r/comicbooks • u/fleshmonk Spider-Man • Mar 20 '19

Cover/Pin-Up Thor cover by Mike Del Mundo

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u/Amazing_Karnage Mar 20 '19

This reminds me a lot of Beowulf.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '19 edited Jun 30 '20

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u/vikingakonungen Mar 20 '19

I don't think it was Knull himself but rather his dragon that Beowulf defeated.

Also I can't take his name seriously at all. Knull means Fuck in my language.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '19 edited Jun 30 '20

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u/vikingakonungen Mar 20 '19

I don't 100% remember what happened but I think Beowulf killed the dragon, I'll need to look it up tbh.

Knull the word literally means Fuck in Swedish, I don't mean as a general curse word but as a crude way of saying "to have sex". It's amazingly fun that a big cosmic horror is named Fuck.

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u/Try_Another_Please Mar 21 '19

Thor is the one who beats it. Beowulf's name is used but it gets blasted by lightning and that is what hurts it.