“There must always be a Thor.” Towards the end of Original Sin, white Nick Fury whispered a secret into Thor’s ear, which caused him to drop Mjolnir on the moon. Goddess of Thunder opens with the fallout of a Thor who no longer holds the power of Thor. I haven’t come across Roxxon Corporation as a direct antagonist much in the Marvel Comic Universe, so I’m not sure if Thor and Roxxon have a special relationship, or if this is something new for a new, Midgard-born […]
I Swoop in Like an Ethically Diverse Knight
Joe Kelly’s Deadpool isn’t my favorite Deadpool. He comes after Duggan and Posnehr’s Deadpool and after Ryan Reynold’s Deadpool, but any Deadpool is pretty great. Especially when he’s making Spider-Man nuts with his bromance. Deadpool and Spider-Man are just hanging around. The Merc with the Mouth is mouthing off and Spidey wishes he would just shut up. Naturally Deadpool got Spider-Man into some kind of mess, because no one goes anywhere willingly with Wade Wilson. So now they are hanging upside down and being threatened […]
Even Fictional Cancer Can F*ck Right Off
It’s almost like this volume was written just for Cannonball Read. Dr. Jane Foster, The Mighty Thor, has breast cancer which has metastasized to her liver. When she picks up Mjolnir, she is the healthy and strong Mighty Thor. When she sets it down, she is the dying Jane Foster. Becoming Thor eradicates the poisons that kill the cancer, but not the cancer that is killing her. Regardless, she picks up the hammer when she is needed, because Fu*k Cancer. The Dark Elves are warring […]
Come Home
Jessica Jones is back as the hard drinking, self-loathing private investigator. She is much more together than she was at the beginning of Volume 1, but get a couple of drinks in her and she will fuck inappropriate people. Jessica heads to a small town to investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl who is either a mutant, lied about being a mutant, or had rumors spread about her that she is a mutant. In this small town, mutants are the hated group du jour. […]