rascal_father
02-06-2005, 09:22 AM
art is reminscene of Geoff Darrow(remember Big Guy and Rusty the boy robot)
check out interiors
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While fans are still waiting for news on the relaunch of Marvel’s Thor series, Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada revealed during his weekly Joe Fridays Q&A column that Mike Oeming and Scott Kolins’ Thor: Blood Oath limited series is debuting in September.
Blood Oath marks Oeming’s third Thor project after the regular (and now cancelled) Thor series in which he and artist Andrea DiVito chronicled the last days of the Mighty Thor and later on, the Stormbreaker: The Saga of Beta Ray Bill mini-series, also with DiVito.
Originally titled Thor: Tales of Asgard, the six-issue Blood Oath mini takes place in the early years of Thor before Ragnarok and therefore, has nothing to do with the much-hyped House of M summer blockbuster event, Oeming said.
“What's House of M? I think I've heard of it. Anyway, this has nothing to do with that, this next Thor project is a big old classic Thor story of Thunderhead [and] the Warriors Three in an Asgardian adventure that spans most of the Marvels Pantheon.
“The Warriors Three are three of Thor’s longtime friends and among the greatest warriors of Asgard,” he explained. “Hogun the Grimm carries a studded mace and rarely speaks. Think of him as the first Goth-punk. Fandral is a swordsman, a looker and a woman chaser. Volstagg, I think, is based slightly on Shakespeare’s favorite character, Falstaff, a huge lighthearted warrior.
“They are on a mission to recover several magical items to make up for the accidental killing of a giant - hence the title, Blood Oath. Back in the day, if you killed someone, you didn’t always get in real trouble for it, you had a pay a "weird" to pay something to the elder of the family as cost of their dead kin. They have to get a Magic Pig that makes wine, but it’s guarded by a partying and drunk Hercules, the spear of Cuchulan, an Irish hero, a Japanese sword guarded by the thousands of men it's killed, and some other crazy stuff that’s impossible to get.
“I’m having so much fun writing these guys. They have so much history together, so there’s lots of room for banter, teasing and love. We'll get to see some other classic Marvel guys, like Hercules and Absorbing Man, as well as a few new guys. I guess they are all retroactively dead though, so it’s kind of like dancing with their corpses.”
Oeming is collaborating with Scott Kolins, fresh from his run on Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, and he is extremely excited to be working with the artist. “Hell, yes! Scott is amazing. He just sent in his first pages and they blew me away. He read my mind, saw what I was thinking, and yet made it his own, totally. Between Andrea on Thor, Stormbreaker and Scott on Blood Oath, I must be the luckiest writer in the world.”
That said, the writer/artist has more stories to tell about the Mighty Thor “but I have to see what Marvel does with Thor next,” he said. “He's headed for a reboot. I left Thor’s destiny sort of open ended at the end of Thor, so they can either bring him back or restart in a completely new direction. Either way, I'd like to think they will start Thor fresh again, leave Asgard a memory that will be brought back in 10 years. Nothing or anyone ever stays dead forever, after all. In the meantime, we have this really fun story of classic Thor to hold us over.
”Hopefully, [I’ll be remembered] as someone who brought honor to the ending of this pivotal Marvel series. Hopefully, I honored both classic Thor and the mythology, as well as those who laid the foundation for it, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Simonson, Thomas, Buscema and others.”
credit to Benjamin Ong Pang Kean
check out interiors
http://www.newsarama.com/marvelnew/Thor_bloodoath/THORBO1_02.jpg
http://www.newsarama.com/marvelnew/Thor_bloodoath/THORB01_11.jpg
While fans are still waiting for news on the relaunch of Marvel’s Thor series, Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada revealed during his weekly Joe Fridays Q&A column that Mike Oeming and Scott Kolins’ Thor: Blood Oath limited series is debuting in September.
Blood Oath marks Oeming’s third Thor project after the regular (and now cancelled) Thor series in which he and artist Andrea DiVito chronicled the last days of the Mighty Thor and later on, the Stormbreaker: The Saga of Beta Ray Bill mini-series, also with DiVito.
Originally titled Thor: Tales of Asgard, the six-issue Blood Oath mini takes place in the early years of Thor before Ragnarok and therefore, has nothing to do with the much-hyped House of M summer blockbuster event, Oeming said.
“What's House of M? I think I've heard of it. Anyway, this has nothing to do with that, this next Thor project is a big old classic Thor story of Thunderhead [and] the Warriors Three in an Asgardian adventure that spans most of the Marvels Pantheon.
“The Warriors Three are three of Thor’s longtime friends and among the greatest warriors of Asgard,” he explained. “Hogun the Grimm carries a studded mace and rarely speaks. Think of him as the first Goth-punk. Fandral is a swordsman, a looker and a woman chaser. Volstagg, I think, is based slightly on Shakespeare’s favorite character, Falstaff, a huge lighthearted warrior.
“They are on a mission to recover several magical items to make up for the accidental killing of a giant - hence the title, Blood Oath. Back in the day, if you killed someone, you didn’t always get in real trouble for it, you had a pay a "weird" to pay something to the elder of the family as cost of their dead kin. They have to get a Magic Pig that makes wine, but it’s guarded by a partying and drunk Hercules, the spear of Cuchulan, an Irish hero, a Japanese sword guarded by the thousands of men it's killed, and some other crazy stuff that’s impossible to get.
“I’m having so much fun writing these guys. They have so much history together, so there’s lots of room for banter, teasing and love. We'll get to see some other classic Marvel guys, like Hercules and Absorbing Man, as well as a few new guys. I guess they are all retroactively dead though, so it’s kind of like dancing with their corpses.”
Oeming is collaborating with Scott Kolins, fresh from his run on Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, and he is extremely excited to be working with the artist. “Hell, yes! Scott is amazing. He just sent in his first pages and they blew me away. He read my mind, saw what I was thinking, and yet made it his own, totally. Between Andrea on Thor, Stormbreaker and Scott on Blood Oath, I must be the luckiest writer in the world.”
That said, the writer/artist has more stories to tell about the Mighty Thor “but I have to see what Marvel does with Thor next,” he said. “He's headed for a reboot. I left Thor’s destiny sort of open ended at the end of Thor, so they can either bring him back or restart in a completely new direction. Either way, I'd like to think they will start Thor fresh again, leave Asgard a memory that will be brought back in 10 years. Nothing or anyone ever stays dead forever, after all. In the meantime, we have this really fun story of classic Thor to hold us over.
”Hopefully, [I’ll be remembered] as someone who brought honor to the ending of this pivotal Marvel series. Hopefully, I honored both classic Thor and the mythology, as well as those who laid the foundation for it, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Simonson, Thomas, Buscema and others.”
credit to Benjamin Ong Pang Kean