A comiXologist recommends:
Thors #1

by: Jonah Chuang

My pick for this week is Thors #1, a part of Marvel’s Secret Wars crossover. I picked this book up for two reasons. The first is its wow-factor: I couldn’t resist seeing images of an army of Thors (Ultimate, Rune, All-Father, Frog) and other-Marvel-characters-as-Thor (Beta Ray Bill, Storm, Groot) act as God Doom’s police force throughout Battleworld, each wielding their own magical hammer and flying through the skies together. The second reason is because the Thor Corps seems to be the one element that appears in almost every Battleworld title there is, but you never really get a sense of what they’re all about. Usually they’re just Doom’s henchmen and they do whatever he commands, but, come on, they’re Thors, so you know there has to be much more going on behind the scenes. This book gives us that peek behind the curtain.

Turns out the Thors are very much like the cops of Battleworld. They have partners, they report to superiors, solve mysteries, bicker with co-workers, worry about performance and promotions/demotions, and drink at Thor bars together. They have thoughts, interests, goals and personalities, despite how they appear in the other Battleworld titles.

This particular story revolves around the discovery of a serial killer who is going around the different Battleworld realms and killing the same woman. Spoiler alert: it’s Jane Foster, and it seems like the only one who knows anything is a crazy, homeless alternate version of Loki. Leave it to Jason Aaron to weave such familiar elements into a totally different type of story, right? Thors is part police procedural (complete with Thor Frog/Throg as the forensics guy) and part hard-boiled detective mystery.

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Jonah Chuang is a Production Coordinator Assistant at Comixology. He saw Tomorrowland last week and really enjoyed it.