THE DISPATCHAfter the last issue of THOR where we saw the re-formation of the PET AVENGERS, Donny Cates jumps fans right back to a more serious ton with vigor and vengeance. Readers learn a quick, mild history of Mjolnir and get a taste/ name of the future wielder. Ultimately, THOR fans learn that last month's installment was merely to provoke some lighthearted feels while THOR #19 comes carrying the weight and devastation this so-called God of Hammers warrants. Read Full Review

Thor #19 teases a gripping new twist in Marvels Thor mythos and offers readers page after page of spectacular artwork. Read Full Review

The theft of Mjolnir sets Thor on a path that leads to nothing but more death, and it makes me want to read the rest of this story. Well done! Read Full Review

Donny Cates and Nic Klein kick off the "God Of Hammers" story with a strong first chapter in Thor #19. The way Thor acts throughout this chapter drove home the gravity of Mjolnir being stolen. And if the final few pages of Thor #19 are any indication of how things will go we are sure to be in store for an epic ride with the latest story arc of this series. Read Full Review

Another excellent start to a Donny Cates Thor story. And just like every other time, I'm gonna get my hopes up for this one. Read Full Review

Marvel Comics'THOR #19is a comic that exists to herald a coming doom. This creative team sets everything up for the God of Hammers to take the spotlight. Read Full Review

The kickoff to this new arc of Thor is mostly just an issue-long exposition dump, but Cates keeps the dialogue and backstory interesting enough that it doesn't feel like you're slogging your way through a setup. Read Full Review

Great set-up for this arc. I found it very on point, the Odin-Thor relationship was very well done, the mistery around everything that is happening in the Realms is really brutal. Nic Klein is still on his peak performance and Cates is back on main plot, and all that is why I am here!

Book getting track after a while.
Art is great.
What did you do, Mjolnir? What happened with you?

After the last 7 months, it's good to see the book getting back on track.

Finally a pretty good Thor book. I liked this one. It felt important and had the great Klein art.

Really enjoyed this one. Nearly as good as the """"filler"""".

I liked it. I liked more because of Klein's art. But I still like it.

This is paced a little slow and it wants to be more mythic than it is. The art's pretty dang epic, though, and if the script only does a little bit of character and plot development, it does it pretty well. This pushes the story forward just enough to keep me intrigued, and the visuals make a nice counterbalance to the slow pace.

Fantastic art from Nic Klein. The dialogue is minimal but effective. Thor looks and sounds like he should. A god not to fuck with on a mission.

I know that people will appreciate that the filler is over but I can't be satisfied just by that. Cates basically wasted half a year of storytelling for nothing and the comeback is not really that engaging. Also, enough with inserting Knull in every bit of MCU prehistory. He was a very OP, cringey character, no one cares about him, he's basically poor man's Batman Who Laughs (at least BWL had an interesting origin story). And I really don't like how Thor behaves when Cates writes him. He's raging for nothing, the hammer getting taken for him was done by Aaron too many times already, I'm tired of the bashing of Odin. Honestly, there's nothing original or interesting here. It's nice to see Klein back on art but Thor deserves better. I still have hopes for this book but so far this isn't very good. more

I'm assuming that the planet with dinosaurs on page two isn't Earth since it was smashed to rubble... Was that just some other planet that happened to also have dinosaurs? Every so often a weird detail like this arises and I feel like there's something I'm not understanding.

I'm glad that we caught up with Odin in the space coliseum. So the panel of Angela somehow screwing him to get him in that arena was more than a single one-off gag from issue #17, however it still doesn't amount to anything here. Thor and Odin depart and Angela isn't seen again. It seems that this was just an opportunity to showcase a cool giant-hand-space-coliseum and I fear that Cates is over-relying on random idea that look cool but don't have any meat. Really, why couldn't Thor and Odin have simply proceeded together from issue #17 to the dwarven forge? THey could still visit Throg in-between; the way it's published just added extra steps for the sake of extra steps.

Also, since I'm here, I have to mention that the letters column has been... Cringe inducing. A minority of the letters column includes actual letters; about two-thirds to three-quarters of it (I'm not exaggerating) consists of [whoever writes the letters section] pretending to be Huginn and Muninn in a way that is.... Let's say, not entertaining. I usually stick around to read letters sections, but this one is so awful that I'll have to start skipping it because it's actually dragging the book down.
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CrazyforRAMU - Apr 9, 2022

I agree 100% about the dopey ravens handling the lettercol.

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