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Thors #1
Thors #1
The Thors of every Domain, together in one book! As cosmic cops! Whenever there's trouble on Battleworld, the Thors answer the call. But a string of mysterious murders leaves some of them asking questions that may unravel all of reality! A hard-hitting Marvel Comics police drama. With hammers. Lots and lots of hammers.
22 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 1, 2015
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About the author
Jason Aaron
2,358 books1,678 followersJason Aaron grew up in a small town in Alabama. His cousin, Gustav Hasford, who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers, on which the feature film Full Metal Jacket was based, was a large influence on Aaron. Aaron decided he wanted to write comics as a child, and though his father was skeptical when Aaron informed him of this aspiration, his mother took Aaron to drug stores, where he would purchase books from spinner racks, some of which he still owns today.
Aaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors.
In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.
Following this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo.
In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw: Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions. Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso, who was impressed by The Other Side and Scalped, hired Aaron to write issues of Wolverine, Black Panther and eventually, an extended run on Ghost Rider that began in April 2008. His continued work on Black Panther also included a tie-in to the company-wide crossover storyline along with a "Secret Invasion" with David Lapham in 2009.
In January 2008, he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, though it would not affect his work on Scalped. Later that July, he wrote the Penguin issue of The Joker's Asylum.
After a 4-issue stint on Wolverine in 2007, Aaron returned to the character with the ongoing series Wolverine: Weapon X, launched to coincide with the feature film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Aaron commented, "With Wolverine: Weapon X we'll be trying to mix things up like that from arc to arc, so the first arc is a typical sort of black ops story but the second arc will jump right into the middle of a completely different genre," In 2010, the series was relaunched once again as simply Wolverine. He followed this with his current run on Thor: God of Thunder.
Aaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors.
In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.
Following this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo.
In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw: Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions. Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso, who was impressed by The Other Side and Scalped, hired Aaron to write issues of Wolverine, Black Panther and eventually, an extended run on Ghost Rider that began in April 2008. His continued work on Black Panther also included a tie-in to the company-wide crossover storyline along with a "Secret Invasion" with David Lapham in 2009.
In January 2008, he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, though it would not affect his work on Scalped. Later that July, he wrote the Penguin issue of The Joker's Asylum.
After a 4-issue stint on Wolverine in 2007, Aaron returned to the character with the ongoing series Wolverine: Weapon X, launched to coincide with the feature film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Aaron commented, "With Wolverine: Weapon X we'll be trying to mix things up like that from arc to arc, so the first arc is a typical sort of black ops story but the second arc will jump right into the middle of a completely different genre," In 2010, the series was relaunched once again as simply Wolverine. He followed this with his current run on Thor: God of Thunder.
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January 14, 2016
There has been a murder in Battleworld. Someone call the Thors!
I know the Thors are Room's police force I just never envisioned them like this.
The Thor's are a police force right down to the police procedural level. It had me laughing seeing these various Thors going over details like they're all on Law and Order. They included the a-hole cop that somehow is still on the force.
There's even a Groot Thor who apparently only says, "I am Thor."
Thors was surprisingly a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to the next issues.
I know the Thors are Room's police force I just never envisioned them like this.
The Thor's are a police force right down to the police procedural level. It had me laughing seeing these various Thors going over details like they're all on Law and Order. They included the a-hole cop that somehow is still on the force.
There's even a Groot Thor who apparently only says, "I am Thor."
Thors was surprisingly a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to the next issues.
June 19, 2015
Another great Secret Wars tie-in! I really enjoyed this one. It's great to see all these different kinds of Thors in one story. They're a police force, Dooms police force. And the Thors stumble upon 5 murders. The victims all female and they have one very important thing in common. Thorlief Goman (Ultimate Thor) and Beta Ray Bill Thor are kind of the main characters in this. And they lead the investigation. The art and coloring are great. I loved the splash page with the Ghost Riders. The writing by Jason Aaron is great too, as always. There are some interesting twists and turns in this first issue, all very promising. The last page reveals the identity of the victims (something I kind of expected). I'm looking forward to the next issue!
