Immortal Thor #8 - "The Final Judgment"

[laughing_tree]

The God Who Could Be You? I think Thor is the most successful example so far of the “Hercules In New York” archetype, the mythological figure who has to balance the modern world and the world of myth, with one foot in both. If Hulk is where humanity connects with the monster inside, Thor—originally a human with a god inside them—is where humanity connects with myth. Thor is our guide to a world of wonders, and in turn we get to see our own world made wondrous through his eyes. In that way, he’s very much Hulk’s opposite number, which is what makes this a sequel of sorts. -- Al Ewing

Comments

[scorntx]

Given Ewing's comments about the similarities and differences between this series and Immortal Hulk, it's interesting the comparison between Atum and the Ones Above and Below, and from there the comparison between them and the Hulk.
(There's a tortured pun in there somewhere about "Atum smash", depending on how it's pronounced...)

And from even further on from there, the comparison between the Hulk and the FF that the penultimate issue of Immortal did.
... okay, overthinking a little, but not very seriously. Just idle musing.


Unusual that even in the flashbacks Utgard-Loki speaks so casually, compared to the more formal tones of Gaea.

(I'd swear the "Nrgl" might be a reference to Nergal, but if the other two are a ref to any gods, no idea?)

[cainofdreaming]

Hooded part of Mejed would suggest that it's derived from Medjed, of the Egyptian pantheon. If Kemur comes from that way too he might be Kemwer (as Kemur is the alternate name).

Also, yeah, Nergal is probably a better guess than where my mind initially went and was kinda puzzled about when did Disney gain the rights to Warhammer.

[scorntx]

Forgot about Medjed (which is impressive given he is... pretty distinctive even for the Egyptian lot).
The peril of trying to look up god names via Wikipedia.


Well, Marvel did do those Warhammer comics a little while back...
(though I can't imagine how anyone would mistake Nergal the god of disease, and Nurgle the god of disease. Totes different!)

[nyadnar17]

"The Earth is Not Always Kind"

Thank you. Like if Gaia is going to be a character I am so tired of her being depicted as a victim.

[bruinsfan]

Indeed. Nature is sometimes cruel, and it's survival of the fittest, not the nicest. Humanity might wipe out itself and most current megafauna, but life on earth (and thus, Gaia) will go on just fine in some form for at least the next few hundred million years.

[onsokumaru]

So, that's the artist who is going to draw the Nova 2099 story. I hope it will look as good as this.

[deh_tommy]

Oh man, the way Gaia’s drawn here is so cool. She’s like the mother of all Man-Things.