#The Best Comics to Read Alongside Thor: Love and Thunder
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“The Best Comics to Read Alongside Thor: Love and Thunder”
<span class="mx-1">Yeah, no. These are not the comics you’re expecting.</span>
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By Brad Gullickson · Published on July 8th, 2022
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<em>This article is part of The Reading List, a recurring column where we encourage you to take your enthusiasm for a particularly groovy movie or TV series and direct it into a wide array of extracurricular studies. This entry picks the best comics to read alongside Thor: Love and Thunder.</em>
Although its subtitle indicates no relation to specific comic book arcs, Thor: Love and Thunder borrows heavily from the Jason Aaron/Esad Ribić/Russell Dauterman era. At the heart of Taika Waititi‘s film are the God Butcher and Jane Foster, the Mighty Thor storylines. They are well-regarded and frequently celebrated these days whenever Thor Odinson comics are mentioned. However, despite a few panel lifts here and there, Thor: Love and Thunder and those two glorious story arcs share little in common regarding tone.
Thor: Love and Thunder, like all Waititi movies, rapidly bounces between heartbreak, absurdity, and joyous stupidity. If you’re deeply invested in the God Butcher stuff from the books, you might find the experience alienating. Jane Foster’s turn as Thor is an essential narrative and emotional moment from the comics, and with such reverence comes a preciousness. Waititi and his co-writer Jennifer Kaytin Robinson happily antagonize preconceived notions. They’re doing their own thing. You either jive with it, or you don’t.
If you do jive with Thor: Love and Thunder, and you’re looking to continue that hair metal celebration by diving into some Thor comics, well, I’m not going to recommend the books by Aaron, Ribić, and Dauterman. They are brilliant. I love them deeply, and I’ve spoken about them elsewhere.
Meet Daniel Warren Johnson
Instead, I’ve comprised the Reading List below almost exclusively from writer/artist Daniel Warren Johnson‘s bibliography. Don’t look at these titles as clues or narrative links to the MCU. Thor appears, but he’s not the key to continuing your Thor: Loveand Thunder party. In many ways, Johnson is Taika Waititi’s comic book counterpart. He loves a good time. He is not afraid to be silly and frequently strives for the most captivating and ridiculous images possible.
As with Thor: Ragnarok and Thor: Love and Thunder, Daniel Warren Johnson’s comics are metal AF. They’re just rad, and that radness is accentuated by longtime collaborator and colorist Mike Spicer. Together they bend space and time to deliver designs and anatomy lessons that you won’t find in any other comic. And, as is critical with Taika Waititi movies, Johnson’s comics lull you into a false sense of silly security before they unleash purposefully heavy-handed emotional gut punches. You will cry reading every one of the comic books on this list. Also, you may snag a few tattoo ideas.