Meanwhile, in the background, someone's making a sword that's going to smite everything, the act of creation alone sending shockwaves through the universe. It goes well but soon Thor finds himself free of the Donald Blake identity, for better or worse. Soon after, Bill and Thor go on a mission to save Bill's race from demons. In the first issue, Thor gets his hammer taken from him by the bionic alien Beta Ray Bill. The word epic is overused/misused a lot these days but Simonson gave Thor an epic feel immediately. It was during this period that he was tapped to write and draw Thor and he wasted no time shaking things up. There was a short period during the 1980s that Walter Simonson could do no wrong. That's not true, I managed to resist reading it for a couple years. I stumbled upon this at the 2016 Planet City Comicon in Kansas City and couldn't resist. Thor has never been my favorite Marvel character but I've read a couple dozen issues of his comic, mostly from the Ron Frenz-Tom DeFalco run, and a handful of Walter Simonson issues. Who is the monster called Beta Ray Bill and why has he come to earth? What is the mysterious dragon rising from the waters of the Atlantic? And who is forging a sword in the heart of an alien sun? That's up to Thor to find out.
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