling of Thor's origin. It's not that insipid soap opera drivel that Stan and Jack did back in the 1960s. Of the many things Stan Lee could do well, writing a love story wasn't one of them...

The one thing about this book that I had trouble with was the art. Or maybe it's the inks. Heck it could be both. Tan Eng Huat (Legion: Sox of X) is the artist. I admire some of his subtle nuances, like having Donald Blake's bad leg be atrophied. But when it came to noses, the artist gives everybody the same one- a long green bean of a thing. And for some reason, Huat liked to draw faces where you can see up their nose.

The last quarter of the book is inked by a different person other that Huat ,who for the most part does double duty. The new inker's stuff looks much cleaner and more in the style of John Bryne or Sal Buscema. I like it better as the Huat pencils which also tend to look blurry. That would be okay for action scenes, but even the static ones look out of focus.

A good story with art and inks that need polish.

[Ambra · Rating 1 out of 5]

1/5

This is the worst Thor comic series I’ve ever read. Okay, so maybe this is only the second Thor comic I’ve ever read but my point still stands. The last one was bad. This one was so much worse.

I really don’t want to go on a long rant again, but the art is horrendous and the storyline was jumbled and all over the place.

I don’t even think it made sense. Heimdall shed a tear for ‘the son of Odin’ yet somehow whatever magic that kept Loki chained doesn’t care what his actual intentions were, it just cares that he didn’t properly specify with words why he was crying. Do you announce why you’re crying whenever you’re alone and shed a single tear? No? Well apparently magic requires that you do. But anyway, it freed Loki. Which would be fine if Loki wasn’t so ugly.

(I’m trying to read some comics with Loki as I wait for episode 3 of the Loki series, but it hasn’t been a great start. Maybe the next one will be better).

[Indika de Silva · Rating 2 out of 5]

The following graphic novel is the collects Thor's first adventures on Midgard aka Earth.

I personally feel some of the stories where hurried and no proper character development had taken place.

Nevertheless it is a must read for the fans of the God of Thunder.

[John Devenny · Rating 1 out of 5]

This retelling of Thor’s origin story is a major disappointment. The artwork is ugly to look at and the story is both confusing and badly written with too much flowery language.
Overall an unnecessary book.

[Χρύσα Αναστασίου · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one was okay. I enjoyed my time reading it but it didn't leave me feeling anything special, as the others before. On to the next one!

[David Mcgrady · Rating 2 out of 5]

I felt like like this story about the god of thunder was just a thinly veiled attempt to preach about jesus also I didn't like the art work.

[Svetlana · Rating 1 out of 5]

Obnoxious Thor, questionable artwork, too many thou, thee and thys.

[Josh Resinger · Rating 3 out of 5]

Beginning is a little slow, but has a very strong ending! Overall an entertaining Thor story.

[Zoe Collis · Rating 3 out of 5]

ehhhh….??
I personally didn’t find it very captivating, but I suppose we’ve been so spoiled with such good stories between Thor and Loki recently, that this older collection falls flat.

[Rajit · Rating 2 out of 5]

A completely unnecessary reboot that's not very well-written.

[Shannon · Rating 2 out of 5]

The reboot/retooling/retelling of how Thor and Donald Blake became one. Thor is supposed to find his humanity, and Blake is supposed to find his inner strength. The concept is ok, but the characters act weird, overly emotional and panicky, and Thor is far too cold to ‘realistically’ be today’s Defender of Midgard version. No one changes that much.
The scenery art is pretty good, but the people look terrible. The distorted faces and awkward body poses really look bad.

[Slayermel · Rating 3 out of 5]

“Thor: First Thunder” seems to be the origin story, it delves into why Thor was banished from Asgard by his Father Odin, why his brother Loki is always vexing him, and how he overcomes his selfish ways. I loved that there where an appearance of some of my other favourite superhero’s such as Tony Stark aka, Iron Man :0), Spiderman, the fantastic four etc...

The story is a good one in the sense that it deals with overcoming personal issues and becoming more self aware, and wanting to be a better person. Now all that being said I ended up giving it 3 stars because I had a hard time connecting with some of the other characters and actually did not care what happened to them, Jane being one of the prime examples. Which I imagine is not a great thing since she seems to be Dr. Blake’s main squeeze. Oh well, this does not mean I’m going to give up on Thor as I do love him as a character and I will try another story very soon.

[Ed Dinnermonkey · Rating 2 out of 5]

There's a lot of love for Thor here by both artist and writer, but this doesn't feel like a contemporary origin story. In fact it feels very much like a silver age throwback, filled with an overabundance of purple prose and supporting characters. It's not bad and just about achieves the aim of allowing Thor to learn humility, but nothing particularly stands out. A pity.

[Thomas Hale · Rating 1 out of 5]

Kind of a boring, hurried mess. The artwork is awful, Liefeld-esque gubbins with too many lines everywhere, missing eyes and weird anatomical warps. At least they can draw feet. I guess they rushed it out to coincide with the first Thor movie back in '011, but as an origin story retelling it seems very rushed, with details and interesting moments getting lost in relentless pacing. Pretty bad.

[Caleb · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a retelling of the origin of Thor and in my opinion it didn't take too well. The big problem is that we already have Thor's origin and a couple of retellings. Each one changes it more and while the core characters are here the plot just kind of goes out of control. The artwork was ok, some of the characters looked weird but some looked fine.

[Jin · Rating 3 out of 5]

"A neat origin story for Thor. Simple in concept but reasonable in plot and heavy on the script. The art is not that impressive but easy to look at. I decided to buy this book so as to have a Thor graphic novel in my line of collection."

[Angela · Rating 2 out of 5]

A retelling of Thor's origin story. It's ok but does not have the charm that you usually associate with this series.

[Matt Thomas · Rating 3 out of 5]

A modern retelling of the origin of Thor.

[Keenan Lee · Rating 3 out of 5]

its an interesting read ill give it that but its really not that good,it doesn't place well with anything else in the universe and kind-a comes out of left field in some places.

[La Revistería Comics · Rating 3 out of 5]

¡Gooooooooool de Thooooor!

[MB Taylor · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not much here to recommend. The story was OK, but not especially memorable, and the art wasn't particularly to my liking.