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The thing about Dynamite Thor is that dynamite was more than the solution to all his problems; it was how he did everything. Dynamite was his only verb. He tossed a stick of dynamite at police involved in a shootout just to get their attention, which would probably be my conclusion if you gave me an unlimited research grant to discover the worst possible time to throw dynamite. But throwing dynamite never didn't work! The cops took one look at a man dressed in a dozen sticks of TNT and zero pairs of pants who had just thrown explosives at them, and instantly put him in charge of negotiations. And do you want to guess Dynamite's plan for those negotiations? You're right! It was fucking dynamite!

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"Glad I could help, officers! And if you need this for your paperwork, the suspect or suspects' last words were 'WHAM!'"

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It cannot be overstated how little Dynamite Thor did other than throw dynamite. Hours after it is born, a mayfly dies knowing nothing but mayfly orgy, and each of those dead insects had a wider variety of interests than Dynamite Thor. The only cliffhanger in a Dynamite Thor adventure is whether he will stop his enemy by bombing an inanimate object near him or by turning him into 5,000 new inanimate objects. Here are two examples from the same issue, and I didn't alter these or change their order in any way:

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Even that guy can't believe he's alive.