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Bleeding Cool reported this morning on the early availability of Ultimate Comics Thor #2 on the iPhone and iPad – followed by its sudden withdrawal and disappearance from the reader app from those who had paid to download it. Said purchasers have just received the following letter; Thank you for your recent purchase of Ultimate Comics Thor[...]

Scheduled for May is the Thor By Walt Simonson Omnibus, collecting the writer/artist's legendary enire run on the character in one book. The American version is unscheduled and unpriced on Amazon, but over on Amazon.co.uk, it's listed with a £99.95 cover price, 1192 pages with a 16th March delivery date. The volume will collect The Mighty Thor[...]

Just as he did on Lord Of The Rings, Stuart Townsend has jumped ship from Kenneth Branagh's Thor, where he was to have played that part of Fandral, of th Warriors Three. Maybe it's because Stuart Townsend was starting more and more to resemble Volstagg? Just as he did on Lord Of The Rings, Stuart Townsend[...]

Tickets are only available by contacting the producers, here. So if you'd like to see Brian Blessed and family live before he becomes Odin in Kenneth Branagh's Thor, this might be a good opportunity. If you're interested, don't walk Run! At 3pm on Sunday 6th September, Brian Blessed, his wife Hildegard Neil, his daughter Rosalind Blessed and[...]

Thor has been one of Marvel's surprise performing titles over the last couple of years, ascribed principally to the writing of Babylon 5, Changeling and Amazing Spider-Man's Joe Michael Straczynski on the title. This was a real turn around for the book, a title that had languished and been cancelled, put on hold for a significant[...]

Is a Street Poet Ray or Yuppies In Love movie entirely off the cards? Expect to see the Thor movie set in the present day, not the glorious Valhalla past, and you won't see Donald Blake Though you will see Hulk in Avengers. Marvel believe need an international star for the lead role in Captain America, to[...]

I understand that British actor Brian Blessed has been cast in Kenneth Branagh's THOR movie, based on the Marvel Comics title, as the character Odin. Blessed is best known for his roles as Caesar Augustus in I CLAUDIUS and King Of The Hawk Men in FLASH GORDON as well as being a charity campaigner and mountaineer. He[...]