Mighty Thor Vol. 2: Lords of Midgard

by Jason Aaron

Russell Dauterman (Artist), Rafa Garres (Artist), TBA (Script Writer), and Jason Aaron (Script Writer)

Collects Mighty Thor (2015) #6-12. The legend continues with Thors new and old! Loki spins a special ages-old tale of a young Odinson in action against a hulking great enemy. You wouldn?t like this Viking when he?s angry! But what incredible impact will this yarn from the past have on the present? Prepare for corporate espionage, Marvel-style, as some of the world?s most powerful and evil conglomerates go to war ? with Thor caught in the middle! But if Roxxon and the rest aren?t enough trouble, Jane Foster must contend with a new enemy: S.H.I.E.L.D.! Whose side will Agent Roz Solomon be on? Worse still, somehow millions of lives will depend on the God of Thunder saving Roxxon?s evil executive, Dario Agger! All this and?the Exterminatrix and the Silver Samurai?!

• ISBN10: 0785199667
• ISBN13: 9780785199663
• Publish Date: 25 July 2017 (first published 13 December 2016)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Out of Print: 29 March 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Marvel Comics
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 160
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780785199663

Reviews

Things are moving along in this volume with Jane, Roxxon, Solomon and the damage that is being done in the Ten Realms. You can see how the pieces and people are being put in place and you know that in the future comics, that these things will end in a big fight.

I've never read much Thor comics because the style never suited me, so I don't know a lot of the backstory only the basics or what I've read in other comics. I know the basics of Jane's story but I love how she is being portrayed in these volumes. She is strong and fighting the evil's in the whole galaxy, while she is sick with cancer.

I love that we get to see how strong she is when she's Thor but also how strong she is when dealing with cancer too. I love those few scenes we have her as just Jane Foster.

In this volume we see Shield is still trying to figure out who the new Thor is. We get a story on the origin of Mjolnir and how it chooses those to wield the Hammer. There is also 2 filler issues in the beginning, that were okay but the rest of the volume is great and finishes on a high.

I hope that soon Thor Odinson will learn the truth about Jane and I hope it will strengthen their bond with each other.

I love everything about this series and can't wait to read the next volume.

[Quirky Cat]

Despite still being relatively new to the game, and having little to no backup (thanks for that, Odin), Thor is still managing to kick butt and take names. Not to mention her use of Mjolnir is way more complex that Odinson’s ever was, at least that I’ve seen. I think those parts are my favorite, which is why this volume gets a five star rating, despite what is obviously two filler issues. That’s how amazing the Mjolnir scenes are (I may be a bit biased on that front).



Despite being only seven issues long, this volume is pretty full of villains, both of the super variety and legal variety. Agger is still in the game, though Exterminatrix and Silver Samurai sure to try to change that. Obviously Loki is still meddling, though his goal is still unclear. I’ve also lumping two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents into this category as well, since they actively go out of their way to make Jane/Thor’s life miserable.
The whole Agger versus Exterminatrix and Silver Samurai all started out as a hostile business takeover, nothing new for Agger I’m sure, other than the fact that he didn’t do too well in the fight. If it wasn’t for Agger’s failsafe, I probably wouldn’t have cared too much about this plot – it would really just be villains switching out – but Agger has his flying station set to crash into New York if he doesn’t deactivate it by a certain point. And thus our lovely Thor gets involved. While she’d probably be tempted to let them have their way with Agger normally, in this case she has to actually help save the guy (talk about irony) in order to stop the chain of events from continuing further.
It is at this point that I hate Agent Kurdle and Agent Krill. While admittedly they were right in suspecting Jane Foster is Thor, I think they handled the whole thing really poorly. I mean, arresting a woman dying of cancer? That’s a special kind of evil. Then they decide to try and arrest Thor, even though she’s she busy you know, trying to save New York and stuff. No big deal right, arresting a super hero is way more important than that (is my snark shining through there?).
The point of my rambling so much about all these events is that they lead up to one of my favorite Thor moments of all time. I almost don’t want to write it down, for that risks ruining the surprise for somebody else. Let’s just say that Mjolnir does something completely unexpected, and that something results both in saving Jane’s life, but also in getting the agents to back off.
I really have enjoyed reading a new twist on Thor, and am very excited to read The Mighty Thor Volume 3: Asgard/Shi’ar War. Though I don’t know an excessive amount about the Shi’ar. I should probably remedy that…


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