{"id":22138,"date":"2024-07-23T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=22138"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:43:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:43:23","slug":"thor-17-iron-man-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/07\/23\/thor-17-iron-man-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Thor 17\/Iron Man 21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After all these years, here\u2019s a first for the blog: I don\u2019t think Spider-Man will appear in this post. Every post is tagged \u201cSpider-Man,\u201d but this one won\u2019t be. I remembered that PPSM was wrapped up in this weird crossover event, and planned to cover it, but I forgot he is completely uninvolved until PPSM 11, which is part 3 of 4. It seemed like it would be weird to only cover parts 3 and (Presumably?) 4, so I decided to do this quick summary post for parts one and two in Iron Man, Vol. 3 #22 and Thor, Vol. 2 #17, respectively. And that\u2019s how we\u2019ve arrived at covering Part One of The Eighth Day! Whatever that is, right? It\u2019s all about the Juggernaut. Perhaps fitting, as we follow the X-Men\u2019s immovable foe with their unstoppable one. We\u2019re back with Dan Jurgens, John Romita, Jr., Klaus Janson and Gregory Wright in Thor\u2019s corner of the Marvel U, with Wright helped out by Mark Hicks this month. This weird crossover came at a really awkward time for Spider-Man, and he\u2019s not alone, as this issue opens with Thor being thrown to the ground in NYC in a blast of green energy that leaves him in a crater, already in battle with Enrakt, one of a trio of old Thor villains called the Enchanters, who seems to be doing pretty well. Enrakt tells us his bros are about to kill Odin while Enrakt kills Thor, but that seems unlikely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The power! The energy! The GOAT! John Romita, Jr. Fan Blog 230055. Enrakt inexplicably tosses the hammer back to Thor and teleports out, a process that takes a surprising 2 pages to complete and gives Thor a lot of time to say thee nay and such, but right as he\u2019s preparing to follow through the portal, he notices a swath of devastation moving through the city below him, and it turns out, that\u2019s\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s amusing how many of Juggernaut\u2019s appearances on this blog are just him passing through. Here the action is interrupted by one of the all-time worst marketing things in comics, the first installment of Fast Lane. Fast Lane is a 4-part comic inserted into every Marvel Comic for 4 months wherein Spider-Man helps kids learn they shouldn\u2019t smoke weed in the most lame and awkward way possible, all-but encouraging them to try it. Oh no. This is All The Spider-Mans I have. I have to cover Fast Lane, don\u2019t I? If I did that Marvel Mart insert\u2026 oh no. Well, that should probably be its own post. Well, anyway, Thor and Juggernaut proceed to have the kind of earthshaking battle only John Romita, Jr. could render in a post-Kirby world for several pages, and it\u2019s glorious. Both combatants note that Juggs is even more powerful than usual, and Juggy helpfully mentions some power is drawing him somewhere, and  nothing can stop the Juggernaut, and that\u2019s just the law even on a normal day, so\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oof! But lo, the exposition hath arrived!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Eight Day Why, that\u2019s what it says on the cover!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Loki is yet again impersonating Odin. He\u2019s into it. While he\u2019s interrupted, we check back in with Thor catching up with Juggernaut and attacking again. And it once again goes badly for him, but as Juggernaut is beginning to crush him unconscious and maybe even dead, his new siblings show up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You\u2019d kinda hope the new people would have some visual consistency with Juggernaut, but I guess not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So that brings us to IM 22, by Kurt Busiek (Aided here by Roger Stern!), Sean Chen, a buncha inkers, and Steve Olliff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When Heroes Return started, I bought into Avengers, Captain America and Iron Man (And then Thor, but he came back later). Iron Man was the only book I dropped. I hung in there for 13 issues, but while Busiek and Perez were working magic every month in Avengers, Iron Man just didn\u2019t grab me. I\u2019d never been a huge fan, had only owned or read a handful of issues due to Romita, Jr. drawing them (That guy\u2019s like a bad penny in my comics history!). I didn\u2019t dislike Iron Man, and have always enjoyed him as an Avenger, but the adventures of the billionaire playboy superhero didn\u2019t speak to me. This was probably not helped by the perfectly serviceable but pretty bland art of Sean Chen. I mean no offense. He\u2019s a better comic artist than I ever coulda been. But his stuff just isn\u2019t too exciting to my eye. We join this book, too, already in progress, and it seems Tony has unearthed yet another sibling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Like I said, I quit buying this book almost a year prior, so I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on. Is that Princess Zanda and Mr. Little from Jack Kirby\u2019s Black Panther down there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Uh, ok. The other people on page one never come back, so I guess I\u2019ll never know. Unless I look it up. Ok, I looked it up. It looks like Stern began co-writing the very month after I dropped the book. Also issue 21 was a prelude to this event, but I didn\u2019t know that til now, and yes, that was Princess Zanda and Mr. Little, famous hunters of treasure. That\u2019s pretty fun. Well, Tony\u2019s been narrating all this to Jarvis, who lets him know about Thor\u2019s run-in with Juggernaut & Co., and now we got a stew goin\u2019. Meanwhile, a guy at a Stark-Fujikawa ocean platform setup to study \u201cgeothermal forces\u201d is called to dive into the ocean and find a sunken temple. How many of these guys are there? I don\u2019t remember this at all, of course. There\u2019s a page of Iron Man subplot action, and then whaddaya know, the rest of the people on page one do come back. That makes more sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, I guess there\u2019s gonna be 8 of them. That\u2019s\u2026 a lot! How are 3 superheroes gonna deal with 8 Juggernauts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Man, there\u2019s a lot going on in this book. The gang shows up and accosts this \u201cPigman\u201d guy, and then Count Zorba becomes the next Juggernaut, Carnivore, who looks kinda like Blastaar. He starts attacking the various people as Tony slips away to become Iron Man again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As IM and Carny slug it out, that guy Mann starts compiling runes from some of the temples and putting together more exposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I wonder how many of these existed before this event. Cyttorak, Ikonn, Raggadorr, Watoomb and Valtorr, I have at least heard of, I think all in Dr. Strange stuff (Him having the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak has always seemed odd to me, in light of Juggernaut\u2019s whole deal). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carny says he won\u2019t leave without killing Iron Man, but then Thor shows up to even the odds a little, and the lady one, Tempest, who controls \u201call of nature,\u201d opens a hole in the Earth and just chucks the heroes in it, sealing it behind them so the Exemplars can leave. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that sounds bad. One assumes contestant #8 will be found in the pages of PPSM 11, next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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