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Thor Corps #1-4
Thor Corps
Collects Thor Corps #1-4; Thor (1966) #337, 384, 433 & material from 438-441.
Like Thor? Want more? You'll adore the Thor Corps for sure! After all, they fought a Thor War. Hammers clash when Mjolnir-wielder of the future Dargo Ktor is tricked into fighting Eric Masterson, the replacement Thor, in the modern day. As they bring the thunder, Beta Ray Bill joins the party with his mighty mallet Stormbreaker! But will the titanic trio put their differences aside in time to knock Zarrko the Tomorrow Man into next week? After Eric takes on the mantle of Thunderstrike, the one true Thor makes the Corps four on a multi-dimensional quest to rescue the wife of Dargo's arch-foe, Demonstaff! Plus: Revisit the debuts of Dargo and Bill, and the day Eric first proved himself worthy! It's Hammer Brothers Time!
Like Thor? Want more? You'll adore the Thor Corps for sure! After all, they fought a Thor War. Hammers clash when Mjolnir-wielder of the future Dargo Ktor is tricked into fighting Eric Masterson, the replacement Thor, in the modern day. As they bring the thunder, Beta Ray Bill joins the party with his mighty mallet Stormbreaker! But will the titanic trio put their differences aside in time to knock Zarrko the Tomorrow Man into next week? After Eric takes on the mantle of Thunderstrike, the one true Thor makes the Corps four on a multi-dimensional quest to rescue the wife of Dargo's arch-foe, Demonstaff! Plus: Revisit the debuts of Dargo and Bill, and the day Eric first proved himself worthy! It's Hammer Brothers Time!
248 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1993
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Tom DeFalco
2,479 books108 followersTom DeFalco is an American comics writer and editor, well-known for his association with Marvel Comics and Spider-Man.
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April 12, 2018
It's a superhero team-up where all three team members are Thors! And they're not just generic Thors either. One is an 80's punk rocker, one is Dog the Bounty Hunter, and one is a horse-faced cyborg named Bill! Sounds pretty hilarious right? Well, I wouldn't say Thor Corps is intended to be a comedy, but it is best approached with a healthy sense of humour.
I'm not gonna lie, this wasn't a exactly thrill-a-minute page turner. It's a little heavy on the panels and early on I felt bogged down, especially when the story wasn't moving swift enough for my liking. However it picks up at about the halfway point when a troubled fellow by the name of Demonstaff starts to make reality his plaything. Watching a gang of Thors bounce around from one reality to the next was a highlight. We're also treated to the origin stories of Beta Ray Bill and Dargo Ktor, as well as an early story about Eric Masterson finding the confidence to embrace his new mantle as Thor.
Thor Corps isn't an essential read, but it's a fun one.
I'm not gonna lie, this wasn't a exactly thrill-a-minute page turner. It's a little heavy on the panels and early on I felt bogged down, especially when the story wasn't moving swift enough for my liking. However it picks up at about the halfway point when a troubled fellow by the name of Demonstaff starts to make reality his plaything. Watching a gang of Thors bounce around from one reality to the next was a highlight. We're also treated to the origin stories of Beta Ray Bill and Dargo Ktor, as well as an early story about Eric Masterson finding the confidence to embrace his new mantle as Thor.
Thor Corps isn't an essential read, but it's a fun one.
February 6, 2024
An ironic name to an assemblage of thunderous warriors bearing the power, similar or otherwise, of Thor, when the original thunder god isn't part of the original line-up.
A Thor Corps was a great idea when you had several characters brandishing their own magic hammers, Mjolnir or some other variant. Reading this collection of stories was a different matter. I think it was a wasted opportunity to utilize Beta Ray Bill as a character better, and having two unlikable characters with no chemistry in Future Thor and Eric Masterson was a pain. It was a waste of fine John E. Workman lettering in the miniseries that carried the name of this collection.
The only good comic included here is one of the greatest. It is the seminal first issue of Walt Simonson's run, and the first appearance of Bill. Otherwise, this is a 1-star book. Thor #337 carried this entire collection on its shoulders to 3 stars.
A Thor Corps was a great idea when you had several characters brandishing their own magic hammers, Mjolnir or some other variant. Reading this collection of stories was a different matter. I think it was a wasted opportunity to utilize Beta Ray Bill as a character better, and having two unlikable characters with no chemistry in Future Thor and Eric Masterson was a pain. It was a waste of fine John E. Workman lettering in the miniseries that carried the name of this collection.
The only good comic included here is one of the greatest. It is the seminal first issue of Walt Simonson's run, and the first appearance of Bill. Otherwise, this is a 1-star book. Thor #337 carried this entire collection on its shoulders to 3 stars.
May 7, 2019
L'albo raccoglie una miniserie celebrativa.
Dal punto di vista artistico, la cosa migliore è la copertina, che fu anche venduta, negli USA, come un poster a se stante. Pat Oliffe e Ron Frenz erano decisamente sottotono, e la storia di De Falco risente enormemente della necessità di trovare una minaccia all'altezza di 4 Thor con 3 martelli provenienti da tempi diversi. Quindi la storia è molto bleah, i disegni quasi, ma la copertina di questa edizione è una bellezza. 1 stella e mezza.
Dal punto di vista artistico, la cosa migliore è la copertina, che fu anche venduta, negli USA, come un poster a se stante. Pat Oliffe e Ron Frenz erano decisamente sottotono, e la storia di De Falco risente enormemente della necessità di trovare una minaccia all'altezza di 4 Thor con 3 martelli provenienti da tempi diversi. Quindi la storia è molto bleah, i disegni quasi, ma la copertina di questa edizione è una bellezza. 1 stella e mezza.
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March 10, 2018Stand-in Thor Eric Masterson, who's fairly nineties and has bad hair, meets a future stand-in Thor who's even more nineties, despite coming from a corporate dystopia centuries hence, and has still worse hair. By ancient tradition they have a misunderstanding and a scrap before Beta Ray Bill, the best Thor, turns up to bang their heads together. At which point they all team up to sort out some time-travelling bozo I've already forgotten. Then, some more of the same, except this time it's a dimension-travelling bozo and the original Thor turns up too. It's basically terrible, but it does have Beta Ray Bill, and I bloody love that horse-faced space dude.
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