Anyone who works on a house or a car knows that sometimes you need just the right tool for the job. Well, the same goes for dealing with giants, and as Thor can testify, nothing beats a good war hammer. Unfortunately, even the impressive nutbuster featured in this comic would barely reach the kneecaps of most of those odious creatures.
Finally, an explanation for everyone! Surt’s wife is supposed to be pretty hot, BTW.
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Baldur seeks out his brother Thor for help with the global warming problem on Midgard. But is Thor the right god for the job?
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Probably best this way. I don’t know about you, but I wasn’t looking forward to Polar Bear Wrestling and the Ordeal of the Flaming Log (see last week’s cartoons).
I made a comic a while back that referred to Freya getting hauled off by the giants and a reader kindly notified me that Freya was never hauled off by giants in the original myths. Of course, that doesn’t mean she was never hauled off by giants in myths that were never recorded, or that this comic strives for complete accuracy when referencing the old stories (Heimdall never had a radar dish on his helmet either). But I agree with the reader in the sense that Freya is too tough to get hauled off by giants each time some cartoonist is trying to be funny and it kind of betrays her spirit to show her as stealable. So here go the giants again, merely *thinking* about stealing Freya and remembering what happened the last time they made a play for her (something about Thor in a wedding dress with flaming red eyes).
Another issue I might as well address while I’m at it is that not all the giants in the Eddas were as stupid as the ones you see on this page, and some were renowned for their wisdom. I’m hoping to delve into the giants more at some point. Odin and Friends has yet to show fire giants and from what I understand they are quite sharper than the inbred hillbillies you’ve seen slaughtered here lately.
Hey, it’s certainly no bloodier than the Eddas!
When Thor saw the hammer his heart laughed within him, and he took courage. He first slew Thrym, the lord of giants, then he crushed all the giant’s kin. Finally he slew the old giantess who had begged for a bridal gift. Instead of coins she got the crack of the hammer. Instead of rings she received the mark of Mjöllnir.
This is wrong on so many levels, I don’t know where to start.
Loki trading with giants.
Loki trying to rip of giants by selling them cat fur instead of mink.
Loki planning to skin Freya’s cats.
Skinning cats in general.
Skinning minks in general.
Lying to the giants about what really happened.
Loki has his own castle?
Truly the world is upside down.
Jotuns are gathering on the frontier again. Thor is released from jail. Nevermind his violent bender… the realm needs Thor and his hammer to smack down giants. Hooray, justice still reigns in Asgard!
The gods don’t like it when their magical weapons run wild. When they come home after a night on the town dripping with blood and brains. They say their magical weapons are short sighted and too single minded to make their own decisions. Mjolnir disagrees…
He follows a very simple and elegant philosophy: The Way of the Hammer.
If it moves, smash it!
Summer. Jotunheim. Good day for picnic. Man-kabob taste good. Please pass elf brain salad. Pappa, why me see tool fly in sky?
Mjolnir scores himself a triple crown, and the day is still young!
Incidentally, this is the first time one of the mysterious “giant women” has appeared in Odin and Friends. I hope I captured a bit of the monstrous sexuality that has caused many a warrior to sneak over the high mountain passes in hope of a secret rendez-vous. Those are jeans-shorts, by the way.
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