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THOR GIANT SIZE FINALE #1


Price: $3.99
iFanboy Community Pick of the Week Percentage: 13.4%

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  1. Avatar photo AmirCat says:
    November 23, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    Finally! Sheesh.

  2. Avatar photo nuclearman says:
    November 23, 2009 at 5:26 pm

    This should be awesome …. worth the wait

  3. Avatar photo PraxJarvin says:
    November 23, 2009 at 5:33 pm

    Sad to see this go. Awesome, though.

  4. Avatar photo cutty says:
    November 23, 2009 at 5:41 pm

    Its gonna make a nice collection, I hope there’s a real definitive "ending"

  5. Avatar photo ABirdseysView says:
    November 23, 2009 at 10:55 pm

    I also hope there is some sense of conclusion to this.

  6. Avatar photo KickAss says:
    November 24, 2009 at 3:16 am

    This will be excellent.  After JMS is gone, I expect this book to immediately start sucking.

  7. Avatar photo kndoubleu says:
    November 24, 2009 at 7:33 am

    They are bringing Thor into mainstream books soon. They will not allow his book to suddenly "start sucking."

  8. Avatar photo dneufeld says:
    November 24, 2009 at 11:02 am

    This is my last issue of Thor, as I have only read the JMS stuff.  I liked it overall, and I am also expecting big things from this particular issue.  I guess I just lost interest in Thor even though the issues have been consistently good.  After this it’s back to just one Marvel title, Amazing Spider-Man.

  9. Avatar photo mikeandzod21 says:
    November 24, 2009 at 12:22 pm

    Spoiler: at the end of this issue Thor makes a deal with mephesto and everything goes back to the way it was thirty years ago.

  10. flapjaxx says:
    November 24, 2009 at 6:43 pm

    Uh, according to Marvel.com this is actually going to be $4.99, not 3.99 as written above.

    And according to the early review up at comicsbulletin.com, the main JMS story is only 22 pages, and the rest is just backmatter reprint/preview filler.

    $5 for 22 pages of story. Way to kick JMS’s Thor in the ass on the way out, Marvel.

    (I’ll still buy it.)

  11. Avatar photo drakedangerz says:
    November 24, 2009 at 7:43 pm

    @flapjaxx-They did that for Old Man Logan too.

  12. Rustyautoparts says:
    November 24, 2009 at 8:19 pm

    Wow, that’s b.s. This better be good.

  13. Avatar photo ABirdseysView says:
    November 24, 2009 at 8:27 pm

    well, I already paid for it because of the wacky way my fledgling shop works.  and chances are I don’t already have the reprint material or possibly just not in color.  so everything will theoretically be new to me.

  14. Avatar photo DorianP says:
    November 25, 2009 at 12:03 pm

    I just checked my copy and it is still 3.99!

  15. Avatar photo comicBOOKchris says:
    November 26, 2009 at 12:25 am

    I both loved this issue and was dissapointed by it. I loved it because it was a typical JMS Thor story, which is constantly amazing. However, this is being billed as a finale, which is completely missleading, beacause it is anything but a finale. There was nothing conclusive about this issue, and if anything, I would say that this is the middle of the overall story arc. The only thing minorly conclusive was the fate of Bill, but looking at the previews for the next issue, this part of the story isnt even finished yet. Great issue, but completely mislabeled.

  16. Rustyautoparts says:
    November 26, 2009 at 11:52 am

    @comicBOOKchris: I agree. I was expecting a nice big epic conclusion, and this was more like a big epic continuation. I feel like Kieron has a pretty good handle on the story and characters, so I’m still excited for the future, but we’ll see. I did feel like it was a good symbolic finale with the final scene. JMS will be missed.

  17. Avatar photo 400yrs says:
    November 26, 2009 at 10:37 pm

    @comicBOOKchris:  I agree 100%.  This is my last issue of Thor.  I didn’t care for Gillen’s Thor one shots much.  JMS’s run was excellent, but I wish it could’ve wrapped up a little more.  3/5 just because of the way Marvel handled this.

