Please keep up these weekly series Tom. Love your knowledge and enthusiasm for the material. I would step over my own Mother to see your reviews of Simonson's THOR, but i guess I'll have to wait😢.also Witchman looks freakin' incredible!!! Can't wait to hold a physical copy😊
The Wrecker is another earthy and believable villain like the Absorbing Man, who gained his powers through Asgardian [inadvertent] intervention, even though he was already a costumed supervillain without supernatural powers, which I think makes him a more interesting and colourful character than the Absorbing Man, whose ascension was only due to Loki's interference. Also, like the best of Marvel's supervillains, he is evil but mad. I'm glad that Karnilla's later character development made her into something more complex than the evil counterpart of Loki. Her love for Balder showed a different side to her character, and she later annoys Loki by saving Thor and his companions when they face almost certain defeat on Earth by a robot created by a foreign power.
In Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes cartoon, they made the Absorbing Man and the Wrecking Crew products of Gamma Radiation. It didn't interfere with the narrative, so it didn't bother me too much.
I always felt like the Wrecker was a less-interesting version of the Absorbing Man, with a crowbar instead of a wrecking ball and the go-to origin of getting a shot of Asgard juice to make him able to stand on the same stage as Thor. Great name for a villain, though.
I always wanted a story where Thunderball and Absorbing Man accidentally grabbed the other's wrecking ball. They would be fighting Thor and Daredevil who accidentally grabbed each other's canes as Don Blake and Matt Murdock.
I always liked the Wrecker. At this point, Kirby was starting to hold back creations, but he couldn't quite help himself and some new villains would squeak through. I first read this as Marvel Spectacular #19 and that was the last issue of that reprint series, so I had to track down all original Thors after that. The reprint cut out the second page of Odin raging at the Asgardians and the delivery boy scene. Thor is at least paying his bills here, instead of those times when he got a free taxi ride and ice cream. I guess in Thor: Grand Design, he'll be using Door Dash and be messing with Don Blake's cell phone to pay on the app. I like the elfin Loki too when the Wrecker bursts in. In such a realistic setting without the hat, but with the rest of his costume, I can almost see that it may have been a little twinkle in Neil Gaiman's eye for American Gods for his interpretation of Loki. I do understand he drew upon Norse mythology and wrote a whole book about Norse mythology before the Internet jumps on me. Just a little twinkle. I like those urban battles too. I like how Odin banished Balder and Sif to Earth in the beginning and when they're back, he's just like "Hmm, oh, you're back."
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Please keep up these weekly series Tom. Love your knowledge and enthusiasm for the material. I would step over my own Mother to see your reviews of Simonson's THOR, but i guess I'll have to wait😢.also Witchman looks freakin' incredible!!! Can't wait to hold a physical copy😊
The Wrecker is another earthy and believable villain like the Absorbing Man, who gained his powers through Asgardian [inadvertent] intervention, even though he was already a costumed supervillain without supernatural powers, which I think makes him a more interesting and colourful character than the Absorbing Man, whose ascension was only due to Loki's interference. Also, like the best of Marvel's supervillains, he is evil but mad. I'm glad that Karnilla's later character development made her into something more complex than the evil counterpart of Loki. Her love for Balder showed a different side to her character, and she later annoys Loki by saving Thor and his companions when they face almost certain defeat on Earth by a robot created by a foreign power.
In Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes cartoon, they made the Absorbing Man and the Wrecking Crew products of Gamma Radiation. It didn't interfere with the narrative, so it didn't bother me too much.
I always felt like the Wrecker was a less-interesting version of the Absorbing Man, with a crowbar instead of a wrecking ball and the go-to origin of getting a shot of Asgard juice to make him able to stand on the same stage as Thor. Great name for a villain, though.
I always wanted a story where Thunderball and Absorbing Man accidentally grabbed the other's wrecking ball. They would be fighting Thor and Daredevil who accidentally grabbed each other's canes as Don Blake and Matt Murdock.
I always liked the Wrecker. At this point, Kirby was starting to hold back creations, but he couldn't quite help himself and some new villains would squeak through. I first read this as Marvel Spectacular #19 and that was the last issue of that reprint series, so I had to track down all original Thors after that. The reprint cut out the second page of Odin raging at the Asgardians and the delivery boy scene.
Thor is at least paying his bills here, instead of those times when he got a free taxi ride and ice cream. I guess in Thor: Grand Design, he'll be using Door Dash and be messing with Don Blake's cell phone to pay on the app. I like the elfin Loki too when the Wrecker bursts in. In such a realistic setting without the hat, but with the rest of his costume, I can almost see that it may have been a little twinkle in Neil Gaiman's eye for American Gods for his interpretation of Loki. I do understand he drew upon Norse mythology and wrote a whole book about Norse mythology before the Internet jumps on me. Just a little twinkle.
I like those urban battles too. I like how Odin banished Balder and Sif to Earth in the beginning and when they're back, he's just like "Hmm, oh, you're back."
I remember this comic.