![]() ![]() I review books and comics and sometimes films on Mondays and Wednesday, and also provide monthly lists of all the books I've read and purchased. I started this blog in November 2011 as a way of chronicling my reading (importing some, but not most, of the posts from an old LiveJournal). 4 gets back to the core of what made vols. Walter Simonson knows his stuff, of course, but I felt like this volume didn't contain much meat. ![]() I've liked Balder's appearances in this series but don't know that I was clamoring for a spotlight for him. There are also four issues of a Balder the Brave miniseries collected here, which are decent. ![]() He doesn't get his father's soul back, but he does liberate trapped human souls. There are also some hijinks on Earth with Beta Ray Bill, and Thor decides to deal with the death of his father by invading Hel- as you do. 1 #359 (art by Walter Simonson)Īlso Thor has maybe the best "next issue" boxes:įrom Thor vol. Simonson actually got a credit in the film, which was nice.įrom Thor vol. This results in a pretty great Thor/Loki fight where Thor throws his hammer and then grabs Loki's neck so that when the hammer returns it will take off Loki's head:īetween when I wrote this review and made this scan, this scene was directly ported into Thor: Ragnarok. Loki of course wants it to be Loki, and uses Lorelei (who began pursuing Thor romantically in vol. 2: the army of Asgard is still trapped on Midgard* in Central Park (though when this is resolved, it's surprisingly easy), the city of Asgard is being rebuilt, and the question of who will rule Asgard is beginning to be considered. A lot of the book deals with the repercussions of the big battle in vol. 2 (including the death of Odin) and whatever is to come in vol. This volume of The Mighty Thor feels a bit transitional, between the epic battles of vol. ![]()
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