  18. Avatar photo ABirdseysView says:
    November 27, 2009 at 11:42 am

    what Thor one-shots did Gillen write?

     but yes, I agree, there was little that was conclusive in this.  we know JMS wasn’t too keen on being involved with Siege.  perhaps knowing he would not be able to write the ending he was truly building to, he tried to lead into something Gillen would be able to pick up easily. 

  19. Avatar photo Chunkahash says:
    November 27, 2009 at 2:12 pm

    JMS needs to suck it up and become a team player if he wants to write for Marvel

  20. Avatar photo 400yrs says:
    November 27, 2009 at 5:38 pm

    @ABirdseysView:  Gillen wrote the Beta Ray Bill books.  I think there were three of them and maybe a one-shot.  I didn’t care for it.

  21. Avatar photo PraxJarvin says:
    November 27, 2009 at 6:50 pm

    This was really disappointing on all fronts. The story was rushed, the art was muddy and uneven. It contained some rather large time jumps to bring us to some semblance of an ending. Disappointing. I may pick up Gilleon’s first arc just so this story can be "done." 3/5 for me. And another flaccid ending tacked onto a great run by JMS because of stupid editorial decisions.

    @Chunkahash Marvel needs to stop promising its writers they can do whatever the hell they want with their characters and then saying "Oh, wait, that’s not what we actually meant." (See: Morrison’s New X-Men, Mark Waid’s Fantastic Four, JMS on Spider-Man, JMS on Fantastic Four)

  22. Avatar photo ProjectX2 says:
    November 28, 2009 at 3:32 am

    Disappointing "finale". I’ll miss you, JMS.

  23. yamamoto says:
    November 29, 2009 at 1:00 am

    What ever happened to the Odin-force or power or whatever they called it?  Wasn’t that the almost omnipotent power that the head of asgard inherit?

    Been following and reading Thor for a long time, I like how the titile ended a few years back, Thor has the odin-force and discovered the power of the runes… he was kicking butt, he actually pulled loki’s freaking head off… now that was some omnipotent shit!!

    This whole resurrection of asgard and all the asgardians feels diminished.  Thor made a floating city… and all the ‘gods’ are just living in the city above oklahoma.  They were supposed the be asgardian gods… GODS… detities, celestial beings… blah blah, with the head of the pantheon weilding power that can create life and death, the odin-force.  At least that’s how Odin used to keep all the other asgardian gods in their place, that was what loki hunger for.

    Now, these argardians are no more powerfu and mortal than a bunch of mutants… Dr.Doom is dissecting them?  Really?  If odin were still around, he would unleashed some ‘medieval’ odin-force on the doctor’s ass.  But instead, we have Balder wimpering and calling for thor.

  24. Avatar photo cutty says:
    November 30, 2009 at 9:29 am

    I’m on the same page as everyone else.  I was hoping for a finale, but instead I got a segue

  25. Avatar photo Sai says:
    December 1, 2009 at 3:31 am

    I’m a little miffed that they charged $4.99 for only 23 pages of actual comic, then a few pages preview of the next issue, which might have been a bit cool if it was several weeks or a month or so away and not coming out the next fucking week, and then just a reprints. God, Marvel is really pissing me off lately with this kind of crap. JMS will be missed, hopefully Gillen will do a good job with it.

  26. Avatar photo JimBilly4 says:
    December 4, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    While I admit I didn’t look very carefully, I couldn’t find credits for the reprint of Thor’s first appearance (Journey Into Mystery #83, I believe). According to wikipedia, it was done by editor-plotter Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber, and penciller Jack Kirby. (Also inked by Dick Ayers). I was curious because it really popped more than a lot of silver age Marvel reprints I have looked at recently (see List Hulk reprint, for example) and I think it might be the coloring, which does not look original at all. If someone redid the coloring recently and it helped bring back some of that silver age wham! I think they deserve some credit.

  27. Avatar photo nuclearman says:
    January 21, 2010 at 8:51 pm

    i think it was a finale for bill wasn’t it?

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