111. Thunderstrike #1 ... Marvel ...

This is yet another spin off series that came during the comics boom. For me personally, about the only main thing I like and can comment about this series is as follows: do you like to read that Shakespearean style of English as espoused by Thor and his Asgardian chaps? If not and you prefer a more straightforward English speaking dialogue, then at last, this is one Thor-like series for you

For you see, a while back, during one of Thor's time on Earth, he became entwined with a new mortal who is not the good Doctor. Then a series of stuff happened and they became separated and could, once more, life live as their own man

So in this series, our mortal was granted power of his own. If he chose to, he could continue his career to protect the mortals of Midgard (Earth) when Thor is not around. So should he or shouldn't he?

Obviously the answer is he would like to try. The only challenge is that he is now having to juggle hi new found abilities and limitations i.e. in the past, when merged with Thor, he is already experienced but with a new hammer and slightly different limits and abilities, he has to learn the hard way and this first issue is an exploration of that

The next good bit?

At least they tried to introduce an arch villain in the form of Blood Axe who is a conflicted individual himself. And in the trials of his career, Thunderstrike is going to be getting a lot of screen time with the police gang, but a special unit of BLUE

Finally, to round things up, we need to see a personal aspect of him and this is his mortal private life as a divorce whose ex- is already seeing someone. And he has a kid who lives with mommy not daddy but still loves him dearly

And there you have it, the necessary additional tension to make the character's personality supposedly have more depth ... if you can call that soap opera bit depth

The artwork didn't work for me and with a ho-hum story, I didn't bother with the remainder of the series

Ratings:3/10