2.60 (425) Oringal Sin - Thor and Loki - 10th Realm - 5.1 ... Marvel

I have not read many a Marvel event series for a looooooong time simply because whenever it is collected together there are a fair number of issues and the purchase price is quite high. And thanks to their intention to deliberately tie in so many other regular titles, it makes the reading pleasure too expensive to indulge for me

So the only reason I even bought this is because the cover has Simone Bianchi on art and it promises interiors as well and ... well ... this is the FIRST time I am disappointed as apparently Bianchi is supported and covered by many other artists from inkers to colorists to even pencillers so the entire reading pleasure of this miniseries is disrupted

Next is the fact that it didn't take place in regular Thor continuity but shoved in between Original Sin miniseries from 5.1 to 5.5 - see what we mean by expensive?

And next is the usage of Angela - that character that generated more publicity than her own tales thanks to the dispute between Neil Gaiman and his original usage of that character in Image-verse ... anyway I am not sure what the big hoo-ha was ... they could have easily created a character with a different name and tweaked design a wee bit .. but I guess what they say is true ... there is no bad publicity hahaha

In this opening arc, we are given a glimpse that when the Watcher was murdered, someone procured one of his eyes and the information contained within went spilling out across the cosmos with many secrets suddenly revealed including one where Thor discovered that he as a sister

Naturally being the thick headed all muscle no brain oaf that Thor is, he went fleeing back to his mother's bosom disrupting meetings with disregard to demand the truth only to find out that ... all thought the child dead ... however such is the course of royalty and ruling politics that Thor was forbidden to interfere

Now as we said earlier he is an oaf did we not? So do you expect him to obey? Naturally no

And who should he seek assistance to reach this new tenth realm? Why Loki the most treacherous bastard ever ... silly never learn his lesson Thor

Ratings: 5/10