I'm new to reading Thor comics - have only read this series, so far - so I'm a bit under the impression that this issue would mean more to me if I knew who Malekith was. He seems like a returning player in the whole Thor mythos, but from my perspective he's just another psycho looking to cause a large amount of slaughter. Which, great, this is clearly the storyline for the next however many comics, but I feel like I've just had this story. Isn't this how the God of Thunder series started? With the God Butcher roaming around causing havoc with large-scale and affecting slaughter? It is emotionally affecting, I grant, but the manipulation in it's fairly clear and it feels like a retread so soon after the last. I did like the spiders though.