{"id":24328,"date":"2024-12-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=24328"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:40:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:40:47","slug":"deadline-2-thor-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/12\/30\/deadline-2-thor-51\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline 2\/Thor 51"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We\u2019re back to the mainline continuity, and we\u2019re starting with something silly. Not as silly as it looks. That is not a Scrier who\u2019s become a cop. That\u2019s some random other guy who someone probably should have pointed out looks just like Scrier, but did not. As part of the \u201cWho knows, maybe it will work?\u201d approach to comics Marvel had in this era, we have a 4-issue miniseries about Daily Bugle reporter Kat Farrell chasing down an increasingly dangerous story. Maybe with the Bugle\u2019s reduced presence in the Spider-Man books, this seemed necessary, but it\u2019s hard to imagine a Daily Bugle comic setting the sales charts ablaze. At any rate, the resource I use to try to make sure I read every Spider-Man appearance I own said he was in this, and it\u2019s been so long, I just believed them. Spider-Man appears on two pages of this comic. But since I went to the trouble of dragging it out, here they are, from writer Bill Roseman, penciler\/inker Guy Davis and colorist Dave Stewart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rosemann has come up before on the blog. At this point, the great Guy Davis will soon begin a very long stint drawing for Mike Mignola\u2019s Hellboy universe (Which Stewart already worked in), before they have a falling out so bad Davis quits comics for a much more lucrative career doing designs for film, most frequently for Guillermo Del Toro. Comics\u2019 loss is Del Toro\u2019s gain. Anyway, here\u2019s his typically quirky take on a Spidey Vs. Doc Ock fight. Good luck making that fit into continuity, but continuity is becoming a dirty word at Marvel, at this point.  Anyway, that\u2019s not the real post, the real post is Thor, Vol. 2 #51:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I bought this just for the blog. Been some time since we saw a book like that. Kind of incredibly, Dan Jurgens is still here, 51 issues into a 79 issue run. Very impressive! This volume only ran 85 issues, it\u2019s disappointing he didn\u2019t get to do the whole thing. Anyway, at this moment, his penciler is the great, underappreciated Tom Raney. He\u2019s inked by Scott Hanna and colored by Dave Kemp, so it\u2019s appropriate Spider-Man is here. How \u201chere\u201d is he? Will he be a major part of the issue?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019m thinking yes. Who says \u201chooking a ride\u201d instead of \u201chitching a ride?\u201d Weird start, Dan. I guess this is the first time Asgard has appeared on Earth. It won\u2019t be the last. No one, including Spider-Man, seems to know it\u2019s Asgard, tho, and as he leaps off that plane, Heimdall shoots it down. It explodes, and the fireball messes up Spidey\u2019s plan to web parachute in, causing him to crash into the roof of an Asgardian tavern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 Not a friendly greeting, but in fairness, he did destroy their roof. We cut to the UN, where everyone\u2019s wondering what\u2019s going on (And it\u2019s mentioned that areas around the world suffering drought are getting rain and volcanoes are quieting and such) when a representative of Asgard appears on a flying horse with a \u201ctake me to your leader\u201d bit. Informed the Secretary General was taken to safety, he just grabs a guy and makes him the ambassador. Back in Asgard, those dudes are still hunting Spider-Man, who\u2019s hiding in a barn. He webs them up as they come in and runs out. And, then fffffffinally\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jurgens\u2019 Spider-Man is so weird in this. He wrote him just fine previously, why is he talking like this? Meanwhile, the guy from the UN is brought before the ruler of Asgard. But it\u2019s not Odin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yeah, Odin is dead. Again. He dies all the time. But, this time is a little different, because rrrrrright after he died, Joe Quesada decreed that \u201cdead means dead\u201d in the Marvel U. If you killed somebody in your comic, they were not allowed to come back (Until this policy was reversed a few years later). Like any other time Odin was killed, the plan was to bring him back, but suddenly, Jurgens & Co. were stuck with Thor as ruler of Asgard indefinitely. Awkward!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey and Thor\u2019s argument about responsibility is rudely interrupted by the Chinese launching nukes at Asgard. The news reporter who\u2019s been cutting in and out of this issue tells her family she loves them as Thor streaks toward the missiles. Spider-Man thinks this is all way beyond him. Duh!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That was a pretty weird comic. Kind of strangely paced. Art team was totally crushing it, tho. Tom Raney was so good. I don\u2019t know why he never became a bigger name, look at this stuff. Not just any artist draws a great Thor and a great Spider-Man. Well, anyway, that does it for our double-detour. Next post, back to the main books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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