Thor confronted his mother Gaea about her machinations in Midgard... and the dark secrets she had kept from him. Meanwhile, a trap was prepared - baited with blood vengeance, laced with insidious poison and carefully set by she who perhaps cared for the Odinson best. This is the story of the IMMORTAL THOR...and of the women who loved him.
Rated T+
Immortal Thor #8 offers up a visually striking issue that builds on the mythic implications of Thor's world. The series excites us as it builds out what we know of the old gods and while Thor is smaller than ever, he's also the only hero standing in the way of destroying Earth. It's epic in many ways. Read Full Review
Roberson delivers some fantastic art in the issue. The visuals are wonderfully detailed and filled with great imagery that serves the character perfectly. Read Full Review
This presentation of the earth goddess leans heavily into the imagery surrounding all of the Ut-Gard figures witnessed so far, considering what exactly the Earth's interests and aspects would reflect. Although this dialogue works hard to lay the narrative groundwork for the series to come with plenty of exposition, the depiction of this history is vivid enough to distract. Read Full Review
:Immortal Thor #8 has the God of Thunder confront his birth mother Gaea, the Earth herself, on why she unleashed the Elder Gods of Utgard. Unfortunately, Gaea's answer and motivation for why she caused all of this is bad, painfully clich for a character like her, and it makes little sense in the context of the main Marvel Comics universe why she'd think unleashing destructive, skyscraper-sized elder gods like Toranos would lead to anything good. The only good things in this comic are the art by Ibraim Roberson and Matthew Wilson's colors, and Thor's stalwart heroic characterization. Read Full Review
The Immortal Thor #8 slowly moves the plot forward with all the pomp and circumstance of a funeral dirge. To Ewing's credit, Thor's adventure feels grand in scope and scale, but simple questions with simple answers reveal themselves too slowly to hold anyone's attention. Read Full Review
TURNS ON THE IMAGINATIVE JUICES
The foreboding atmosphere each panel brilliantly throws at the reader keeps the intrigue high. Thor coming face to face with mother Gaia gets some background on Atum the Sun god and how Gaia has the ability "key" from Utgard Loki to unlock the gates which causes extinction level events when she pleases.
Obviously being a symbol of the environmentalist climate change ideology mother Gaia is tired of humans using her and treating her like shit with Roxxon oil. A bit on the nose and kind of hokey but Thor's response brings you back into the comic world.
Thor chops her head off with a vicious swing, I loved this. Again I'm sure Ewing is a leftist and is trying to push his politi more
Plot
THOR needs answers, after the Loki of Utgard told them that Gaea, Thor's mother was the one who opened the portal between our world and Utgard.
Gaea explains that she has used that portal every time the planet's inhabitants exceed their activities and endanger the planet, she used the Utgard portal to eliminate the dinosaurs.
This conversation was violent and in a gloomy setting, where Gaea resides and prepares the next world annihilation. She herself accepts that her mercy towards the world comes in the form of Thor.
Thor is going to communicate with the corporation that pollutes the most in the world, Roxxon, because he needs a global change to stop Gaea's apocalyptic plan.
In Roxxon h more
A really good issue as we really start to delve into the Roxxon storyline a bit. It doesn't happen until the final few pages of the book, but everything before it was great and I continue to be excited for this storyline. The dialogue between Thor and Gaea was relatively long, but just about everything worked well. Ewing is the man.
It's Al Ewing. Of course it's good.
I love how Ewing tells the stories within the stories, very well done.
This series has two issues: things are not happening fast enough; it's not worth five bucks.
Felt overly done. Feels like it has grand ideas with unnecessary things that bog it down.
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