Should I have bought...............

[Hush]

Thor: Bloodoath Or New Avengers: Sentry?

I bought the latter. Im now thinking it was a mistake. I wanted to know about Sentry but i really want to get into Thor. I was unsure of how to get into Thor, any thoughts? Im also lookin for good NON-ULTIMATE spidey stories. I know of 1-6 on JMS's run, but any other good stuff? Im lookin for the serious spidey that has humorus undertones. I just want good Modern stories that have Spidey and Thor. ( Well up untill Thor died) Thank you.

BY the way Sentry was kinda a waste.IMO

 

[Elijya]

Thor Blood Oath was excellent. You'd also enjoy Thor: Disassembled, and Thor: Vikings if you can track it down

as for Spidey, definitely get Spider-Man:Blue. I've just read Doctor Octopus: Year One, and while Spidey's only in it a little, it's an amazingly excellent look into Doc Ock's mind and history

There was a series a few years back called Spider Man's Tangled Web. Each issue was a vignette, a single issue story that focused on the lives of people spider-man had touched (J. Jonah Jameson, various villains, the daughter of a criminal he caught, one of Kingpin's henchmen, the wrestler he fought in his first appearence). The qwuality went back and forth since each story was by a different creative team. Some of them were not that good, but every other one was EXCELLENT, and if you can get them for cheap, you should

 

[Darthphere]

I have a rule of thumb, if its Sentry, not being written by Paul Jenkins, not worth it.

 

[Harlekin]

Definitely should've gone for Blood Oath. It was excellent.

 

[Elijya]

I wouldn't necessarily say excellent, but it was very good, yes, thoroughly entertaining

 

[Sebastos]

Thor Blood Oath was great, so I say yes. I wasn't to crazy about Sentry though...

 

[Hush]

Thanks all!!! I appreciate it! Im really regretting buying Sentry I mean it was just so underwhelming.

 

[Joker]

get Thor: Vikings...Ennis+Thor=SEX

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Thor: Blood Oath was a great, modern take on classic Thor. The Sentry arc of New Avengers sucked. I'd say you should've gone for Blood Oath.

If you're looking to get into Thor, you can't go wrong with the Simonson run. I believe it's collected in three TPBs under the title Thor Visionaries: Walter Simonson. Or, if you just want to catch up on where Thor went for the last two years, you could just get Avengers Disassembled: Thor (which I still think should've been published under the title Thor: Ragnarok, since it had nothing to do with Disassembled whatsoever, but that's another matter). The entire King Thor saga from Dan Jurgens' run, which ended just before Thor Disassembled began, is also excellent.

 

[Joker]

Ragnarok had to do with Dissasembled in that it explained why Thor wasnt around for the main event.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Exactly, it had the finest of hairs connecting it, if even that. "Ragnarok" could've taken place at any time--during Disassembled, a year before it, a year after it--and it wouldn't have made any difference. They were completely separate stories outside of the fact that they happened to occur simultaneously and thus Thor couldn't participate in Disassembled itself.

 

[Hush]

Thank you Corp & Joker I have been looking for Thor stuff for awhile now I know what to get. It makes looking easier.

 

[Elijya]

get Thor: Vikings...Ennis+Thor=SEX

There's no sex in it

 

[iloveclones]

I loved Thor:Blood Oath. The Hercules fight was great! If they could make a Thor series in that vein, I'd definately buy it.

NA:Sentry was allright. I liked it and the second mini, but I wouldn't put either of them on any top 10 lists.

 

[yahman]

The entire King Thor saga from Dan Jurgens' run, which ended just before Thor Disassembled began, is also excellent.

Hardly excellent ! It did had its high points, such as the Desak incident, and the fight with 'Thorbuster' Iron man, but alot of it was extremely pedestrian. Jurgens writing can be really tedious sometimes, and you can find yourself reading entire Issues with nothing really happening. The Ragarnock arc was an improvement, although i thought the ending slightly let it down.

 

[Elijya]

the Ragnarock arc was by Oeming, not Jurgens

 

[Red]

Outside of his first mini I never found Sentry to be anything other than a Thor stand in, especially under Bendis's pen.

 

[yahman]

the Ragnarock arc was by Oeming, not Jurgens

I never said it was .....