Vikings


Press release from Marvel:

Marvel is proud to announce that Thor #4 has sold out at Diamond (though copies may be available at the retail level). This is the Odinson’s fourth consecutive sell-out since JMS and Oliver Coipel re-launched the series in July. Due to the overwhelming demand for the issue, Marvel is going back to press with Thor #4 Second Printing Variant, featuring Oliver Coipel’s interior page of Volstagg, Fandral and Hogun — The Warrior’s Three — as the cover!

“Thor #4 uses Thor’s human half to tackle a real world crisis as only comic books are capable… it succeeds quite well in blending fictional gods with very real conflicts,” says Jesse Schedeen of IGN.com

Marvel urges retailers to check their orders on Thor #4 Second Printing Variant and all future issues of the series, as the first four issues have sold-out.

Also, be sure not to miss Thor #5! With Heimdall’s help, Thor quickens his pace, and continues to search far and wide for his Asgardian brethren. But will he be prepared for who he finds next! Where there is Thor, there must also be… Sif!?

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“Thor,” written by J. Michael Straczynski, features the Norse god of thunder. He returned from the dead and settled in Oklahoma in “Thor” No. 1 in July. Since then, every issue of the now-local hero’s comic has sold out nationwide!

– Matt Price

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Brian Wood’s Viking epic “Northlanders” is praised by Entertainment Weekly:

Chalk up another creative victory for writer Wood (DMZ), who’s quickly emerging as one the medium’s premier scribes. Like his best work, Northlanders takes you into a well-researched, richly realized world that illuminates politics and culture without getting bogged down in history-book stuff.

Greg and I talked about how much we liked this book in a recent podcast, so I’m glad to see Entertainment Weekly coat-tailing on us again. (Just kidding, I love you Entertainment Weekly.)

Greg says: “It’s a real interesting story, it’s got some ‘Hamlet’ overtones to it. … Since ‘DMZ’ and Brian Wood’s other works, the things he did at AiT-Planet Lar, I’m on board with anything he does.”

– Matt Price