Thor Archive

  • The Comics Console: San Diego Comic Con 2010

    The Comics Console: San Diego Comic Con 2010

    Lots of huge video game news this year at Comic Con, and for me personally, the most exciting, but at the same time the most frightening, news was the teaser poster for the video game tie-in to next year’s Green Lantern movie. Green Lantern: Rise...

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  • Marvel Reviews: Avengers #2

    Marvel Reviews: Avengers #2

    Publisher: Marvel Writer: Brian Michael Bendis Artist: John Romita Jr. Cover: John Romita Jr. **Minor Spoilers** “Next Avengers pt 2″: One more member joins the ranks of the Avengers, and that is former Marvel Boy, Noh-Varr of the Kree. He is the individual that has...

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  • Marvel Reviews: Thor and the Warriors Four #2 & #3

    Marvel Reviews: Thor and the Warriors Four #2 & #3

    Thor and The Warriors Four #2 & #3 Publisher: Marvel Writer: Alex Zalben Artist: Gurihuru **Minor Spoilers** The Mighty Thor and Beta Ray Bill have been friends for a long time, and in issue #2 of this mini they start off reminiscing about beating up...

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  • Gotta Have It! Figure Edition: Marvel Universe: Thor

    Gotta Have It! Figure Edition: Marvel Universe: Thor

    When Thor returned from the darkness of Ragnarok, he found a world far different from the one he’d left behind.  He therefore resolved to concern himself more with Asgard and its people than with the problems of humanity.  Even so, the closeness he felt with...

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  • Marvel Reviews: Thor and the Warriors Four #1

    Marvel Reviews: Thor and the Warriors Four #1

    Hello everybody, and welcome to a special edition of my Reviews! This is going to be a unique review for me because it will only be on one book. Usually I do three or four books at a shot, but this one is getting special...

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  • Marvel Previews: Thor and the Warriors Four

    Marvel Previews: Thor and the Warriors Four

    Hey everybody, just a quick shout out to remind you of a new limited series starting this week called Thor and the Warriors Four. It showcases not only the Son of Odin himself, but the juvenile hi-jinx of Power Pack as well. I did an interview with...

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  • Marvel Snapshot: Character Spotlight: Thor

    Marvel Snapshot: Character Spotlight: Thor

    Salutations to everybody reading this week’s Marvel Snapshot! I’m going to continue with the Siege theme in anticipation of the final issue coming out this month and spotlight the Son of Odin, Thor! This character is near and dear to my heart because he is...

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  • ComicAttack.net Salutes PEZ!

    ComicAttack.net Salutes PEZ!

    In our lives we all have those comfort items. Maybe it’s putting on an album like Cheap Date by The Coral or playing a good old SNK Neo-Geo videogame like Metal Slug or Sengoku. For many though, it comes in the form of tiny sugar-candy...

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  • Disney Announces The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes!

    Disney Announces The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes!

    Disney announced that The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, a new animated series featuring Marvel’s finest, will debut in the fall on Disney XD. Marvel Animation will be producing 52 episodes staring the usual suspects of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Hulk, Giant Man, and Wasp....

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  • Alex Zalben talks Thor and the Warriors Four!

    Alex Zalben talks Thor and the Warriors Four!

    Coming to a comic book shop near you in April is a new limited series from Marvel titled Thor and the Warriors Four. This four issue story is written by Alex Zalben (Hulk Team-Up #1) and illustrated by Gurihiru (a team of Japanese illustrators- Sasaki on...

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  • Those Who Came Before: Walter Simonson

    Those Who Came Before: Walter Simonson

    This month we take a look at a man who has shaken things up in the world of comics a time or two. He has gotten away with giving Mjolnir to an alien warrior with a face that resembles that of a horse, and even...

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  • Marvel Reviews: Siege #1

    Marvel Reviews: Siege #1

    Publisher: Marvel Comics Writer: Brian Michael Bendis Artist: Oliver Coipel Cover: Oliver Coipel “Siege pt 1″: Things are about to change in the Marvel Universe yet again, and it begins here in Siege. This event has been built up over the past year and really...

