Free Comic Book Day: Cap and Thor: The Mighty, Fighting Avengers

[proteus_lives]

Greetings True Believers!

Another FCBD offering. Cap and Thor travel to Camelot to stop Loki's shenanigans.

Enjoy!



Camelot: Olden Times. Loki has imprisoned Merlin and is stealing his power via a magic belt-buckle. Merlin manages to enchant a drinking cup for help...

1942: Cap and his commandos bust up a Nazi bunker and find a Nazi magic stash. Cap picks an old cup and zap!

Bergen, Oklahoma, present day: Jane is rummaging through a box of relics and asking Thor to ID them. He's bored and she's short-tempered. Her gambler brother is asking her for money and she doesn't know what to do. He picks up an old cup and zap!

Thor and Cap find themselves in Camelot. They talk and trash some brigands before they can attack King Arthur. KA introduces them to "Merlin".



KA gives Cap some armor and reveals that they just got back from their Grail-Quest.

Thor speaks to Loki.



They get attacked by a multi-headed dragon. Thor and Cap defeat it but Loki runs off with the Grail.

Loki tries to use the Grail to level-up but Thor recognizes the belt-buckle because Jane showed it to him in the future. Cap smashes it. That act releases Merlin who banishes Loki to a void. That bums Thor out.

M then sends the Avengers home. Time for Respeck knuckles.







One of the cores of the Mightyverse: everyone, hero and villain, must be adorable.

Comments

[tsunamiwombat]

This is the lost story the cancelation of Mighty Thor almost took from us, isn't it? I remember it signing off with "Next Issue: CAPTAIN AMERICA! oh wait..."

[sinisterlink]

Just commenting to say your icon made me lol. Oh, Heimdall.

[halloweenjack]

You need to lose that apostrophe in "sees", though.

[schala_kid]

Sooo want an icon of that panel with Loki shushing and winking (or an animated one with him that scene and Thor looking grumpy).

This comic had to be the best one from the Free Comic book day! Thor and Cap bonding (and being adorkable), Loki abeing mischievous and a trickster and not angry all the time, grumpy Thor riding in the back seat to Loki, Steve vs Loki, the parallel between Jane and Thor's brothers, that last scene!


Why oh why did they canceled these titles again? And then they tease us with this awesome story, oh Marvel :(

[darkknightjrk]

"Loki abeing mischievous and a trickster and not angry all the time,"

Really? I haven't read the whole story--when I got to my shop today they were ALL OUT of the free comics :'(--but from what I'm reading, he sounds a lot more snide and angry than anything I've actually read of him.

[tsunamiwombat]

Nothing that i'd call great (just a quick hackjob with a basic editor), someone who does images could do you better.

But, feel free to snaffle.

[proteus_lives]

There needs to be a Langridge/Samnee Avengers book.

THERE NEEDS TO BE.

[rebecky_mo]

This was the first comic I scooped up today, and it was everything I wanted and more.

...except it was one last one shot for a series THEY CANCELLED. *rages yet again at the injustice*

I'm so making icons of this book; some of the facial expressions are priceless.

[drakyndra]

Regeneration?

Loki watches Doctor Who?

[darkknightjrk]

Ah, it never is just me. :D

[proteus_lives]

Since coming through Thor's TV, yep.

[shatners_bassoon]

An even more entertaining nod and a wink when you consider 1989's Battlefield suggested that the Doctor was actually Merlin.

[valtyr]

This was really cute - I love how excited Steve was about getting armour, and the Jane and Thor stuff. I want more like this. All the expressions are great.

[rebecky_mo]

Alas, Thor: The Mighty Avenger was cancelled after a paltry 8 issues; this was a story they never got to run until now. *resists urge to rage, as it's too early in the morning*

All the art and writing is just like this, so I highly recommend the two TPB's they've put out on the book's full run.

[tsunamiwombat]

I love Thors annoyed faces.

[halloweenjack]

Dude's all about the stinkeye, isn't he?

[sinisterlink]

Loki saying, "Don't blow this for me, bro" makes me laugh much more than it should.

[tsunamiwombat]

At first I read it as "Don't taze me, bro" for some reason which makes an eerie amount of sense given thors the god of thunder and I really need to see fanart of this now.

[ladydouji]

I don't suppose anyone could post the more of this. My LCS was out of this when I got there and I did go double check the rules And the only ask individuals limit to 7 pages to allow more people to post.

[baihu]

Oh great, yet another not-angsting-but-cunning Loki gets ill-treated to the point he'll come back to go ANGST-HATE-BROTHER-ISSUES-GAH!

Oh wait this is cancelled.

BOooooooooooooooooooo!

[janegray]

I hate that we don't get Free Comic book day here ;_;

Though, since this is a free comic, wouldn't it be legal to scan and post it all?

[turtlefu]

All of the free comics were available (or still are) online through some website. I think it was comixology.

[misterbug]

Surely with a name like that, Arthur would presume that Cap is Spanish?

[lieut_kettch]

Or Italian, most probably. Amerigo Vespucci was Italian.

[blackruzsa]

I'm pretty much annoyed I missed FCBD. :I

[lieut_kettch]

And now... TO CAMELOT!

CAMELOT!

CAMELOT!

It's only a model.

SHHHHH!

[sindra]

...was waiting for that.

Thank you for not disappointing me. =D

[glprime]

"Ummm... Nobody touch that."

HA. Sage advice in the supernatural/meta business.

"Ten-four, sir. You heard 'em, boys. That there artifact's a G-13 hazard. Let's breakout the Magi Box and seal it up for transport to New Mexico."

[proteus_lives]

Where it will be examined by top men.

....Top Men.

[blunderbuss]

I demand that this artist does all Thor art from now until the end of time. <3 <3 <3

[proteus_lives]

Second.

[chocochuy]

Boy, this Comic Book sure has everything we want:

- Incredible and Amazing Storyline.
- Beautiful Art.
- Loki winking to the reader.
- Bro-mance between Cap and Thor.
- Cute moments with Jane and Thor.
- Loki winking to the reader.
- Tells a good story and it's not afraid to have fun with it (Reminds me of the early days of the Lee-Kirby Thor as well as the good stories of the Silver Age Superman).
- O Captain! Our Captain!
- Did I mentioned that Loki was winking to the reader?

I think we should do an online petition for more stories done by Chris Samnee. We could ask for him to do some stories for the Annual Issues of Thor and Captain America. Feedback would be appreciated.

I love this story.

[neuhallidae]

He's currently doing the backup in Captain America, isn't he? I am so torn. I want delicious Samnee art, but I've gotten kind of tired of Brubaker's flavor of angst. Anyone know if this new story's any good?

[recognitions]

Is the second to last panel on the second page a Ragnarok reference?