Monster-of-the-Week: …selection honoring the Year of the Snake. One friend suggested Thulsa Doom’s giant pet who runs afoul of Arnie in 1982’s Conan the Barbarian...
…or the snake with whom Arthur O’Connell has a candid chat in The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao…
Fine choices both, but they're edged out by another friend’s suggestion: the Midgard Serpent, aka Jormungand, the vast, world-encircling, tail-chasing reptile of Norse mythology, and for the god Thor, in his career as an angler, the perennial One That Got Away. Here’s the Middie in a painting by Henry Fuseli…
…and here’s the Marvel Comics version….
No comments:
Post a Comment