How do you end years upon years of an epic comic book run? With this fun, fitting, exciting, and heartfelt grand finale! Read Full Review

If youve been a fan of Aarons Thor, this is a must-read issue. Everything hes put into his run is present in this final chapter of the thunder gods story, and it all comes to a beautiful conclusion. If, however, you are one of the people that missed out on Aarons masterpiece, told over approximately one hundred issues, for whatever reason, you have shorted yourself hours of entertainment and superior writing. Go back. Please read it all. His original run on Thor: God of Thunder, both of the Jane Foster books, The Unworthy Thor, King Thor--all of it makes for a legendary character piece that will never be forgotten. This final issue is the crown jewel in Aarons most worthy achievement, and it should not be overlooked. Read Full Review

With the conclusion of King Thor #4, that's it. Seven years spanning and here we are at the culmination of everything the God of Thunder has been through since his first encounter with Gorr years ago. This was an epic in the making seven years ago, and ended turning this into exactly just that. I don't know what the next run of Thor will bring us, but that creative team will have some big shoes to fill if they aren't trying to captivate us with the embrace and terror of being a god. Read Full Review

If youre looking for a single issue to explain the true character of Thor, this is that issue. If youve been following Jason Aarons run for years now, you simply have to get this issue. Its gripping, well written, nostalgic, and wildly entertaining. Aaron immediately captures your attention and holds you tight until the very last page. Read Full Review

I am a sucker for stories about myth and storytelling and this is a fantastic love letter to story while also closing out one of the greatest Thor runs ever. If you're a lover of storytelling and believe in them like Jason Aaron does I highly recommend reading this to get the warm and fuzzies. Read Full Review

King Thor #4 is Jason Aaron's love letter not just to Thor, but to comics in general. It perfectly distillates and encapsulates both the all-seriousness present in a whole bunch of comics and the utter silliness and wackiness present at the core of the medium. Read Full Review

The moments where Aaron explores he and his collaborators’ parts as part of a long and grand tradition of Thor stories that will move ever forward, with his own offering always there for readers to return to when it calls to them, will certainly be the most powerful ones for longtime readers, and I can’t pretend that concept at times didn’t make my eyes start to sting. As Aaron says of himself in his final letter to readers, it’s hard to let go, and that theme runs heavily throughout King Thor #4 - the path to becoming the kind of person who recognizes when it’s time to move on. Regardless of its foibles, it’s hard not to appreciate the passion Aaron poured into it as a farewell to the last seven years. Read Full Review

Prelude:
This is it. The final issue of King Thor and the final issue of Jason Aaron's Thor epic. Let's see how Aaron and Ribic go on this issue.

The Good:
A wonderful end to Thor the All-Father. Really like what Aaron did with this alt future.

I loved the library scenes. One especially made me tear up.

The many reborn Thors was great to see and a wonderful payoff that started all the way back in God of Thunder.

The art is spectacular here. Props to everyone involved.

The Bad:
Nothing.

Conclusion:
A godlike end to Aaron's entire Thor epic. Man, this issue just makes you tear up. Truly the end of an era in Thor history.

A perfect ending for the best run at Marvel in the 2010s. Reading it felt a bit like the end of LOTR, with multiple endings (all of them good !!!) and some new ideas thrown in for good measure. Clearly, Aaron's creative well was far from dry. Kudos to you, Jason, the greatest Thor fan !!! And good luck to Donny Cates and Nick Klein, they have a heavy task ahead for them, coming after that...

A perfect capstone to Aaron’s Thor run! It beautifully brings to a close the journey that began all those years ago with God of Thunder while at the same time brilliantly leaving things open for Cates to take off with Thor. Was it a little muddled in places? Sure but with Aaron you know what you’re getting into and the highs from this book far outweigh the lows.

Read it. Words can’t describe how much I loved this. Beautiful

Jason Aaron almost redeemed himself with this issue alone! One of the best I've read from Thor in ages! A perfect 10!

Thank you Jason Aaron.

This was great. If I didn't know that the next creative team will undoubtedly kick ass, I'd be more upset about this run ending. But as it is, I'm contented. This was a crazy run, and definitely defines Thor for me. Jason Aaron got me into the character in a way that previous writers couldn't, and now he's one of my favorites. So, this run will always be important to me. It's crazy to see it end.

Really enjoyed this issue. Aaron ends his run while reminding us there are more great Thor stories ahead of us then behind.

this in my opinion was Jason Aaron's best work on Thor.

It's a perfect capstone for Jason Aaron's Thor tenure -- even when it digresses into oddities like Cop Thor. Though it wanders, it comes home to the heart in the end. You cannot listen to the sound of Aaron's thunder and doubt his love for Thor.

I would read a million issues of God Cop tbh.

" Heh. Now do you see ? Gorr was right-- But Thor is Thor ! "
- LOKI

Nice send off to a great, GREAT run. Could it have been better? Sure, but whatever. One of the greatest runs ever.

A lot different than what I was expecting. It was a decent send off with some really good art. I thought it was solid just could have been a little more.

I'd be lying if I said that this is everything that I hoped it would be. I like a number of choices made that Jason Aaron made including Loki's fate, Thor's character development, the reminder to enjoy the many Thor stories, and the symbolic use of thunder in the final pages. What I didn't like was the lack of an actual climax. Conceptually, yes, there is a climax, but there isn't really much to be had mechanically: the day is won by... accepting one's shortcomings? I also thought the random incarnations of Thor (as a cop, a planet, an ape) were jarring and weird, all they really did was mess up the pacing for me. I also thought that things were headed in a different direction for the God Butcher in the previous issue, that he was destined to become everything he despises: a god. Instead Aaron took it in a complete 180, which is interesting in itself but was not built up to nor earned at all.

Overall, it is a pretty good but imperfect ending, which actually fits precisely with the theme of the book, so that's interesting. more

If you can't blind them with your brilliance baffle them with bullshit! - The comic book issue.

It's not as bad as the last one was... but it's very much a collection of pretty pictures and sentences which look cool / sound profound as long you don't think about them. The second you do however the whole thing falls apart. It wants to have its cake and eat it too like it acknowledges the power and necessity of stories (and with them gods) in one sentence, but restates that Gorr was right in the next... ie. the world would be better without gods, even the concept of them (but they're also stories, sooooo?!).

That's pretty much how all of Aaron's run* was to be honest so it's kinda fitting to get a final issue distilling the whole thing.



* Which for a great epic about gods and men never actually touched upon religion for some strange reason. AND I am an atheist (post-modern Neo-pagan; ie. I believe in people, and their beliefs are an important part of them), but such idiotic nonsensical presentation of our (un-)beliefs is downright insulting. more