Stop Talking Down to Your Audience
This issue could have been good. A team up of Cobra and Mr. Hyde is definitely something that could have given Thor a run for his money; and it started out good. But then, it just slipped down into shoddy writing. Hyde has a device that when aimed at someone projects an image of that person moving backward through time. This stupid and convenient plot device allows them to trace Thor back to the office of Don Blake, where things get really stupid.
Once they capture Blake, he convinces Hyde to stamp his cane against the floor. Apparently Thor doesn't actually need to hold the cane anymore - anyone can hold it and tap it against the floor to make Blake into Thor. Blake of course becomes Thor, but luckily it was unseen by either Cobra or Hyde. Nor was the transformation witnessed by Jane Foster, who also happened to be in the room - though why not, we never know.
Then, of course the cane becomes Mjolnir, which is too heavy for Hyde to hold, but even though he's the one holding it, he still somehow doesn't see it turn into a big heavy hammer in his own hands, and when it flies back to Thor's hand, he reaches the daft conclusion that he, "must have dropped it out of the window".
Thor then tells everyone (including Jane) that Don Blake outsmarted everyone, and ran out the door to call the police while nobody was looking, and at the same time he, Thor, came in through the open door.
It goes on, and on... other inanities include the way the villains get Thor's hammer - once by pulling it with a beam that affects the metal (did you know it was metal?) and once with a convenient grabbing machine... but I'll spare you the details, I justst want to say, Stan Lee,... WTF?
To top it off, readers are promised a double sized story on page one, but when you get to the end, it's standard length with a cliffhanger saying, continued next issue... "we told you it was double sized". Poor kids must have felt ripped off.
The only reason this issue gets two whole stars is the text story, Marauder, is actually a pretty good war story - which is a nice change, and because there's a halfway decent Tales of Asgard installment at the end. Otherwise, it's just rubbish.