With the Marvel Studios films, Thor has gone from one in a long line of mythological heroes people might know to arguably the most popular mythological hero out there ...
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Marvel’s Marvel’s Thor: Ragnarok is loosely based on three Thor comics: The Unworthy Thor and the Ragnarok story arc, both of which derive from Norse mythology, and Planet Hulk, which, to our ...
Thor, a thoroughly entertaining and surprisingly funny thrill ride of a movie, is the kind of cinematic legend in which the only word that truly seems to fit is "epic." The Norse god was introduced to ...
Dr. Mathias Nordvig, a professor of Norse mythology, sits down with WIRED to compare and contrast Marvel's interpretations of Norse gods. Dr. Nordvig goes into great detail about everything from ...
Ragnarok isn’t just the end of Marvel’s Thor as we know him; it’s the end of the world. At least it is in Norse mythology. Told of primarily in the 13th century Old Norse texts, the Poetic Edda and ...
Neil Gaiman’s latest book won’t be in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it will have plenty of Thor. Gaiman revealed the cover and the publication date for his next book — Norse Mythology, featuring ...
Marvel has brought a certain strain of Norse mythology to the mainstream through Thor, Loki, and Odin’s family drama. And in a way, the franchise does justice to these three characters. They’re key ...
No contemporary fiction writer gets more of his power from the mythological tradition than Neil Gaiman. Almost all of his work, from the “Sandman” comics he wrote in the ‘80s and ‘90s to prose novels ...
Thor is one of the most talked-about characters in the God of War franchise. From being whispered about in God of War 2018 to ...
There was a moment during Neil Gaiman’s latest book, a novelistic retelling of Norse myths, where I couldn’t help but burst into laughter. It was during a chapter called “Hymir and Thor’s Fishing ...