"To further clarify, I'll also be taking much more time between updates to facilitate discussion. I'd just as soon not end up talking to myself. "

"Thinking about it, Surtur's forces may have needed to gather somewhere hot, so a desert makes some sense, plus magic so I guess the Sahara makes sense if you squint at it sideways through an eclipse filter. "

""Everything that’s been building the last 12 or so issues comes to fruition..." Yes, but it's not the end of the arc; it's the beginning of the end. "...we even get to see two of my personal nitpicks utilized (namely…"

"Well, it is Marvel, so the entire world revolves around New York city. "

"Another great issue! Towards the end of the story there is a panel depicting the Rainbow Bridge connected to New York. Maybe this has been shown before but I don't recall seeing it. I always thought of the Bridge as a device like the Boom Tube…"

"Thor #350 Ragnarok and Roll! Writer: Walt Simonson Penciller: Walt Simonson Beta Ray Bill and Sif are summoned to the meeting. While they all get acquainted, Odin goes to gather the warriors of Valhalla. He asks them to meet the assembled forces…"

"Frank Miller used Thor's rain-making abilities to good order in the Daredevil: Born Again story. After Mike's attack on Hell's Kitchen Thor used rain to put out fires and (IIRC) get the crowd to disperse. "

"I believe that it was Stan Lee who established that Thor can create rains by hitting the ground with the pommel of Mjolnir's handle twice in rapid succession, and stop them by doing the same thing four times instead of two.Later writers seem to…"

"Black Panther #9 Enemy Of The State Published: July 1999 Writer: Christopher Priest Penciller: Mike Manley Ross has been reassigned to a very cold place. In a bit of comedy, we see him struggling with using an outhouse and later attempting to open…"

"For what it's worth, due to circumstances I'm no longer working and essentially retired. I would have the time and bandwidth for two concurrent projects."

"Speaking of cop shows, I haven't been able to watch one since May 25. I just can't bring myself to do it."

"The longer answer: Yes, there is, at least by me. I have most of this run, but not all of the earliest ones. I agree with your assessment that the end of the run is marred by turning it away from tales of T'Challa, the Black Panther, into a…"

"I thought about it when you proposed a new reading project for yourself (which became Walt Simonson's Thor) but I didn't say anything. (I've got plenty of unfinished discussions of my own.) I didn't read much of Priest's…"

"Yes!"

"Yeah, I'm revisiting old threads today. I'd like to see a complete reboot of Hawkgirl/Hawkwoman featuring the Thanagarians, only this time they are truly alien, Katar is a stay at home dad and the bearer of children, the Thanagarians are…"

"I realized today that I just stopped this,and I'm unsure why. Is there interest in picking this back up?"