SDCC: Ultimate Comics: Thor by Hickman and Pacheco

Four-Issue Series Will Explore the Character's Origin

In October, you should add the four-issue Ultimate Comics: Thor series to your pull list. Why? Because it's written by Jonathan Hickman who is blowing everyone away on Secret Warriors, Fantastic Four and S.H.I.E.L.D. Oh, and if that doesn't convince you, it's drawn by Carlos Pacheco. Check out Pacheco's cover to issue #1 and some character sketches below.

The series will focus on the origin of the Ultimate Universe Thor and takes place before the first volume of The Ultimates by Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch. Hickman told Marvel.com:

"I'm trying to steer away from the direction that [writer] Matt Fraction is heading in for his run [on THOR] that he's getting ready to start," he notes. "It's different. All the surprises and all the cool little nuance stuff is all plot points and I'd hate to give that stuff away, but if you like Ultimate Thor, you'll be happy with it."

And as with Hickman's other books you can expect some bonus content in each issue to help flesh out the story.

"I have a lot to do with how the book is being laid out and how it's going to be collected. There's a certain kind of thematic thing that we're going for there. So, it's not the same as all of that stuff that I normally do, but it's in the same spirit. I'm really speaking more along the lines of that there's a presentation to the way that we're telling the story. Obviously, Carlos' art is the dominant thing as it's a comic, but there are some text pieces-not big chunks of dialogue, but text pieces-that kind of mark our journey as we're going through the story. It's just me screwing around as usual and trying to look at new, neat ways to lay things out."