Jun 17
Click for full imageArt Direction: Lets break away from the common Thor look stereotype. And by break away, I mean just don’t give him a cape. Keep the male skirt, shaved legs, long blonde hair and bunny ears helmet!
Published 1987
(Average: 7.54 out of 10)
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June 17th, 2011 at 9:38 am
Now…If I can…just hit it…here…TING!…There, that should do it!
Be fair, art director: he’s not trying to be Thor, he’s surely Mercury/Hermes the Winged Messenger (http://tinyurl.com/wingedmess ). Although quite why he’s carrying a celestial mallet is beyond me.
June 17th, 2011 at 9:55 am
I’ve never seen anyone so elated to be wearing a powder blue dress.
June 17th, 2011 at 9:58 am
At last, Fabio gets his own SF novel!
June 17th, 2011 at 9:59 am
Giant space dreadnought vs. one guy with a mallet…
Whaddya mean “unfairly matched”??
June 17th, 2011 at 1:22 pm
Hellloooo, Thor! Do those legs go all the way up??
He looks more like he’s delivering the hammer than attacking the ship with it. (in high dweeby voice) “Hey guys! You forgot your hammer!”
June 17th, 2011 at 2:36 pm
The Ting! on this is very impressive. Nearly as impressive as Thor’s glow. Maybe he’s pregnant.
The story synopsis is about people bringing to life great mythical warriors to have a great battle for some sort of twisted pleasure. In my opinion the art missed out. Thor could have been battling against Merlin… and Hercules… and Sindbad all at the same time.
Maybe next time.
June 17th, 2011 at 5:49 pm
Once again the pretty boy gets the cover while Volstagg the Voluminous is nowhere to be seen.
June 17th, 2011 at 6:12 pm
@Tom Noir–good one. You made me snort coffee up my nose.
Pastel hammers–a new way to say “I love you” from your FTD florist.
June 17th, 2011 at 8:03 pm
Incidentally, the blurb “Welcome to the ultimate war game” was recycled from about FIVE THOUSAND Baen books.
June 20th, 2011 at 4:03 pm
How much you wanna bet that the climactic battle at the end of the book was LONGER AND BETTER than Thor’s?
August 20th, 2011 at 12:24 am
Thor attacking a giant space dreadnought with a hammer is actually exactly what happens in the book. Well, I think the hammer has a nuclear bomb in it, but the point stands: this accurately illustrates a scene from the story. And it’s a good book, honest!
October 12th, 2011 at 1:23 am
According to the author, “That’s a girl!”. Yes, really. I mentioned this site to him and he went all misty-eyed ^_^!
May 31st, 2013 at 9:04 pm
@Phil: what you don’t see is that, in proper video game fashion, the goliath warship has a bright red weak spot. Hit it 25 times with the hammer, the warship starts flashing red too, and the cover speeds up faster. Hit the weak spot 25 times more, and the warship explodes with enough force to lift Thor’s hemline. 🙂
June 2nd, 2013 at 10:45 pm
“Once you see it”