balder the brave thor simonson reading order

1 1 Sadly, because these crossover issues were interruptions in Simonson’s story (one, for instance, involved Secret Wars II's the Beyonder), they provided very little insight into the grand tapestry Simonson intended to convey.

I picked up the relevant issues of The Mighty Thor in order to get the full story, and while those issues weren’t necessarily enough to instantly win me over, they gave me a foothold into Simonson’s vision of Thor. In the mid-‘80s, I happened across Simonson’s Thor via some crossovers with Simonson’s wife’s own series, Power Pack, and Claremont’s New Mutants. It was Walt Simonson who turned Thor into a viable character for me. And worse: their adventures, from what I gathered, were far divorced from the mythological tales I had learned as a youth.

The Asgardians were garishly colourful and bizarrely spoke in a kind of false Elizabethan English.

Thor and Odin and Loki and all the Asgardian menagerie seemed goofy and stilted, an artifact of an era of publishing when I imagined readers were happy to read corny BIF-BAM-POW comics. As related in my review of Langridge and Samnee’s wonderful Thor: The Mighty Avenger, despite years of enjoyment of Marvel’s superhero-verse, I held a marked wariness of the company’s Norse pantheon.

Balder the brave thor simonson reading order