#balder the brave

[vertigoartgore]

1985's Balder the Brave Vol.1 #1 cover by Walt Simonson. Source

[merrymarvelite]

Cover of the Day: Thor #274 (August, 1978) Art by John Buscema and Tom Palmer

[katebishopeveryday]

War of the Realms: Journey Into Mystery (2019) #3 The McElroys & André Lima Araújo

[kittkattys]

one of my favorite Odin family moments..

This takes place when Asgard is gone and they all live on Earth, Balder and Loki get arrested and Thor has to go bail them out. I love it because Loki is just chilling and Balder looks so stressed out

THOR IS NOT HAPPY WITH YOU BALDER.

WHY DOES HE LOOK LIKE THIS

[coolcomicbookcovers]

[lobeliamaximoff]

The Siege Fancast

Karl Urban as Ares

Luke Grimes as Balder The Brave

Tom Glynn-Carney as Sentry

[farsight-the-char]

The current tally for the Odins Children (the active ones at least).

The Immortal Thor chapter 11, out next week.

Angela is a welcome sight, and it is nice to see Laussa again.

Beta Ray Bill presumably keeping watch on the Realms with Sif.

[comicwaren]

From Immortal Thor #011, “God of Doom”

Art by Valentina Pinti and Espen Grundetjern

Written by Al Ewing

[sourpatchgrapes]

Holy fuck, holy shit hhhhh

We're gonna get all Thor's siblings working together on something AND I MEAN ALL OF THEM I'M GONNA GRY

Bro I love al Ewing, he can do no wrong for me

I wonder who's this person they feared 👀

[balu8]

Sal Buscema and Walter Simonson

Balder the Brave #4

Marvel

Source: Juan Luis Iglesias (comicartfans)

Buscema+Simonson: Balder The Brave #4, pages 30-31, in Juan Luis Iglesias's Sal Buscema & Walt Simonson - Balder The Brave Comic Art Gallery Room (comicartfans.com)

[towritecomicsonherarms]

War of the Realms: Journey Into Mystery #5

[wanderingmind867]

I think Marvel's Thor comics and the Magnus Chase books can actually oexist in the same universe. At the least the ones pre Walt Simonson can. Because I looked into this last night. Roy Thomas really did a good job of working in all the key norse stories. He gave the marvel universe a red haired, mythically accurate looking thor (who did die, to be fair). He explored Ragnarok, giving us Fenris Wolf, Jormungand and the near total end of all things. And beyond Roy Thomas's stuff, most other 60s, 70s and early 80s writers weren't delving too deep into the Norse cosmology. They tended to focus on the basic asgardians, while also shifting their gaze to the other pantheons.

So if we ignore Walt Simonson's Thor comics (which I always plan to do, anyways), we get an easy opportunity to make the Nine Worlds of Marvel and the Nine Worlds of the Magnus Chase series match up. Because most characters used by Rick Riordan don't show up in pre-walt simonson thor comics. The only ones that do show up in big roles in both the comics and books are Hela, Loki, Odin, Thor, Sif and (maybe) Tyr. Thor's goats? Ignored. Frey and Freya? Mostly ignored. Utgard-Loki? Also Ignored. Surt/Surtr? Shows up maybe 5 times, max. There aren't a lot of characters that get damaged by placing Magnus Chase and Marvel's Thor in the same universe.

In fact, I'd say it's beneficial in some ways. Because 60s, 70s and early 80s Thor comics show us Asgard and Jotunheim and Helheim, but most of the other six worlds are missed. Alfheim? Vanaheim? Nidavellir? All these places are glossed over by old Thor comics. But the Magnus Chase books show them off pretty extensively. So the two honestly serve to neatly complement each other, in my opinion. If you take both, you can get a better view of the norse realms.

Oh, and the only major difference between the two versions of events that I can detect? It's Balder. Balder the Brave is alive in marvel's world (although he has nearly died before), whereas he's definitely dead/trapped in Helheim in the Magnus Chase books. But beyond that, I don't really see any major differences. At least not any that we can't paper over and fix up with retcons.

[katebishopeveryday]

War of the Realms: Journey Into Mystery (2019) #3 The McElroys & André Lima Araújo

[kittkattys]

Okay I must know.... Balder the brave, Thor and Loki's very forgotten brother from the comics is one of my favorite minor characters. I love how much he's just trying to get his dang family to act normal. Do you know about him?

Balder is so lovely, I can't hate him (even though I always read abt him from Loki's completely unbiased pov), but it's so funny to see that he's just a nice guy who Loki ALWAYS tries to kill - literally the "when someone is so kind that they actually disgust you" dynamic 😭

[heckcareoxytwit]

A preview of Immortal Thor #11

IMMORTAL THOR #11

FOLLOWING UP ON THE G.O.D.S. PAGE FROM IMMORTAL THOR #1!

Tyr had vanished, and there were whispers of cosmic forces at work. And so, the children of Odin gathered in their father’s name — to search for one of their own. Regal Thor, fierce Angela, brave Balder, swift Hermod, quiet Honir, strong Vidar, cunning Loki, even Laussa the youngest, all were there… and another beside. Another, whose name they feared. This is the story of THE IMMORTAL THOR… and the lost son of Odin.

Immortal Thor #11 LEGACY #772

Written by: Al Ewing Art by: Valentina Pinti Cover by: Alex Ross Page Count: 28 Pages Release Date: May 22, 2024

[merrymarvelite]

Cover of the Day: Thor #260 (June, 1977) Art by Walt Simonson and Joe Sinnott