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I think i'm an issue behind, but I've enjoyed every last bit of "Everything Burns". Click Here For A SpoilerThe last I'd seen, Thor had just come back with his "army that won't burn" courtesy of Loki's twisty betrayal/helping. I knew it was going to be twisty and turny, but the twists and turns have been OUTSTANDING.
I can say with some certainty that when I read Thor in the 90's it was fun but not nearly this level of storytelling. It genuinely seems fresh, and that's really something considering the source material.
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quote:Originally posted by Conjure Lass: I think i'm an issue behind, but I've enjoyed every last bit of "Everything Burns". Click Here For A SpoilerThe last I'd seen, Thor had just come back with his "army that won't burn" courtesy of Loki's twisty betrayal/helping. I knew it was going to be twisty and turny, but the twists and turns have been OUTSTANDING.
I can say with some certainty that when I read Thor in the 90's it was fun but not nearly this level of storytelling. It genuinely seems fresh, and that's really something considering the source material.
Conjure Lass, have you ever read Walt Simonson's 1983-87 run on Thor? If you haven't, it's really good, and it's been reprinted in a variety of formats.
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Thanks for the suggestion! I was pretty small in the 80s, so I wouldn't have been able to read comics in those days! I'll go out and try to find the TPB of it!
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As I gear up for Jason Aaron's run on Thor, and Sif taking over JiM, I wanted to make sure I didn't lose focus on the incredible, seminal run that is wrapping up now: mainly, Keiron Gillen's run on JiM (which was a continuation on his prior Thor material). I finally caught up on "Everything Burns", reading the final part and the epilogue, which closes out Loki as the main character in JiM.
And though I've said it many times: wow. Just wow. What a fantastic run he's had, with an excellent finish! Gillen's voice is just so fresh and creative, and the levels of complexities to his plot / schemes and more importantly, to the character interactions, has been phenomenal.
My personal favorite part of this whole run, moreso than even Loki / Leah, has been Loki's numerous plots and tricks. Gillen pulled off so many, that for every one you could kind of see coming, there were two that totally caught you by surprise. And in the final issue, with Ikol at last being revealed, the whole thing came into true focus. Not that Ikol himself was much of a revelation, but rather, how the theme of the entire series (re: changing oneself) came into play.
Of course, the Leah / Loki relationship is #2. I'm not quite sure when it happened, but I became super-invested in seeing these two together. That's just good writing. The twist of Leah's future fate did not go unnoticer either.
One other item worth mentioning: the whole "young Loki", beloved kid brother of Thor bit at first seemed like it would never work for me. But the reason it did work was Kieron Gillen. He really sold the idea of an older brother / younger brother who believed in one another in a way that many lesser writers could not do.
I'm going to miss all of the supporting cast in a big way. The Disir perhaps the most.
What a terrific run. Hereafter, anything with "Kieron Gillen" on the cover will be sampled by me no matter what. I'm certainly interested in what Aaron has in mind, and I like Sif enough to continue JiM. But for now, I'm just enjoying the moment of completing one of the best runs in recent comic book memory.
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Does "future" really apply to Leah? [I really want to see a Gillen miniseries showing the transition]
As for EB... was it just me or was the Vanir plot pretty much dropped halfway through? It was an excuse for some cannon fodder on the one hand, and to get the "All-Mother" out the way/put Volstagg on the throne on the other, but was never, ever developed in its own right.
But, yeah, Kid Loki worked in a way that he frankly shouldn't have. Bravo Mr Gillen, bravo.
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Yeah, the Vanir plot seemed to not really matter in the bigger picture. It felt like something Fraction wanted to do and then pulled back on when it was clear Gillen's masterful larger plot didn't really call for it anymore.
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Quite possibly. I seem to recall that Fraction's run on Thor-proper (as opposed to Ages of Thunder/Reign of Blood/Man of War) was NOT well-received at large, and incoherency would have something to do with that. I never read it, myself.
PS: Check your PMs before the board shuts
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