Thor #6

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[silverhammerman]

Is Galactus dead for now? That's a shame, I love Galactus, but then these things are cyclical.

I can't decide whether Thor being unnerved by a vision of ultimate doom which looks like any other Marvel event is unimaginative or quietly brilliant. Yeah it looks like just stacking Marvel Universe items on top of each other for Thanos to use, with the addition of zombies, but what could be more unnerving than seeing that the apocalypse looks like any other day?

Mostly I'm just surprised Thor's vision of the end didn't prominently feature Knull.

[beyondthefringe]

We all know Galactus will get better.

[cainofdreaming]

Zombie Man-Thing? Sooo... Marvel Zombies virus works on swamp muck now?

And of course Thanos will be there at the end. No one should be shocked at that 'revelation.'

[iamrman]

Welp, somebody had getter call Squirrel Girl.

[onsokumaru]

Oh great.
Now it's both Starlin and Cates.
My only hope is that Thanos and Knull kill eachother in the next event.

[deh_tommy]

INFINITY MJOLNIR

[zachbeacon]

Is there a particular reason Thor isn't telling Norrin about the vision? Seems to me that the Silver Surfer is one of the few beings who might be equipped to stop it.

[tcampbell1000]

He's doing that thing that depressed people do where they try to spare others the burden of their problems and/or try to keep their private issues private. He certainly seems to think that the end he was shown is real and inevitable.

Why Norrin is apparently letting it drop here is the real mystery, though, since his cosmic senses can detect a moth's wingbeats in the Asgardian forest fifty miles away and Thor is not exactly Loki when it comes to fibbing believably.

[zachbeacon]

Okay, fair enough. I guess I'm still not used to depressed Thor (except in the MCU where they make it a punch line).

Norrin is often not great with people so I could see him not knowing how to handle the situation. Heck, considering the time he trusted Doctor Doom and his running buddies on Earth include half the Illuminati, maybe he's just bad at noticing red flags.

[arilou_skiff]

A) Galactus hat as a house is amazing.
B) Thor's eyes are some serious "What has been seen cannot be unseen" cat energy.

[tcampbell1000]

Agreed on both points.

[donnblake]

Heh. Infinity Mallet.

[scorntx]

No wonder Thor's depressed.
Seeing any future where the Sentry's still around would send anyone into a funk.
(It's like that dry rot you just can't get rid of.)

... and a zombie Cosmic Ghost Rider. How does... no, never mind. That way madness lies.

[deh_tommy]

Well, I’m pretty sure Ghost Riders are still alive, so they would be able to turn into zombies. Plus, Cosmic Ghost Rider was Thanos’ right hand man back in his introduction.

[cainofdreaming]

Castle actually died and went to hell before becoming GR, so even ignoring the fact that they're literally walking skeletons, well, in his particular case there's that.

[tcampbell1000]

YMMV, but I would have been infinitely (heh) more engaged by this scene if Thor's vision had been hidden from us, or some portentous flash we didn't understand, or some new bad guy, or some really SURPRISING bad guy (the Wrecker, Captain Hook, Evil Squirrel Girl), or even the Midgard Serpent, or basically anything, really, that wasn't just a greatest-hits CD of Marvelpocalypses we've already dealt with and yet keep coming back to.

"It... it was SO LAME, Norrin... I was kneeling in a field, surrounded by COMPLETE CREATIVE BANKRUPTCY... I didn't even CARE when Mj6n∞r cleaved my skull in twain... and I looked for a writer credit... and I saw... BLACKNESS... and nothing more."

[silverhammerman]

I'd love to be able to give credit Cates for building up villains by returning to them, but yeah, Thanos is utterly old hat. Even that specific vision of the future looks like a minor variation on stuff we've already seen.

Looking at Cates' bibliography, his Doctor Strange and Death of the Inhumans are the only solo writing projects he's done at Marvel that, to my knowledge, doesn't touch on either Thanos or Knull. As a rough calculation, Cates has written around 73 Marvel issues, the two books mentioned about account for 14 books issues. 80% of his output has involved Knull or Thanos in some way. The man needs a writing intervention.

[scorntx]

The fact that his non-Thanos or Knull stuff includes Death of the Inhumans is pretty worrying in itself, frankly.