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Thor: God of Thunder #10 by Alex Trofin, Ive Svorcina, Jason Aaron, Ionuț Olteanu, Linda Pricăjan, Esad Ribić, Mircea Pricăjan
3.0

Sometimes you're reading a story and the things you expect to happen play out in front of you, and they're satisfying anyway. The bomb was always going to go off, and the tension between acting like a god, and trying to rid the universe of gods, was always going to come back to bite Gorr in the arse. And that's all well and good, but the most interesting bit here, in my opinion, was small - Gorr losing an eye to Thor. This sets them up as a sort of double image, but again the focus on action and hammers (I'm sorry, I don't give a shit about the stupid hammers) takes attention away from what could be a really strong piece of characterisation using the ideas of empathy and sight - seeing through someone else's eye(s), taking on their perspective. Which Thor does a little, but the focus seems to have slipped a bit.