I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates.The more knowledge the better seems like a solid rule of thumb, even though I have watched enough science fiction films to accept that humanity’s unchecked pursuit of learning will end with robots taking over the world.-Sarah Vowell

Friday, September 29, 2017

Thor: Volume Two Who Holds the Hammer by Jason Aaron (Writer), Russell Dauterman (Artist), Mattew Wilson (Color Artist), VC's Joe Sabino (Letterer), Noelle Stevenson (Writer), CM Punk (Writer), Timothy Truman (Artist) Marguerite Sauvage (Artist and Colorist), Rob Guillory (Artist and Colorist)


We left off with Dario Agger, the Minotaur who runs Roxxon, making a deal with King Malekith of Svartalfheim, a dark sorcerer elf who wants the ice giant's skull that Agger has.  Odin has given control of the Destroyer, Asgardia's most powerful weapon, to his evil brother Cul Borson to use it to seek out Thor and find out her identity and bring the hammer back to Asgardia.  Freya is not happy about this, nor is the man now known as Odinson who has a list of names of people he knows who could be Thor and is going around trying to cross them off.  On top of the list is S.H.I.E.L.D agent Roz Solomon who hasn't been seen in a while and has a beef with Roxxon. While he hunts down people from the list he finds out that Dr. Jane Foster, his former lover, is dying from cancer.

Thor goes to Roxxon to try to stop the deal Agger and Malekith is making but gets interrupted by Destroyer.  She takes Destroyer down under the island to protect the innocents.  At one time Destroyer gets a hold of Mjolnir and Thor has to fight to get it back.  But when Freya finds out what has happened she goes to Odinson and plans to head down to help Thor by herself. But Odinson knows some people who would be willing to help a fellow female. And a group of women including Scarlet Witch, Brunnhilde, Karnilla, Hildegarde, Spider-Woman, and Captain Marvel.  Will that be enough to destroy the Destroyer?  Also, will we finally find out who is the woman behind the mask?

Also included in this comic is three comics by three different artists involving Thor. The first one is Thor as an old man, the next one is the female Thor having an adventure on Asgardia, and the third is one of Thor before he has raised Mjolnir.  Then there's an old-time comic reimangined as if a woman had picked up Mjoliner but with a different story line than the current comic. One that fits with the early comics.  While it was enjoyable to watch the women coming together to help Thor out and the four comics at the end were nice this wasn't as good as Volume One. Let's hope that Volume Three proves to pick up the pace.

Link to Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Thor-Vol-Holds-Hammer-2014-2015-ebook/dp/B00XZD7E62/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506687687&sr=8-1&keywords=thor+who+holds+the+hammer

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