Ok, blame the Goldilocks or not a good place to be Thor's pal
The Story - strayed in time and space, our beloved heroes find themselves in quite a difficult situation: Thor is facing Amora (Enchantress), Iron Man is being dismantled by Fafnir (a mythological dragon) and Steve Rogers, after finishing off the remaining pack of Blue Elves is haunted by a mysterious healer/look-a-like Wanda Maximoff. Not knowing exactly where they are, we get a little clue that this place is what´s left of the nine realms, ruled by Hella, just because Thor put Asgard in Earth.
The cover - not a good one, ´cause captured a scene from the last issue.
The writting - it felt a little boring in the beggining, with the Thor/Amora thing, Steve/The Empathic Healer Elf, and I think the best part of the initial story was Tony surrounded by Trolls and captured; then, when they´d mixed the three stories in the same pages, causing a little vertigo, it started to get interesting and then, Hella shows up!!! Ok, she´s a secondary character that appears once on a while, a powerful foe but why put her a villain in this story is beyond my comprehension, I just didn´t like it. She was just fine in Hell a few months back (in the Siege issue of New Mutants) and now it feels that, like the Vampires, it´s all going to be about Hell: Thor has gone to it, Logan is going to, now who else? It would be better just to name a saga like "Trip to Hell", because that´s how I´m feeling after reading this issue. And I hope that they explain more about what´s going on in the next issue, ´cause I´m lost.
The art - amazingly, even Alan Davis' art in this issue kinda let me down: two splashes (not good ones), and the fight between Thor and Enchantress' minions felt a little off, as in the end, when Thor strikes his hammer: I didn´t get it, was it to scare Hella or to call his brothers in arms? Because if it was the second choice, why didn´t he do it in the first place? To me, just like the writting, the art was slowly progressing to a state of "good" and "decent", and the Steve Rogers and Iron Man's scenes were the best; but, if it wasn´t for Alan Davis' art I wouldn´t buy issue # 3 and following.
Overall it was a disapointing issue!!!
3 out 5
The cover - not a good one, ´cause captured a scene from the last issue.
The writting - it felt a little boring in the beggining, with the Thor/Amora thing, Steve/The Empathic Healer Elf, and I think the best part of the initial story was Tony surrounded by Trolls and captured; then, when they´d mixed the three stories in the same pages, causing a little vertigo, it started to get interesting and then, Hella shows up!!! Ok, she´s a secondary character that appears once on a while, a powerful foe but why put her a villain in this story is beyond my comprehension, I just didn´t like it. She was just fine in Hell a few months back (in the Siege issue of New Mutants) and now it feels that, like the Vampires, it´s all going to be about Hell: Thor has gone to it, Logan is going to, now who else? It would be better just to name a saga like "Trip to Hell", because that´s how I´m feeling after reading this issue. And I hope that they explain more about what´s going on in the next issue, ´cause I´m lost.
The art - amazingly, even Alan Davis' art in this issue kinda let me down: two splashes (not good ones), and the fight between Thor and Enchantress' minions felt a little off, as in the end, when Thor strikes his hammer: I didn´t get it, was it to scare Hella or to call his brothers in arms? Because if it was the second choice, why didn´t he do it in the first place? To me, just like the writting, the art was slowly progressing to a state of "good" and "decent", and the Steve Rogers and Iron Man's scenes were the best; but, if it wasn´t for Alan Davis' art I wouldn´t buy issue # 3 and following.
Overall it was a disapointing issue!!!
3 out 5