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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 1687883" data-attributes="member: 4090">If you get a chance, you might want to pick up Simonson's "Orion" run. It was 25 issues, and it started out a bit slow (for my tastes), but ended up being one of the best comic series I've ever read. It follows a distinct development path- I'd say it's akin to the mythical "Heroic Journey" but I don't know that that adequately conveys the quest that Orion goes on from start to finish. It's too bad that the series got cancelled- it really was that good. And I didn't know much about Orion before I read it (only picked it up because of Uncle Walt), nor did I care much about the New Gods (aside from bad mofo Darkseid), but Walt really got me invested in the character. If you liked his work on Thor, you owe it to yourself to pick up Orion (which he wrote and illustrated). If you only can pick up one issue, I'd say to pick up the last issue, #25. It may seem weird to suggest the last issue of the series, but it is a story that can stand alone, and is a truly epic tale in and of itself. As the climax to the previous 24 issues, it is an amazing piece, bringing Orion full circle and setting him off on a bright new path. I really, *really* would have loved to see what Walt would have done next. *sigh*Also, most of Walt's Thor work has now been collected in TPB form and released recently from Marvel. As far as Elric goes, Walt also collaborated with Michael Moorcock several years ago on an original story of MM's (three, actually) called Multiverse. It tells the story of three incarnations of the Eternal Warrior (one of whom is Elric), illustrated by three different authors (Walt draws the story arc featuring the character of the Rose, introduced in MM's War Against Heaven trilogy), and the stories all weave together in the end in a climax illustrated by Simonson. Also available in TPB from DC.</blockquote>

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