Jms leaving Thor ?

[sonor80]

So, I just read on ign that the sept. Giant sized Thor, will be his " swansong" . Anyone else hear this ?

[Jan]

I know that in a recent interview JMS said he'd need to think about the future considering some Big Event that had to do with Asgard and it sounded like he'd be thinking about leaving if they dragged him into it (which, of course they'd pretty much have to).

Do you have a link?

Jan

[Belbo]

The source for all this would appear to be Rich Johnson

JMS To Leave Thor

Marvel and the more mainstream comics sites (CBR, Newsarama, IGN etc) don't have anything up yet. All sorts of rumours in the forums as to who'll take over, of which Mark Millar may be the most promising.

Joe Quesada has an almost-daily column on CBR now - the next installment should be interesting ..... (someone's already posted a question in the Q&A thread).

[Jan]

JMS has now confirmed that he's leaving "Thor".

Damn

Jan

[sonor80]

Damn indeed. I was at my local comic shop today and when he handed me Thor he said, "Bad news, no more jms after sept."

[SmileOfTheShadow]

Gosh.

Darnit.

[SmileOfTheShadow]

Thor 602 came out this week...and it's fantastic. The story's building bigtime just like a normal JMS story. I'm so sad to see this go.

[PlasmaBoy]

slow learners

man!

I just subscribed to Thor, the first comic run to which I've actually subscribed for 30 years!

When will THEY(Marvel, and all others) learn to just let JMS do what he wants to do! It's not like he's ever had a giant failure with a project! (at least that I know of). I can see why he's DC-bound.

[Jan]

There's an interview with Joe Quesada here that doesn't quite talk about the 'Siege' story but explains how JMS's leavign came about.

Jan

[Nastastu]

It's reasons like this that I respect JMS. Since this is originating in a Marvel-esque thread, I will leave it at "Nuff said."

[Jan]

'Nuff said indeed.

That said, assuming that there's no editorial interference that ticks me off in the last few issues JMS does, I'll keep reading Thor for the moment. If the Siege story is so convoluted that I can't get the basics from the main title, then I'll drop it.

Jan

[Chris Nolan.ca]

FYI, his final issue -- "Thor: Giant Size Finale (By JMS)" hits stands this week (it was originally called "Defining Moments Giant-Size") -- for the collectors there are 3 different covers.

You can see a preview of it here.