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[salinea]

1. Failed to go to epitanime this week end after all. Woke up too late I guess. x_x Only now am I suddenly regretting it a little bit. Oh well, not like I had any money to spend.

2. Watched Thor on friday (finally was showing on 2D at my nearby theater). Liked it overall. You know, there's still no Thor-related recs on my list of comics to be read. Just saying :3

3. Posted the ficlets in answer to everyone who prompted:

Title: Taunting
Fandom: Tokyo Babylon / X
Characters/Pairings: Seishirou/Subaru, Fuuma
Length: 328 words

Title: Rebel girl
Fandom: Revolutionary Girl Utena
Characters/Pairings: Juri
Length: 370 words

Title: Learn from the feet of the master
Fandom: Black Lagoon
Characters/Pairings: Balalaika/Revy
Length: 496 words

They're not great, but they're wri~ting, first since 2008, yay! Wouldn't mind getting more prompts, really :3

4. comicstore_news is missing an editor in case you have too much free time and feels like doing something selfless for fandom (it's good for finding good fanart on tumblr, if i say so).

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[eisen]

still no Thor-related recs on my list of comics to be read

WALT SIMONSON'S RUN. ALL OF IT.

The movie drew on it fairly significantly (the Casket of Ancient Winters that Asgard stole from Jotunheim is a plot device he invented, f'rex) but not heavily; the actual run itself is fairly easy to get into, being as it is self-contained (even the cross-over bits!), and it does not read as long as its breadth seems to indicate (it's something like six TPBs long, and goes by with the speed of three).

I think it might be out of print now, but it should still be acquirable through interlibrary loans and such, either under the THOR: VISIONARIES: WALTER SIMONSON or THOR: LEGENDS: WALTER SIMONSON label or maybe some other name, depending on which reprint you grabbed when (there was some inconsistency with the trade dress going on there, but not in terms of the numbering). "Simonson" plus "Thor" should get the right results in a Boolean search, though.

The Simonson run on Thor pretty much made me a life-long fan of the character, at least for the duration of that entire arc. And I'm not the only one - Simonson's run still defines Thor to a lot of fans, even to this day, for better or worse.

After that (or before it, depending on your preference for long vs. short), you need to read the complete eight-issue run of THOR: THE MIGHTY AVENGER by Roger Langridge and Chris Samnee. There's a lot the movie took from this story, too, and eight issues is an easier read than, say, six TPBs no matter which way you slice it. This run also had a coda in Marvel's Free Comic Book Day offering this year, so that's a bonus ninth issue if you want it (and you should because Thor teams up with Captain America to fight Loki pretending to be Merlin and it's great), but don't stress if you can't get it.

Those are the two big recs I think everyone gives people for Thor, and for good reason - they're pretty much the best two Thor runs ever published and they're both high on the new-reader-accessibility front, and they're both very different while still being at their core very similar.

[salinea]

woot, awesome rec is awesome! :D *adds to list*

Is Thor the Mighty Avenger that short and lamented series that was full of cute and adorable which everybody loved at scans_daily?

Thank you! This will be very helpful to me ♥

[eisen]

'tis the very same, yes. /nod

[salinea]

okay, yay fluffy comic :D

[flo-nelja.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, pour les comics de Thor, je suis surtout fangirl de Loki, donc je pense que je serais biaisée. ^^

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

... c'est pas vraiment gênant. ^^

[flo-nelja.livejournal.com]

Alors, ce que j'ai aimé de Thor... (sachant que je n'ai pas vraiment de sympathie pour Thor le personnage, dans à peu près aucune version, mais j'aime les mythes nordiques ; ce sont mes biais)

- L'arc de Straczynski de 2007-2008. Ca se passe après le Ragnarök, et Thor/Donald Blake retrouve les dieux qui sont toujours vivants dans l'inconscient collectif humain pour reconstruire Asgard sur Terre. Ca se passe pendant Secret Invasion et le début de Dark Reign, c'est là que Loki se retrouve genderswapped. ^^;;

- Loki, de Rodi et Ribic, réédité récemment sous le titre Thor and Loki, blood brothers. En gros, c'est de la fanfic centrée sur Loki, où il a réussi à conquérir Asgard et s'interroge sur pourquoi il est insatisfait et ce qu'il veut vraiment. C'est la premier comics de Marvel que j'ai lu. A cause du titre. Ha ha. ^^;;

- Il paraît que l'arc de Walter Simonson des années 80 est vachement bien. J'ai lu quelques extraits, et j'ai beaucoup aimé (en particulier le passage où il est transformé en grenouille, oh, et un où il entreprend de raconter des histoires de la mythologie nordique à des gamins d'un de ses amis humains, qui ne sont pas stupides et conséquemment grillent son identité secrète tout de suite ^^)
Par contre, quand j'ai commencé à le lire du début, il y avait des histoires d'alien qui m'intéressaient moins (Beta Ray Bill, tu le connais peut-être), et puis bon, c'est les années 80, avec toutes leurs cases gratuitement fuchsia. ^^ Mais un jour je le lirai en entier !

- Et puis sinon, je vais être horriblement biaisée mais j'aime beaucoup deux histoires des X-men de 1985 avec Loki en méchant : The Gift (qui est un crossover X-men/Alpha Flight) et Home is Where the Heart is/There's no Place like Home (un crossover X-men/New Mutants, qui utilise plein d'aspects de la mythologie nordique pas souvent exploités chez Marvel, en particulier on voit d'autres mondes qu'Asgard et Midgard)

Et sinon, ces temps-ci, il en sort plein, plein, à cause du film, et je dois avouer que si tu récupères d'autres recs je veux bien les partager aussi. ^^

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Merci!! okay ça m'a l'air cool pour débuter.

Pour l'instant la seule autre rec que j'ai obtenu c'était le run de Walter Simonson, donc peu utile. A oui, et une série Thor Mighty Avenger de Roger Langridge et Chris Samnee mais j'ai pas l'impression que ce soit très Loki-esque.

[flo-nelja.livejournal.com]

L'autre recommandation de Walter Simonson permet au moins de confirmer mes impressions. :-)

C'est sur quoi, la série en question ? Je peux bien essayer autre chose ; c'est toujours de la mythologie nordique, après tout. :-)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

C'est sur quoi, la série en question ?
ben euh, moi je l'ai pas encore lu! Tout ce que je sais c'est qu'elle est reputée être cute et adorable, que scans daily l'adore, et dans les cans que j'avais vu, Thor partait faire des rencart avec Jane Foster.

[q99.livejournal.com]

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They're not great, but they're wri~ting, first since 2008, yay! Wouldn't mind getting more prompts, really :3-

Lesse.... *goes through the list of ones you've posted on* Claymore!

Miria and Helen, "Behind Deneve's back"

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

wow, not gonna work, not only have i never written anything for Claymore, but I've never even read fics for it! o_o

[q99.livejournal.com]

I like to pick the tricky ones it seems ^^ Alright, then how about Melancholy of Haruhi?

Haruhi and Nagato, "Yuki Unleashed"

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

*ahem*

I list most of my fandoms in the user info, but it's a bit out of date; otherwise you can look at my delicious account for hints of which fandom I read fics for. ^^;

[q99.livejournal.com]

That may be helpful, I've just been looking at tags to see what anime you've *seen* ^^

*Looks*... you have an Azula/Smellerbee fic tagged! Though Azula/Ty Lee is a bit easier...