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1. BALDER THE BRAVE THOR SIMONSON READING ORDER FULL
2. BALDER THE BRAVE THOR SIMONSON READING ORDER SERIES

3 3 Although, there is no Jane Foster save for a cameo appearance late in the volume. I mention this primarily to assure those who are unfamiliar with the hero outside his appearance in recent films that this omnibus edition of his adventures is as fine a place to start as any-if one is interested in reading the source material. Beyond this trick allowing Simonson to focus on Thor’s godhood, it also gives new readers an easier time of negotiating the character and his place in Marvel’s mythology-primarily by eliminating the whole human swath of his (former) supporting cast. Simonson re-crafts the god of thunder right from the beginning of his run and almost immediately does away with Donald Blake, allowing Thor to be Thor for the duration of nearly fifty issues 2 2 There *are* a couple of delicious and notable exceptions. I had a basic understanding of Thor’s identity as Donald Blake and the fact that he would be returned to frail human form if he was separated from his hammer for too long.

BALDER THE BRAVE THOR SIMONSON READING ORDER SERIES

I then went ahead and picked up the rest of the series over several months (and visits to several comic shops). Though my portrait of Simonson’s hero was drastically incomplete, I was intrigued. Five years later, in rereading Power Pack to feed a nostalgia for my juniour high days, I pulled out the one or two issues of Thor I owned and reread them as well. 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.

BALDER THE BRAVE THOR SIMONSON READING ORDER FULL

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.