It’s our first year anniversary! To celebrate, we have a very special guest, David Carron of The Troth, and we talk about Asatru and what it means to worship Thor and the other Norse gods! Plus an installment of ”Just For Valhall-of-it”!
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In this episode, we return to our normal programming as we cover a couple of fine classic issues. We start out with Power Pack #15, co-starring The Warriors Three! Then we look at Thor #140, featuring the growing threat (pun intended) of The Growing Manhood….er…Growing Man! Plus Kang the Conqueror makes an ineffectual appearance! Tree [...]
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It’s episode 50! We have an EPIC character profile of Thor himself, and then Scott and I cover the EPIC (well, ok, “epic”) Thor graphic novel “I, Whom The Gods Would Destroy” circa 1987, in which Don Blake has a one-night stand, Sif models some lingerie, and we wonder just what was Marvel thinking…
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In our run-up to episode 50, The trolls invade Asgard in Thor #139! We have a major continuity error! Thor attempts suicide! There’s a shrinking hammer (and it’s not even cold outside), a communist troll, and in Tales of Asgard, we learn that Thor don’t know much about geology. I can haz No-prize? Then in [...]
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It’s an All-Sex special! Not only do we have some soap-opera-iffic action wrapping up the Lorelei storyline in Thor #359 (including the return of her big pink stork), but in Thor #138, the most erotic issue yet, Thor’s “hammer” is swallowed up by a giant purple “clam”, and in Tales of Asgard, our heroes fight [...]
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In this episode, we cover two great issues as we go back to 1967 for Thor #137, featuring the first appearance of Ulik! Ulik, the mightiest rock troll of all! Ulik! Whose strength rivals that of Thor himself! Ulik! (not to be confused with any one else by the name of Ulik!) Ulik! Whose name [...]
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This week our good buddy Scott Coles joins me from Canada, and we discuss Thor #356, which features a fill-in featuring (who else?) Hercules, entertaining some hideously deformed children, plus Walt Simonson (apparently) defaces a tree! Then in Thor #357, we’re back to Simonson-y goodness as Thor returns to Asgard, there’s a snowball fight, and Odin’s [...]
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In this episode we cover the Norse myth, “The Building of Asgard’s Wall” – Then, we wrap up our coverage of Thor: Vikings with issue #5, in which pretty much everyone dies!! We see the Statue of Liberty’s cleavage, and Doctor Strange co-stars… sorta. Musical excerpts from “Eddan: the Invincible Sword of the Elf Smith” [...]
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The story really gets moving in Thor: Vikings #4, and then the Warriors Three shop for kitchenware at Macy’s, and Thor meets an Asgardian Pokemon trainer in The Mighty Thor #355! We present a mini-profile of Sal Buscema, and we read out a couple of emails and talk more about Rom: Spaceknight!
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Between hacking up evil green stuff, we go off on a tangent as we have a look at ROM #65 (now with 95% less Thor!) where the Earth’s greatest heroes gleefully participate in a horrible genocide! Plus, the story really starts to get moving in Thor: Vikings #3, co-starring Doctor Strange!
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In this episode, we cover lots more zombie violence in Thor: Vikings #2, which has a very strange ending… Then in Thor #354, it’s Thor vs. Hela, as everyone tries to figure out what to do, now that Odin has gone down the hole… plus Thor plays drama queen again and runs away from home! [...]
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In this episode, we wrap up our coverage of Walt Simonson’s epic Surtur storyline with Thor #353, and for those lovers of zombie vikings, and gratuitious, beautifully rendered violence and gore, we also cover the first issue of Thor: Vikings from 2003!! Plus, we remember the late, great John Severin.
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In this episode, we start out with a closer look at Odin’s best wife, Frigga, in both mythology and comics, and then continue on with the sensational Simonson Surtur Saga as we go through The Mighty Thor issues #351 and #352! There’s lotsa demons, lotsa fire, lotsa ice and… Comet, the Super-Horse??!!
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This time around, we have a look at Thor #349 and #350 – with the defeat of Malekith, Thor and the rest of the gods face a much larger problem… literally.. as Surtur invades New York City! I also have some email to read out, we see a goddess with mood-ring hair, meet one of [...]
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Greetings to all CPN members and listeners! Jumping right in with both feet, In this episode, we look at the next two issues in our on-going Walt Simonson reviews with Thor #347 and 348, which feature the menace of the mysterious Malekith! And behind the Stargate, Surtur is waiting… faeries and elves and broken glass in [...]
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