Product Description

We say thee HELL YEAH! With the mighty God of Thunder and Asgard to full glory, Thor is back in action with a vengeance! But as the Asgardians returned to this life and Thor returned to Midgard, so came the ills that have plagued the gods and man for millennia. Now, for the first time since their rebirth, Thor and his fellow hero-gods must venture forth from the Shining City to confront the growing evils that amass on their horizon - and within their walls. Collects Thor #7-600.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18354 in Books
• Published on: 2009-08-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

Customer Reviews

Great drama. A comicbook masterpiece
The artwork is spectacular ... Balder - a pure and noble knight - is cast in the visual mould of Richard the Lionheart. Odin is one-eyed, ram-helmeted, bear-skin clad and shamanic. The storm giants are blue-skinned and garlanded with fangs with tusks through their noses and horns dangling from their ear-lobes. Loki is an alluring, but intensly sinister, transexual and - the ultimate femme fatal - Hela - Goddess of death, is antler-headed and veiled in shadows...

The apocalyptic fall of the gods - 'Ragnarok' - has come and gone. A resurrected Asgard hovers above the Nevada desert. King Odin - trapped in the spirit world and watched over by the twin ravens of thought and memory - is locked in perpetual combat with Surtur, the fire demon. Thor, as Odin's successor, enters the spiritworld of the Odinsleep and therein learns of Odin's guilty secret - of how the throne was ursurped - and of King Bor's tragic curse. Meanwhile, Loki reveals a life-changing secret to Balder - a secret with far-reaching consequences for the throne of Asgard. The story then loops full-circle as Loki sets into sequence the whole cycle of destruction, ultimately toppling Thor from the throne.

A minor, but amusing subplot involves a developing 'courtship' between a modern mortal - the baseball-capped 'Bill' - and the olde world White Goddess Kelda. The story is also deftly interwoven into the mainframe Marvel universe - set during the first anniversary of Captain America's death, against the 'Dark Reign' backdrop.(Thor uses divine-power to communicate with Steve Roger's beyond the grave, whilst later on Osborn's 'Dark Avengers' make a very brief cameo appearance.)

(One minor nitpick is the portrayal of Jane Foster as a typically modern woman - ie hardened and career-driven, utterly devoid of any softness. There is a particularly superfluous, cliched scene in which she slaps Donald Blake across the face - as cliched as the obligitory nerd who turns out to be the real hero, or the bully/jock who turns out to be 'gay' etc - so twistedly 'political-correct' and contrived.) However, apart from this very minor nit-pick, this really is a work of exceptionally high calibre.

A true masterpiece. Can't wait for vol 3.

Better than Vol. 1
Basically, all you need to know is that this is brilliant. The art is a sight to behold, the plot is great, Loki is as mysterious as ever and there's the return of old characters as well as well as some new ones...

Highly recommended, and essential to any Thor fans.