Wednesday is Comic Day!

Writers: J.M. Straczynski, Stan Lee, Chris Giarrusso Artists: Olivier Coipel, Marko Djurdjevic, David Aja, Chris Giarrusso, Jack Kirby

Through a bit of creative counting, Marvel Comics has added all the different Thor comic series together and decided that this is the 600th issue. 600 issues is definitely an accomplishment and Marvel celebrates it with this giant comic. The first part is a double length (44 page) story that continues the storyline in the current Thor series. The story involves more trickery from Loki and an amazing downtown New York battle between Thor and another Asgardian. The results dramatically change the status quo of the book. Olivier Coipel's art just keeps getting better. His Thor is so new and fresh and yet looks like one would imagine Thor should always have looked. And the fight scenes! Wow - lightening everywhere, swirling winds whipping up cars... Very nice. The other Asgardian has a different perspective on what's happening and those scenes are very nicely done by Marko Djurdjevic.

Following the main story is a new Thor story written by Stan Lee and drawn by David Aja. Not a particularly stellar story, but it is still nice to read new Stan Lee work. That is followed by one of Chris Giarrusso's Mini-Marvels stories. A cute kid style retelling of Thor's return. The book concludes with several Stan Lee/Jack Kirby reprint stories from old issues of Journeys into Mystery. Some of which are about Balder (whom seems to be coming to prominence in Thor.

This is a monster sized comic for $4.99. A great deal - you really should pick it up!