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Don't know if this is common news and I missed it or if the announcement made recently (12/6) was missed by everyone. Along with writer J. Michael Straczynski, Olivier Coipel will be relaunching Thor late this year (2007).
Wizard has a couple of sketches by Olivier. I'd like to see more but his designs look good.
edit- corrected Olivier's last name in the title... been driving me crazy! ...er.
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Thor is one of my faves, and Copiel on it is going to RAWK!
I hate JMS's writing of course and think his Marvel work in the last five years is the single biggest piece of cumulative crap that I've ever read which basically pees on FF and Spidey history, but hey, if Thor under Copiel can get popular, that will be great for Thor fans.
Despite JMS, I'll be looking forward to this!
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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Hm...not Copiel, but I kinda like the pin-up of Thor here. Not sure if I'm familiar with Wes Craig, but that's certainly a majestic and powerful looking Thor.
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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The series will see the fabled land of the gods plunked into the flat, tranquil planes of the southern state, and the comedy of manners that ensues once the local people adopt the Asgardians and try to interact with them on a day-to-day basis, navigating the clash of cultures when gods and hapless Southern mortals come together.
Straczynski described the city’s arrival with a farmer walking up and knocking on the gates of Asgard. An irate Thor opens peers his head out to see what he wants. The farmer tells him that they’ve landed on his land, and they can’t have a whole city dropped in the middle of his property. Thor grunts, summons thunder and lightning, and proceeds to lift Asgard off the farmer’s land – by ten feet, hovering just high enough for people to walk and drive under.
Straczynski also added that Thor would not be speaking in “thees” and “thous”, since he never understood why a Norse god would speak in Middle English. In this series, Thor would speak in a kind of formal English of antiquity, not unlike Aragorn from “Lord Of The Rings”.
And two new Coipel images:
-------------------- My views are my own and do not reflect those of everyone else... and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Bastard, bastard, bastard! Verily, JMS is a disgrace to the profession of comic book writer.
My mortal friend Stealth shall see this as yet another reason to wonder if perhaps JMS the comic book writer and JMS her favorite animated cartoon writer of the 1980s are secretly two different people.
And let it be perfectly clear that the Amora which shall be appearing in this abomination is NOT ME!
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There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
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quote: The series will see the fabled land of the gods plunked into the flat, tranquil planes of the southern state,
Having grown up in said state, I'm pretty sure everyone I ever knew would scoff at the idea of being called a 'southern' state. I mean, yeah, sure, it's 'south' compared to say, North Dakota, but the only Southerner I knew in Oklahoma was a girl from West Virginia...
Luv ya, JMS, but you might want to write about what you know (or can make up).
At least he got the flat part right. Gotta go to Missouri to find hills.
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If Asgard has to be in the US shouldn't it be in Minnesota? You know cold... Scandanavian settlers.
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I agree with Tamper Lad. Minnesota all the way.
Anyways, I am excited about OC on the title but not JMS. I just didn't care for some of things JMS thinks about Thor. One being the return of donald blake. let it go man! let it go!
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quote:Originally posted by Set: [QUOTE] I mean, yeah, sure, it's 'south' compared to say, North Dakota, but the only Southerner I knew in Oklahoma was a girl from West Virginia...
Oddly enough, no true Southerner would consider West Virginia part of the South.
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I visit Oklahoma about eight times a year and I don't like the idea of it being played for laughs, if that's JMS's intentions. I generally think the worst of said writer, so we'll see what crap he puts forth, unless I luck out and he proves me wrong.
Despite his involvement, I am looking forward to a Thor comic. This could end up being great if we get the majesty of Asgard back with actual good Thor stories for the first time in ages. A Thor comic can remain based on Earth for a time with Thor in the real world and still be excellent, which has been proven tons of times before.
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