While it may be overstating the case to recount superhero comics as our modern myths in a post-religious age,there are certainly some stories that possess taken on a near-mythic quality as "the stories you possess to read": Watchmen; The murky Knight Returns; All-Star Superman; The Death of Captain Marvel; "The Night Gwen Stacy Died." These stories are held in tall esteem, often for a generation or more.
For Fantasy Week here at ComicsAlliance, and I wanted I'd dive into a run that's not only held up as one of the defining Marvel stories of the 1980s,but also the tall point of its particular character's history. I wanted to know: is Walter Simonson's legendary four-year run on Thor, and the stories related to it, and really that fine,or just fondly remembered by the people who read it as kids?
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Source: comicsalliance.com