Goodreads review: Collected Thor classic (Essential Thor Vol 2)

[milleniumgypsy]

Essential Thor Volume 2 by Stan Lee

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


My last reaction for this set of comics:

Wow Thor. Just... wow. lol
Thor/Jane and Thor/Sif spoilers ahead.
So the last comic in this set marked the end of Jane Foster in the set. I don't know if she'll come back, but she looks pretty done. I'm not bothered by this, but I had to laugh at what happened. Odin has continued to be Odin about the Jane/Thor relationship, which means he's been against it, until the end of this book. He finally softened his position to allow Thor and Jane to be together by bringing Jane to Asgard to make her immortal. Which didn't go over so well because Original Jane is a flailing damsel in distress and completely freaked out and failed Odin's test. The test was sort of insane as an introduction to being immortal, but it's Odin and that's how he rolls. Jane is still ridiculous though regardless.
Since she failed Odin tossed her back here and wiped her memory and now she's introduced to a dreamy new doctor she can be a nurse for.
Then he sent his brooding son off to fight a monster and Thor was like "Sigh. Maybe it will kill me." but then Sif showed up during the fight and renewed his passion for life, they fought the monster, and they walked off into the sunset together. LOL ROMEO THOR, I'M GLAD YOU CAN SO EASILY FORGET THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE ROSALINE JANE THE SECOND YOU CLAP YOUR EYES ON JULIET SIF. e_e

Honestly I was just amused. It was so silly.
My reaction to Jane:


Things I was excited about in this (besides anything with Loki in general):
The introduction of the Warriors Three (Fandral, Hogun, and Volstagg), the Infinity Stones, the introduction of Hela (Loki's bb!) and the Destroyer armor.

I was so happy during the first part of the book because Loki was prominently featured. At about the halfway point though Odin threw Loki into the Void. He appeared a couple of times after this but is still not back at the end of this book. He was still in the Tales of Asgard comics... until Odin threw Loki into suspended animation forever for things he hadn't done yet (obviously not for forever actually, since these comics are from the past). He was still not back in these by the end of this book.
Loki is my favorite character. This does not please me.

The colonizer aliens were odd, though I could see how they might have influenced the story for the Avengers movie. I thought the Hercules storyline was interesting, though after a while I really wanted to get back to my Norse gods, which we did.

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Also! I finally made a reading Loki icon. I want to make one from stuff from the movie instead of just the promo stuff, but for now this will have to do. I swear every time I do a book post, or comment about books, I'd be thinking 'BUT THERE'S ALL THE STUFF WITH LOKI READING WHILE IMPRISONED WHY DO I NOT HAVE AN ICON OF THIS' but now I have fixed it. lol