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Thor by J. Michael Straczynski Vol. 1 by J. Michael Straczynski
4.0

Okay so here we go. Another Thor first volume. This time I went back, past Jason Aaron to J. Michael Stacynski run and...well it's actually pretty fun!

Thor has returned to earth after being in the void for so long. His human like vessle (I'm a bit confused by this Blake stuff myself. Sorry, not big into Thor) and so he returns. However, coming back to earth he sees that Asgard is no more and all his people are gone. So he slowly begins to awaken his friends in various places around the world to bring them back and restore Asgard. On top of that Tony decides to pay his buddy a visit but this is after Civil War. Yes, the same Civil War Thor build a robot like Thor to kill people. Yeah...shit is about to go down.

Good: The thor vs iron-man issue, or should say, Thor smacking Iron-man down issue, is great. Pure emotion, awesome effects, epic as fuck, and Thor comes across as a mighty god. I also enjoyed him picking up the pieces of his life and trying to restore it all.

Bad: The ending was kind of getting boring (Until last two pages) and Loki coming back as a woman, while cool, was kind of just why? Like, we know Loki will betray again so why the fuck does Thor keep trying him?

Overall this is a really solid volume. It didn't blow me away or anything but I had a lot of fun reading it and will give the rest of this run a read for sure. A 3.5 out of 5.