This lies solidly in third among the Sandman Universe titles and that says something about how lucky we are to have this universe around and actually good in 2019.

It was dope and completely worthy of the name Excalibur.

Fantastic. I'd say this book follows Doom characteristically more than Fantastic Four has. I'm Fantastic Four he kind of feels like he just flipped flopped from wanting to be a hero to going immediately back to his old self. This feels more right.

Besides a few minor parts, Doctor Doom 1 was fantastically written from almost start to finish. Larroca’s art was by far the best part of this issue by the way. Cantwell delivers a very interesting plot and my only complaint is that Doom seemed weak and out of character when he surrendered immediately to the UN

Loved it! The writing by Donny Cates was as on point as always and Geoff Shaw's pencils were fantastic.

I have been absolutely loving this book which is odd because I hated the previous series (Mighty Captain Marvel) by the same writer. Stohl does a great job of humanizing Carol and making me identify with her more as a person (especially because I'm a New Englander myself), the New England accent is dead on which is a plus for me and I love the supporting characters. The art by Carlos Pacheco (the here and now) and Marguerite Savage (flashbacks) is fantastic along with the colors from Marcio Menyz, and what great Marvel book would be complete without letters from the great Clayton Cowles. This book does a great job of redeeming Carol after the events of Civil War II and I would like to see this creative team continue on after this mini is finished up. Highly recommend. more

Welcome to the Oblivion Bar where the first round is on me and the pretzels are free! Be warned: like the pickled eggs at the bar, this issue is going to get SPOILED rotten.

Jason Aaron and Thor go together like peanut butter and fluff, like hands and grenades, like integrals and area under the curve, like balloons and animals, or Walt Disney World and FUN!!! Point is: we don’t skip a beat with Fresh Start. Aaron’s starts right where we left off. It’s fun, exciting, and humorous too. So let’s have at thee, and figure out what went down in this issue of Thor.

The story kicks off with Thor (Odinson) running through Thailand with the Warlock Eye. Turns out after the Mangog came through and destroyed Asgard, the explosion sent all of Odin’s artifacts throughout the realms. Thor tracked down the eye but he also found a race of cannibals fun by the Unstoppable Juggernaut. Thor tries his best to stop him but Juggernaut happens to be standing in the heart of the Cyttorak’s temple, which makes him the strongest he’s ever been.

Thor gets Screwbeard to send his take on a new hammer to Thor, since Mjoliner is lost in the sun. The hammers rain from the sky and keep breaking on Juggernaut so Thor asks Screwbeard to send them all. Eventually, it works after basically crushing them all in the process and Thor makes it back to tell the dwarves that they need to make more hammers. The problem is that they need uru metal and they happen to be all out. After a pit stop to talk to a blind Heimdall whose piecing together the Rainbow Bridge, Thor takes off to Midgard where the Asgardians have relocated after the Magog..... which is the Bronx.

Thor visits with Jane Foster, whose still fighting cancer but moving about, Volstagg whose still recovering from the Mangog, and his mother whose desperately seeking her other son Loki. Thor doesn’t understand why she cares so much for him even after he literally stabbed her in the back. He explains that if he sees his brother again that he will probably kill him. She basically pleads with him and Thor leaves in frustration for the Southern Ocean to get the Sun Stone back from Namor.

Turns out Namor didn’t have it. However, it was in the belly of a shark. So, Toothgnasher( Thor’s goat), Thori (Thor’s Hel Hound), and Thor take down Namor, find the shark and rip the stone out of his belly. The three of them take the stone back to Thor’s Tugboat in the Newark Harbor only to find Loki waiting for him. Loki makes a deal with Thor telling him that he can use him to get to the other realms because Loki has the ability to teleport to any realm he wishes, especially since the Rainbow Bridge is still not working. However, Loki wants something in return but the trickster won’t tell him what it is he wants.

Thor wants access to the other realms because Malekith the King of the Dark Elves is going from realm to realm trying to conquer them and wage war on Asgard. Thor agrees as Loki tries to teleport him away but Thor quickly grabs Loki and drags him, his Tugboat, Toothgnasher, and Thori with him to Niffleheim where Balder and the King of Hel is waiting.

We then fast forward to the future with Grandfather Thor and his three Thunder Goddesses. They are trying to redirect the last space shark before it flies to Midgard and kills people. In the future, Midgard was destroyed and barren. But then Thor came back and created man and woman from the Earth to repopulate it and named them Steve and Jane. We see that Jane is 275 years old and about to die. Thor is willing to give her more of his power so that she may live longer but she declines for death since she feels lonely and frail.

Jane asks Thor if their is an after life and he honestly tells her no. There is nothing after this life... yet she still decides to end hers. Thor leaves her to die in peace and looks upon Midgard repopulated in his image. Suddenly, Mjoliner arrives back after a journey through the cosmos to tell Thor that the universe is dying. And now Thor has to figure out how to not only save his New Midgard but also the entire universe before everything becomes extinct.

This is so well done. We get a battle with Juggernaut, a battle with Namor, Loki, dwarves, Odin, Jane Foster, future Thor literally playing God, space sharks, and the universe ending. Aaron laid out all the stops. Right out of the gate, we get craziness and nonstop action. We get Toothgnasher and Thori as well as the sly comic humor of Thor that even resembles the movies. Get excited people! Better yet; get out your mead, find the tallest dwarf, and wrestle the strongest troll you can because this is gonna be one Hel of a series. Aaron’s has hitched a ride on a flying goat straight to the top of my pull list. And to those who so ever distaste this issue shall bathe in the fires of Surtur’s flatulent after Taco Tuesday.

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Really wanted to like this one. Old marvel fan, but don't read the current comics. Hulk 2.0/new characters not my cup of tea.

This issue is really awesome I have not been a fan of the Mark Waid run so far. The Kang arc was okay but the Mike Del Mundo art really hurt it for me with the exception of the Thor one-shot Secret Empire tie in I liked that one and I consider the issue before this current one to be god-awful. But this issue is exactly how a superhero comics should be written it was fantastic and the art by Jesus Saiz was nothing short of incredible. more