Norse Noir
The sound and the light hit my back to remind me of who I am, where I come from.
I walk this ancient road of fratricide, with dear old dad watching me from the rainbow that only seems to be made of black these days. The good eye stares, but it’s the power of the empty one that really penetrates me, fills me with dread and hopelessness and every other god-forsaken emotion the Norse aren’t supposed to embody.
Odin wants me to murder Loki. My own brother.
But I wear this badge now, the weight of it heavier than any rune forged hammer. And ever since that hot, wet August night when that dame in green walked into my office, I’ve known that I’m more man than god. It’s by the laws of man that Loki will be punished.
So stick it in your eye hole, pops. No more lightning. No more thunder. Cigarettes, scotch, and a good woman. Those are what I want to be the god of now.
May 27th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
I like the whole Thor noir thing. Curt, you just in a Marvel mood lately?
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May 27th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
See? Why can’t Marvel be this fucking imaginative with the Noirs? Thor Noir is a NOBRAINER! Just think about the Royal Tenenbaums-esque family politics that would make up INHUMANS NOIR! God, why do they keep going for fucking Daredevil and Punisher?
Seriously, great, great strip.
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May 27th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Very Oeming, Chris. Kudos! Good job! I like Thor’s outfit.
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May 27th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Where are the comics where Curt and Chris murder each other Spy vs Spy style?
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May 27th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
The last panel should read, “I book thee …”
‘Bookest’ would be second-person singular.
Apart from that, fantastic.
However, if it’s a comment on how Marvel writers tend to fuck up Thor’s speech, I’m with you all the way.
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May 28th, 2009 at 5:58 am
by the way i just read a review of “Luke Cage Noir”……the writer says that Cage will be speaking in the tones of the 20′s and 30′s time period….how does Joe Q still have a job..someone please tell me how
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May 28th, 2009 at 7:39 am
@Martiniman
“Events”. Lots of ‘em. He’s a businessman first these days and a comics guy second.
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May 28th, 2009 at 11:03 am
@Brian St. Claire
and thats marvel’s problem these days
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May 28th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
awesome.
hope this isn’t the last time we see Thor Noir on here
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May 31st, 2009 at 9:06 pm
I get it… Thor is Mike Hammer!
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June 1st, 2009 at 10:10 am
OherJoel – Now that’s inspired.
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July 18th, 2009 at 11:55 am
when you guys get a store, I want a high quality giclee thing of this
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November 24th, 2011 at 3:32 pm
i thought of the idea of norse and noir and did a search to see if anyone else had said something about it, i’m starting to use poetry or something like it, but i am a christian and yours seems a little perverted, like eye *****
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