The Immortal Thor #16 - "Fire and Stone"

[laughing_tree]

We're not planning to treat him well, but in a loving way. In a way where Thor can take it, he's Thor. I treat heroes badly because they can take it. I'm going to knock Thor around a little bit, but you're going to see who Thor is as a result. You're going to see the core of Thor. -- Al Ewing

Comments

[thanekos]

Three guys who can get into knock-down drag-out fights with Thor, plus (King) Cobra.

[beyondthefringe]

To be fair, the Cobra/Hyde partnership was pretty solid back in the day.
As much as I hate Radioactive Man being used as an antagonist, I appreciate the narrative resonance of bringing together a quartet of Thor's older supervillain foes, and I'm assume that was Ewing's intentions as well. These four have deep history with Thor.

Maybe next we'll see the Wrecking Crew. (But hopefully not Absorbing Man, I don't want his own progress towards less-of-an-antagonist spoiled, but then again, Ewing helped put him and Titania on that path in Immortal Hulk...)

[lbd_nytetrayn]

I'd ask who came first, the Marvel one or The Simpsons one (probably the former), but then I realized it doesn't matter, since they both have the same owners now.

Also, this is why I hate the level of team name reuse we see here. Cute bit, I enjoyed it, but in the bigger picture...

[zylly]

I really love Thor fighting actual super villains here. Ewing has really been working to remind us Thor is as much super hero as he is sword and sorcery adventurer, something outside of his Avengers membership a lot of writers have neglected to focus on god stuff (Wonder Woman tends to have the same problem).

Hopefully, we’ll see Creel sometime in this run, and we can keep up his face turn.

I also really loved this issue’s potshot at how the name Thunderbolts has drifted completely off concept and is now just applied to whatever group Marvel has handy for trademark preservation