2.61 (426) Original Sin 5.2 Thor & Loki Tenth Realm ... Marvel ...

We open this issue with hesitation and wonder if we are going to be disappointed and the first 5 pages didn't give us much assurance. But only those pages though which was a huge relief because after that, the story and artwork lift themselves up by several notches

Basically thanks to Loki, they managed to find themselves in the 10th realm where Thor demanded for his sister to be present never even wondering for a moment who she is and whether the people he met understood him. Oaf, right?

Then we see the lame bit of writing protruding here ... as we see a wasted scene of older Loki thinking himself cunning by watching from afar all that goes on ... why we say this is because at the end of the storyline that's all he did NO SPOILER ALERT

And then we get a glimpse of the movie hit of the past year Guardians of the Galaxy where Angela is now a member except ... it was a glimpse because she desserts them SPOILER ALERT in the middle of a battle simply because she felt something drawing her back to her home world and she goes without giving a fuck about her team mates and at this point we say what the fuck right?

Now we comes to the next stage of oaf-ism ... when Thor needs Loki he found that Loki has ... disappeared but that's only to be expected, right? Here we are talking about the younger Loki (yes there are 2 now in this series very confusing for those who never read a single issue of Thor in the past 10 years) ...

So battles galore by the GOTG, by Angela, by Thor against the Angels of Heven ... but the stunning display is by Loki when we are finally shown where he went off to ... once more Loki proves that he is a far more entertaining character than the Oaf

Ratings: 6/10 (better artwork too)

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