![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjVL4m7qTSP32InziEK9jweQ1lMW1UkwaW68cUMsUiav4tDve7I78xXAvjoZ41hKq293ENftP97qAf4b7ZG4nPCluS-D534aYa-5i7VbQLORMqHkAhXppi7jkcQ52jhkKNkYZm1ltnsKk/s400/ThorAsgardMap.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg)
These are the epic-inspiring sights of Asgard as pictured in Journey Into Mystery Annual #1.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd_XhGOlltZ9g9Y3u6vW70Uvm78thEJwOiQIbXyjnnFzGW7JzZTf9K9_06u8_B_h8j8C5QFrZgT2YZuunELWXvgPW7Wcc7clWLcE6KJLHTz3yRd7Yol5obKQIOwTlBx9eBP7CWFsi7VlM/s400/23892.jpg)
Jack Kirby offers up a spectacle of a city in which only gods could live. (Admittedly it does have a whiff of Disneyland about it. Who knew there was shopping in Asgard!)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1lejWLJDJRc3FPQLaLhiop44P8X2oScY-SWZZ-Kk37Sbcsep7CY0jxwLSXaforEaf-_-UPAiHgvJf1ZYHRCkqMXS3W1KA534s1b1O5FhT8IKMY2ekxtjFWOAdlLmR4sYXVn1dOHoQI9s/s400/kirby-thor.jpg)
Here is an image of a smouldering Asgard after Ragnarok has come.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm14VFLpOSjQAx3joXgyUVwXYVNChmPCBPijAOyWb77L31PZWgkcSVNbux-6ix5C2TmCrZXtRbfgy65owxpvLCKwMqc_1ME4os4wWA-pj6AJmmmOzjPELqlnYy52oZzLj1VeCdFMPn6iY/s400/29672.jpg)
This ruin is shown in the Tales of Asgard story "Aftermath" in Thor #128.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNt74GuHdWlcd8glohDmFOJisK1v9ZHTiIVFR79o3M6X9J3kcKXXUQtSL81Y6rSLcwb7BhLi3scZ5LXJ2W_P9E7IiiGLpIBBdpnq5qm-TTjShhcbQPVc4gUvZfrai4Yv_X1JjsOiDMBI4/s400/NewGods1-01-763x1024.jpg)
And here is that same tableau represented some years later in New Gods #1.
Here the fall of the old gods becomes the fertile ground upon which new gods find purchase.
It's worth noting too, that the textures supplied by much-maligned Vinnie Colletta go a long way to thread these images together thematically. Whatever the criticisms of Colletta, there's no denying to my eye the sheer wonder that he and Kirby produced when meshed together.
I need to read all of Kirby's Thor issues and follow that up with another reading of the Fourth World material. I really do.
Rip Off
"Who knew there was shopping in Asgard?"
ReplyDeleteK-Mart is EVERYWHERE, man!
I guess we know now why Odin was so stylish. He was a clothes hog.
ReplyDeleteRip Off