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A review by unladylike
Thor, Volume 1: The Goddess of Thunder by Jason Aaron
3.0
It was the announcement of the new Thor, who is a woman, and the way that was handled by the series creators that prompted me to start reading all of the past couple years of Thor comics by Jason Aaron and Matt Fraction.
So much of the Aaron-penned series leading up to this is unnecessary for understanding the comic, but I'm glad I read it for the sake of familiarizing myself with and appreciating the characters.
Goddess of Thunder has some great lines that made me lol, and plenty of fantastic art. But it's such a *skinny* book, and not much happens, so it only gets 3 stars.
We get a drawn-out confrontation between Frost Giants, the evil minotaur CEO of Roxxon Energy, and Malekith, the dark elf sorcerer king. And we get Odin being the angry asshole that he is, after a period of reign by the All-Mother Freyja and a more democratic Congress of Worlds.
The best parts of these 5 short issues involved direct jabs at the current wave of anti-feminists. Labels such as "social justice warrior" and "feminist" - both of which are all about standing up against injustice and oppression - are used frequently as pejoratives, so Jason Aaron and Marvel had an opportunity to address that debate head-on, and thankfully they did it with grace and tact. Any time a famous comic moniker changes hands and is no longer the sole domain of a straight white cis male, lots of bigoted fanboys come out of the woodwork to shriek their ire. In Thor, those people are represented as Crusher Creel and Odin - two of the most thick-skulled, obnoxious men in the Marvel Universe.
We still don't know at the end of this volume who has taken on the mantle/helm/hammer, but we see a couple likely suspects crossed off in a process of elimination game. Thor actually shows us a hand-written list of people he thinks might be behind the mask, and it is much longer than the ones I would have thought of.
So yay for Thor: Goddess of Thunder, but boo for Marvel charging so much for such a small page count in their HC and TBPs.
So much of the Aaron-penned series leading up to this is unnecessary for understanding the comic, but I'm glad I read it for the sake of familiarizing myself with and appreciating the characters.
Goddess of Thunder has some great lines that made me lol, and plenty of fantastic art. But it's such a *skinny* book, and not much happens, so it only gets 3 stars.
We get a drawn-out confrontation between Frost Giants, the evil minotaur CEO of Roxxon Energy, and Malekith, the dark elf sorcerer king. And we get Odin being the angry asshole that he is, after a period of reign by the All-Mother Freyja and a more democratic Congress of Worlds.
The best parts of these 5 short issues involved direct jabs at the current wave of anti-feminists. Labels such as "social justice warrior" and "feminist" - both of which are all about standing up against injustice and oppression - are used frequently as pejoratives, so Jason Aaron and Marvel had an opportunity to address that debate head-on, and thankfully they did it with grace and tact. Any time a famous comic moniker changes hands and is no longer the sole domain of a straight white cis male, lots of bigoted fanboys come out of the woodwork to shriek their ire. In Thor, those people are represented as Crusher Creel and Odin - two of the most thick-skulled, obnoxious men in the Marvel Universe.
We still don't know at the end of this volume who has taken on the mantle/helm/hammer, but we see a couple likely suspects crossed off in a process of elimination game. Thor actually shows us a hand-written list of people he thinks might be behind the mask, and it is much longer than the ones I would have thought of.
So yay for Thor: Goddess of Thunder, but boo for Marvel charging so much for such a small page count in their HC and TBPs.