I’ve been reading Thor the complete collection by Jason Aaron, which is a more recent Marvel Thor series.
I finished volume 1 recently, And I can’t get over the artwork on the ‘’god butcher’’ story- It makes it seem as if every panel is a painting...
Like, thats art goals. Everything has such subtle light details, and very detailed expressiveness. I’m aware that this comic maybe had a different penciler and colorist, but the combination is amazeballs. You can’t tell that this might’ve been produced in collab- Its so stylized?
(Either way I might be wrong, maybe one person did these pages.)
Some of my favorite parts of this comic, due the art:
For storytelling, this conveys so much. The light, the paneling, it’s epic.
And the villain of this storytelling, his design, and the way he is depicted makes him look menacing and intimidating.
‘‘Gorr the God Butcher’‘ A character that really evokes a feeling that he likes to kill, torture. Kinda funny they didn’t just name him ‘‘Gore’‘ Because honestly, that’s this villain’s stick. He hates ‘‘godflesh’‘ and ‘‘godlings’‘ and the drama of this story is that Thor through his immortal years finds signs of Gorr’s slaughter, because gods rot very slowly after they die. One really cool lore part was that Thor mentions that the corpses he found could’ve been hundreds of years old, and you wouldn’t be able to tell because they look like they’ve been killed recently.
The way Gorr’s drawn during his action and fights with younger Thor really makes you feel like you know how he would be animated:
This guy only has 1 favorite expression, lol. Teeth out, all menacing.
Throughout the Complete Collection vol, for the Gorr storyline, the main parts of the story are mostly drawn by this artist, or someone similar. Gorr’s backstory near the end is drawn in a completely different art style- while some people may find that jarring, I’ve gotten used to the way marvel does things with different artists drawing their stories.
The backstory of Gorr is actually quite sad, and it makes sense why he ends up as the god butcher, the artist for that chapter had a very gritty and ‘’rough’’ style, and conveys the feeling its supposed to make you have. It feels dry as the desert, as if the character would wander into endless misery. Very fitting!
After the God bomb story (Which finalizes the God butcher arc for this Thor volume) You get the story with Malekith, which seems to be longer because it turns into the ‘’war of realms’’ event. Marvel does this thing were several comics have crossover stories, war of realms basically appears in several different series, not just Thor’s. I’ve arrived at the arc with Roxxon and Lady Thor’s first appearance.
As for the God Bomb story.. I still thing it was a very flawless read. It had three timelines of Thors interacting in which the story took place, and the last fight was very epic.
I def recommend the series by Jason Aaron, he seems to be really good at his writing, because it was hard to put it away.
