If you’ve never visited Multiversity before right now, there’s something you should probably know: as much as we love comics around here, we’re also rather large fans of beer. Not in a self-destructive way or anything like that, but from that one Friday Recommendation that one time to the oft-inebriated 4 Color News and Brews team, we’re obviously a fan of the substance. However, if there is one thing a beer drinker can often attest to, its that sometimes there is just never a bottle opener around when you need one. It’s happened to the best of us at the worst of times, and creative ways have been invented to work around this issue (someone I used to know could smack the bottle against a table in a way that didn’t shatter the glass but knocked the cap off — I am eternally impressed).
Now there is never again a reason to fret about access to your favorite bottled alcoholic beverage! Marvel and Diamond Select Toys will be releasing a bottle opener shaped like everyone’s favorite hammer of justice, Mjolnir, so that you can open your favorite beer bottles with grand purpose. The hammer, pocket sized and enscribed with the familiar powerful endowment from Odin himself, will double both as a device to battle your chaotic evil brother-in-law and control the lightning as well as to create access to your “Nectar of the Gods” of choice. Truly, this is an item that, if given from you as a gift, will prove your eternal love and deevotion to the recipient’s well being.
The item at this moment has an ambiguous 2012 release date, and will be available both at your favorite comic book shop as well as specialty realtors (the kind that deal in “awesome”). Marvel’s press release also notes that this is the “first in a series”, so one can only imagine what’s next — portable Wolverine adamantium claws? Some kind of Hercules mini-keg? Your own miniature version of Tony Stark?
