Pirate Thor!

[proteus_lives]

Greetings True Believers!

There are few universal truths but one of them is this: Marvel Adventures will make it all better.

For example, Thor and pirates!

Enjoy!



Avengers mansion: Thor decides to hold forth on his pirate adventures.

Thor is battling Skurge on the Rainbow Bridge and they both fell off, landing in the sea of Midgard and are picked up by separate pirate ships.



Skurge the Parrot-Puncher!



Nova (Thor's little buddy) is the skeptic.



Back to the pirates.



The lady takes Thor back to her village and everyone there is all "Thor, you're so cool." Then Skurge attacks!



Thor wins. And in the present takes everyone to the modern city where the village was. And the residents are still all like, "Oh Thor, you're so awesome."

Skurge returns but Thor, Nova and the Invisible Woman take him down.

Richie has a question for Sue.

Comments

[hyperactivator]

I love how Thor in this.

[drmcninja]

Marvel Adventures makes everything, and everyone better!

[aaron_bourque]

Well, did in the 90s, Rich.

[icon_uk]

Aside from needless cruelty to parrots (honestly, it didn't even SAY anything to deserve that sort of treatment) this is ever so slightly awesome! :)

[cainofdreaming]

It's a parrot that has lived its life on a pirate ship. If Skurge hadn't been so proactive they'd have had to up the book's rating.

[fifthie]

Ha ha ha god yes

[misterbug]

I was going to post something along the lines of 'Sad Pirate Captain Is Sad', but I realised, it's part of the job, and a necessary risk. Besides, now he has a new fireside story to add to his repertoire - how he lost his other eye, his other hand, AND his other parrot.

[nezchan]

But that was his favourite parrot!

[shanejayell]

*lol*

Cute! Is that Alan Davis art?

[proteus_lives]

Nein. Ronan Cliquet.

[arilou_skiff]

Thor disapproving of piracy feels all wrong.

[aaron_bourque]

Vikings hate pirates.

[arilou_skiff]

Vikings ARE pirates. That's literally what the term means.

[proteus_lives]

They're not Metal! enough for Thor.

[aaron_bourque]

Please. Pirates are pansies compared to Vikings. Pirates would never have a Led Zeppelin song about them.

[marco]

You're probably thinkin of Jack Sparrow type pirates. And these type of pirates.

[aaron_bourque]

. . . sigh.

I know what Vikings were. I know that they had a culture of piracy and sailing and reeving and stealing and all and on and on.

The idea that Vikings would not get along with more recent depictions of pirates and piracy is what is known in some circles as "a joke," or "irony." You see, some people like to tell "jokes" or employ "irony" for what is called "humor." There is a subset of the human population that appreciates "humor," treating it as good fun, and responding with laughter and glee.

The central theme much "humor" shares is to counter expectations. Most people, for example, would think that Pirates and Vikings, since they have so much in common, would get along. The "humor" comes in with the idea that Vikings don't, in fact, like Pirates, and in fact hate them. The countering of the expected, and to such an exaggerated degree, fuels the "humor," or "joke." Thus, people would laugh, or smile and nod and agree that it was in fact a mighty jest, and all in good fun.

"Humor" has become a substantial of human culture. There are even those who analyze "humor," digging into it, picking it apart, breaking it down to its component parts to understand it better. Alas, this usually destroys the "humor" inherent in "jokes" and such, so that most people will tell you "don't explain the 'joke,'" as it tends to "kill" the "humor."

Those people do have a point, but fail to realize that a joke that was not understood was dead before it arrived. Sometimes, the explanation of the "joke" may be enough to revive the "humor" the "joke" contained. However, this is dangerous, because such necrotized "humor" can be nothing more than a shambling hunk of starving refuse, hungry for brains and filled with hate for all "humor" surrounding it.

But occasionally, a revived "joke" returns even better than it was before, coming down from the cross of an unappreciated audience, saving us from our sin of not getting the joke!

[marco]

Lol, I didn't mention anything about vikings at all or their status as pirates, etc, etc.

I was just going off of the fact that you lumped all pirates together and are looking at them in kind of... pathetic terms. Hence, pirates like Jack Sparrow, or the ones here. Not like say, the Mugiwara crew or the viking/pirates/jerk-badasses of Vinland Saga (technically pirates, but kinda not).

[marco]

Also, one thing I must point out here, because I only barely skimmed your post but noticed the "Vikings don't, in fact, like Pirates, and in fact hate them" part. I may be reading this wrong, but if you're going on the point that Vikings hate pirates and thus cannot be pirates themselves (or something similar), Vikings are also the group that thought the Native Americans were savages and barbarians. Pot shouting at, stealing from and tormenting the kettle, no?

[aaron_bourque]

I only barely skimmed your post

If you're . . . not gonna read what I write . . . don't reply.

[marco]

Well I tried reading it at first, but I stopped when it seemed like it wasn't actually responding to what I said (or that maybe my own point wasn't clear enough). Just thought I needed to clarify what I was sayin just in case~.

[aaron_bourque]

It's fine. Only I wrote this big long thing, and it wasn't read . . .

Oh well. Ninjapeps read it. That's . . . that's fine, I guess.

[ninjapeps]

a "joke," you say? what manner of sorcery is this? do not seek to confound us with this strange devilry!

[blackruzsa]

But they DO have this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI6CfKcMhjY

[randyripoff]

Is Natasha awesome here or what?

[dr_archeville]

Very! (And what's better, I actually understood her technobabble!)

[pyrotwilight]

And I believe it was a plot point too.

[lieut_kettch]

The one-piece suit's a little umm... conservative for her though. Looks more like something Sue would wear.

[randyripoff]

Well, it is an all ages comic...I imagine 616 Natasha would likely be nude.

[proteus_lives]

and Ultimate Natasha would be spread-eagled.

[randyripoff]

Ultimate Natasha would be decapitated by a flying bulldozer...nude.

[kusonaga]

Uh, why?

[pyrotwilight]

Yeah, I have to echo kusonaga here.

Does Natasha have a history of it? It doesn't really seem like something she'd do.

[midnightvoyager]

My god, this is glorious.

[mola_ram]

So, when Thor fish, he catch the fish by the tail?
Then again, I suppose you don't go fishing for the Midgard Serpent unless you got at least some half decent fishing skills...

One thing that does slightly annoy me is that the final battle dont seem to take place on the pirate ships.
How awesome would it have been to see Thor and Skurge fighting on the pirate ship itself! Cannonballs from massive broadsides and pirates flying and swinging them!?!

*sigh* and now I got all wired up and have the urge to go listen to Running Wild

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZUN6-JwwMA

[grazzt]

So, when Thor fish, he catch the fish by the tail?

That wasn't the fish he caught, actually. That's bait for when he catches her a Great White Shark or a Sperm Whale. Good eating on those.

[mola_ram]

heh.
She didn't look THAT starved, but I suppose thor is the kind of guy who wants to be sure there'll be plenty to go around. :D