Utilizing Mike del Mundo’s mad, vibrant, and chaotic artwork, we’re told War supporting narratives featuring concluding story beats for supporting cast members like Odin, Roz Solomon, Cul Borson, and even, after the war, central villain of the piece Malekith the Accursed. It’s the comic book equivalent of turning off the lights and locking the door on his way out. While telling the bombastic conclusion to long-running threads over in War of the Realms, Aaron is able to utilize the 16 issues of 2018’s Thor to tell stories, large and small, addressing supporting cast and narrative themes. The twenty issues collected herein are, by necessity of the largeness of the preceding narrative, all over the place. In this volume, we receive the finale of something so huge, so monumental, that it can only conclude at the very end of the universe. 5 finds us, after four volumes collecting seven years of stories, at the end of the Thor run that opened my-and many others’-eyes to the complexities and joys of Asgard (and Asgard-adjacent) spaces and peoples.
Thor by Jason Aaron: The Complete Collection Vol. Thor was no longer tertiary, it was essential. The whole confusing concerns of true gods in the Marvel Universe-something that never quite jived with the Starlin-and-Lim view of the cosmos I grew up within Silver Surfer-suddenly felt impossibly and fittingly huge and palatable. Esad Ribić’s artwork was ethereal, otherworldly, and the opening overtures of the series embraced a sense of godlike eternity.
When the crew hit Broxton, I started to get to know them a little better, to actively participate in Thor comics on their own grounds-but, still, a lot of that reading came in support of that Bendis-era barrage of crossovers and events I had to read Thor so I could read Siege.īut when Thor: God of Thunder hit a full decade ago this November, something felt different.
When the first Thor film hit cinemas, I knew enough to know what The Destroyer was on sight but didn’t quite understand its narrative significance.
The (then nine) realms were unnamed vagaries in my head, as were major, non-Loki villains. What’s more is that the wholly incredible, insulated world of Asgard, with its vast cast of supporting characters and mythology, often felt impenetrable to a casual fan.
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