It’s been confirmed by L.A. Times’ Hero Complex blog and then by Comic Book Resources’ Robot 6 – Matt Fraction will be taking over Thor at the close of Kieron Gillen and Billy Tan’s run. While this has pretty much been known for over a week after Marvel Publisher Dan Buckley effectively said it in an interview, we now have official confirmation. So what do I think of this?
Find out after the jump.
I have an odd relationship with this choice. While I love some of Matt Fraction’s work (I did pick him as the writer of the next decade – mostly based off what I think he’ll do, not my opinion on his writing), I do think he’s a fairly inconsistent writer. One thing I have really liked that he has written were a series of Thor one-shots that came out while JMS and Oliver Copiel were working through their incredible run. We know he can write the Asgardian God of Thunder, we know he can handle the cast, and we know he can do so exceedingly well.
So I have faith in Fraction.
We’ll see though. I’ll without a doubt be picking this up and it has the potential to be an exceptional run, but I will remain a skeptic until Fraction proves himself to be more consistent (aka Uncanny X-Men ceases to suck).
Now I just want someone to explain to me why Kieron Gillen and Billy Tan couldn’t just keep their run going. Their first issue was awesome and I was really looking forward to a nice run between the two of them.
Note: We found out later that John Romita Jr. is only actually working on the Free Comic Book Day Thor/Iron Man comic, not the Thor series itself.
