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Thunderstrike, Eric Masterson & Kevin Masterson – Definitive Collecting Guide & Reading Order

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New For Patrons: Guide to Thunderstrike, Eric Masterson

July 1, 2022 by krisis Leave a Comment

Today I have a guide to yet another hammer-wielder guide for Patrons of Crushing Krisis to support my Guide to Thor, The Odinson as part of my countdown to Thor: Love & Thunder. Long before Jane Foster was the Mighty Thor, another civilian on Midgard was able to lift Mjölnir to don the mantle of Thor, though it started him on an ultimately tragic path…

Guide to Thunderstrike – Eric Masterson & Kevin Masterson

Reading every Eric Masterson comic for this Thunderstrike Guide reminded me of why I love the Marvel Universe.

(Below I will vaguely spoil a 25-year-old comic I almost certain you have not read. You’ve been warned.)

Eric began in Thor (1966) #391 as the most minor of supporting characters – an architect at a job site where Thor maintained a human cover identity. Over the course of five years, Eric went from supporting character, to ally to Thor, to intrinsically linked to Thor, to becoming Thor himself! All the while, creators Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz developed a rich personal life for Eric – including a loving relationship with his son Kevin, complex friendships with a handful of colleagues, and an unlikely roommate in Hercules. [Read more…] about New For Patrons: Guide to Thunderstrike, Eric Masterson

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Asgard, Eric Masterson, Marvel Comics, New Comic Book Guide, Ron Frenz, Thor, Thunderstrike, Tim DeFalco

10 Marvel runs from the 80s that ought to be omnibuses – 1981 to 1989

May 4, 2017 by krisis

It’s the penultimate stop in our trip backwards through time to find all of the Marvel runs most in need of Omnibus treatment.

Why? For fun. For accumulating rainy-day reading. And, to fuel our 2017 Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus Secret Ballot votes!

Marvel in the 1980s is really a tale of two different Marvels. The first half of the decade featured many continuing 70s series, a handful of limited series, and relatively few new ongoing titles – most of which were direct spinoffs of characters from other books.

However, after Secret Wars II in 1986 the line got a serious shake-up, with many titles outside of what I think of as “The Big 9” and their satellite books getting cancelled or rebooted, plus tons of new ongoing and limited series and a whole new line of comics with New Universe!

(“The Big 9” are all of the lines of books that made it from the Silver Age to 2005 while being published continuously, even if that meant being restarted along the way – , Avengers, Captain America, Daredevil, Iron Man, Fantastic Four, Hulk, Spider-Man, Thor, and X-Men. After 2005, Thor went on hiatus, and Fantastic Four has been on hiatus since 2015.)

(In a totally weird turn of events, we can now probably add Deadpool to that list of evergreen lines.)

Marvel released a lot of comics in the 1980s, so what should Marvel prioritize getting into omnibuses? I’ve already covered all of the X-Men runs from this period, and I’m not touching Spider-Man or Fantastic Four mapping at the moment. Plus, many key 80s runs are on the survey already, like Peter David’s Hulk, Iron Man by by Michelinie & Layton Ann Nocenti’s Daredevil – but that still leaves a ton of potential runs to cover! [Read more…] about 10 Marvel runs from the 80s that ought to be omnibuses – 1981 to 1989

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Captain America, Captain Marvel, Chuck Dixon, Cloak and Dagger, Collected Edition Mapping, Doug Moench, Hawkeye, Iron Fist, Jim Starlin, Luke Cage, Mark Gruenwald, Marshall Rogers, Moon Knight, Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus, New Defenders, Nick Fury, Power Man, Ron Frenz, Ron Lim, Silver Surfer, Steve Englehart, Terry Kavanagh, The Thing, Thor, Tom DeFalco

Thor – The Definitive Collecting Guide and Reading Order

The definitive, chronological, and up-to-date guide and trade reading order for Thor comic books via omnibuses and trade paperback graphic novels. A part of Crushing Krisis’s Collecting Avengers Graphic Novels: A Definitive Guide. Last updated November 2018 with titles scheduled for release through July 2019.

Thor - 2008 - 0008 promoThere are hundreds of different collections of Thor, especially his original run from 1962 to 1996. However, there are a few specific formats of books that cover large portions of this title, and I’ll cover those first – Essentials, Epics, Masterworks, and Omnibuses. [Read more…] about Thor – The Definitive Collecting Guide and Reading Order

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