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  • Ye Olde School Cafe’: Mutant Massacre pt 3

    Ye Olde School Cafe’: Mutant Massacre pt 3

    Greetings fellow comic book enthusiasts and prepare yourselves for the bloody conclusion to X-Men: Mutant Massacre, in this week’s Ye Olde School Cafe’! This week’s column will prove to be the most savage yet, and the body count will prove it. We’ll also see the good...

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  • Ye Olde School Cafe’: Mutant Massacre pt 2

    Ye Olde School Cafe’: Mutant Massacre pt 2

    Welcome back for part 2 of Mutant Massacre in Ye Olde School Cafe’. This week you’ll see what life changing event forced Warren Worthington into the role of Apocalypse’s Horseman of Death. Also you’ll get a taste of just how insane Victor Creed can be...

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  • Ye Olde School Cafe’: Mutant Massacre pt 1

    Ye Olde School Cafe’: Mutant Massacre pt 1

    Hello everyone, and welcome back to another installment of Ye Olde School Cafe’.This week, I’ll be continuing with Marvel’s first mutant family, The X-Men. The TPB (trade paperback),  X-Men: Mutant Massacre, pretty much says it all. We see in the pages of this story, a plethora of...

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  • Marvel Snapshot: Looking Forward to the Future

    Marvel Snapshot: Looking Forward to the Future

    It’s time to roll out another edition of Marvel Snapshot. This week I’ll be talking about what I’m looking forward to in 2010. Specifically, things like, what’s going on with Magneto? Is the return of Steve Rogers hollow? Who is Hope, and what will she...

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  • Matt Fraction to Write Thor!

    Matt Fraction to Write Thor!

    Yes it’s true Marvelites! Current The Ivincible Iron Man and Uncanny X-Men scribe Matt Fraction will assume writing duties on the Thor ongoing series according to the L.A. Times. Fraction was quoted as saying, ” I got obsessed with the character, because for the first...

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  • Marvel Snapshot: Marvel vs. DC

    Marvel Snapshot: Marvel vs. DC

    Greetings friends, and welcome to Marvel Snapshot! This week is going to be the most controversial column by far. I want to discuss why I think Marvel Downs DC. I’m sure there will be lots of debate and people who ride the fence, but I...

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  • Marvel Snapshot: Siege

    Marvel Snapshot: Siege

    Welcome back to another edition of Marvel Snapshot. This week I’ll be giving you a peek at Marvel’s upcoming blockbuster event “Siege.” I’ve got lots of cool pics and even more opinion to go with it so lets do this! Let us begin with a...

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  • Ye Olde School Cafe’: Thor: The Eternals Saga pt 4

    Ye Olde School Cafe’: Thor: The Eternals Saga pt 4

    Welcome my friends to the soul searing conclusion of Thor: The Eternals Saga! This is going to be quite a long journey to get to the end of this story, but trust me it’s worth it. Now when we last saw our hero he was...

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  • Ramblings and Reviews

    Ramblings and Reviews

    Welcome once again to a peek at my weekly pull list. Let me start off this edition with Thor: Annual #1. I’ll first let everyone know that I don’t regularly read the ongoing series, but I did pick up #600 and the recent one-shot as...

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  • Ye Olde School Cafe’: Thor: The Eternals Saga pt 3

    Ye Olde School Cafe’: Thor: The Eternals Saga pt 3

    Welcome to part three of  Thor: The Eternals Saga. This is easily the most intriguing and confusing portion of this story. I left you last week with some teasers and will deliver for sure right now. To recap, we have seen Thor at odds with...

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  • Ye Olde School Cafe’: Thor: The Eternals Saga pt 2

    Ye Olde School Cafe’: Thor: The Eternals Saga pt 2

    When last I left  yon fellow adventurers, Thor and his new friends the Eternals (well, old friends I guess really), were headed for the Eternals homeland of Olympia. There they are going to try and gain the help of the rest of their fellow super...

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  • Ye Olde School Cafe’: Thor: The Eternals Saga pt 1

    Ye Olde School Cafe’: Thor: The Eternals Saga pt 1

    Welcome to the inaugural edition of  Ye Olde School Cafe. This weekly column will focus on pre-1990 trades and graphic novels. I am going to start off  with one of my all time favorites, Thor: The Eternals Saga. The story is by Roy Thomas with pencils...

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