In many ways my first Kirby monster was Mangog. (Technically the first was Fin Fang Foom in the pages of Fantasy Masterpieces.) Unleashed in the pages of Thor #154 the grotesque Mangog was set to march on Asgard and bring down Ragnarok by drawing the Odinsword from its massive scabbard.
He's an impossibly extreme creature, with an enormous head and clutching claws capable of crushing Asgardians on a whim.
The combined hate of a billion billion beings, Mangog was an unstoppable force bent on utter destruction.
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Who would have thought that a billion billion people could all have had such bad teeth?
ReplyDeleteThe wild exaggeration of the design is one of the features which makes it work. It doesn't work in every scene, but when it does it's awesome.
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I'm reading this one next! I have one of those oversized Treasury Editions from the 1970s. Flipping through it, I found some incredible panels!
ReplyDeleteIt's my favorite Ragnarok story ever. Enjoy!
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I finally read it and it was magnificent! Such a simple story that relentlessly goes forward to doom and you wonder how they're ever going to get out of it. I can see where the ending could seem like a deus ex machina to some but it makes sense and does not feel like we're being put on.
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