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octavia_cade 's review for:
Thor: God of Thunder #20
by Jason Aaron
It's funny how most of my ratings for this series of comics are reliant on what I think of the villain. It's their efficacy that drives the story, often enough, and if I can't warm to them it's harder for me to warm to the story they're driving. (By "warm to", I don't mean like or admire; I mean get interested in.) And I can see the reasoning here: by their very nature, comics are so brief that they're reliant on metaphor to give layers of meaning to their stories, so it's understandable that Agger is made literally monstrous here. But it's not literal monstrosity that's the cause of our environmental problems, it's simple small-minded selfishness, and I'm not sure that dressing that up as something else makes it any more compelling. If anything, it simplifies and removes blame from the vast complicit majority. Fixing that problem is too complex to explore in comics, perhaps, so we get the metaphor. And it doesn't quite work for me, which means that while I'm enjoying this storyline, I'm enjoying it as I enjoy popcorn: as something fun but slight. Still, popcorn has its place...