March 2, 2018
The Thors! God-Emperor Doom's sanctioned police force enforce his laws and will across his patchwork realm of Battleworld. Thors of every variation, all worthy to carry their own hammers, and use them to smite the enemies of Doom.
The 2015-2016 miniseries Secret Wars by Jonathan Hickman ended the original Marvel multiverse and with it, all extant titles of the line. This included Jason Aaron's Thor. This Thors miniseries arose from the ashes and served as the opportunity for Aaron to do something to the character; that is to craft a police procedural across four issues with all the Thors he could muster.
This first chapter brought in the key characters for this story. They might be all Thors, but Aaron crafted different personalities for each.
1. Thorlief the Thunderer - named, "The Ultimate Thor", he's the main detective in charge of this mystery.
2. Beta Ray Thor - Thorlief's partner and senior.
3. Rune Thor - "Runey", he's an asshole and exists to make Thorlief's life miserable.
4. Destroyer Thor - Runey's silent (literally) partner.
5. Old King Thor - the chief of this precinct.
6. Thor Frog - Forensics.
This books only gets better with every re-read. Aaron has long given his Thor an investigator side to him and this story multiplies that exponentially. As for its place in Aaron's Thor bibliography, it hovers between ancillary and critical read. One could still enjoy Aaron's Thor without reading this, but a few threads made it to his main story, .
The 2015-2016 miniseries Secret Wars by Jonathan Hickman ended the original Marvel multiverse and with it, all extant titles of the line. This included Jason Aaron's Thor. This Thors miniseries arose from the ashes and served as the opportunity for Aaron to do something to the character; that is to craft a police procedural across four issues with all the Thors he could muster.
This first chapter brought in the key characters for this story. They might be all Thors, but Aaron crafted different personalities for each.
1. Thorlief the Thunderer - named, "The Ultimate Thor", he's the main detective in charge of this mystery.
2. Beta Ray Thor - Thorlief's partner and senior.
3. Rune Thor - "Runey", he's an asshole and exists to make Thorlief's life miserable.
4. Destroyer Thor - Runey's silent (literally) partner.
5. Old King Thor - the chief of this precinct.
6. Thor Frog - Forensics.
This books only gets better with every re-read. Aaron has long given his Thor an investigator side to him and this story multiplies that exponentially. As for its place in Aaron's Thor bibliography, it hovers between ancillary and critical read. One could still enjoy Aaron's Thor without reading this, but a few threads made it to his main story, .
June 20, 2015
Wow. That was not at all what I expected. Great start!
June 24, 2015
Wow. That was not at all what I expected. Great start!
June 30, 2015
Not at all what I expected from this one, as it's basically a detective story, and yet I thoroughly enjoyed it.
May 27, 2017
Liked the police procedural format, didn't like new Thor not being the center of attention for a while.
August 1, 2019
'Law and Order: Thors' or 'CSI: Battleworld'? Either way I'm totally into it!
There has to be a catchy procedural crime show pun I can make, and I will find it!!!
There has to be a catchy procedural crime show pun I can make, and I will find it!!!
July 31, 2022
Beta Ray Bill looks cool.
June 19, 2015
Generally not impressed with Secret Wars, but the idea of a cop show, where every cop is a version of Thor, is brilliant and Aaron seems to have a handle on how to balance the two ideas.
Fun read. One of the few of the SW minis where the writing lives up to the good idea.
Fun read. One of the few of the SW minis where the writing lives up to the good idea.
September 5, 2015
Buddy cop story where the cops are all different versions of Thor. I am not familiar with all of them, so I felt a little lost about the characters at times. There were definitely some numerous moments, like the Thor-only bar with hammer racks.
December 28, 2015
Forgot to log this.
This is a fun take on the Secret Wars/Battleworld thing that Marvel has going on: The Thors of the many Earths are clearly the correct police to have, right? The scenario: The same woman keeps being killed on different Earths, and now the Thors have to deal.
This is a fun take on the Secret Wars/Battleworld thing that Marvel has going on: The Thors of the many Earths are clearly the correct police to have, right? The scenario: The same woman keeps being killed on different Earths, and now the Thors have to deal.
June 7, 2016
Best Comic Ever! Definitely one for the fans!!
March 22, 2016
Purposely cliche, but that doesn't make it much better.
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