A review by octavia_cade
Thor: God of Thunder, Volume 1: The God Butcher by Jason Aaron

4.0

I just picked this up at total random from the comics shelf at my local library. I've never read any Thor before, and to be honest my expectations weren't high. From what little of him I've ever been exposed to, he's struck me as a total meathead (I was delighted to see that the librarian in this shared my opinion!) and so I was prepared for some vacuous punch-fest, albeit with hammers. Well, when I'm wrong I don't mind admitting it. This was fantastic. It was creepy and sad and the structure of the story was genuinely complex, but handled for the most part extremely well. There's something odd going on with Shadrak, though, because what he's the god of exactly seems to change - waterfalls one minute, then when faced with a fire it's something else. I don't trust him, is what I'm saying.

And apparently the library has the rest of the series - I've just checked - so I'm going back tomorrow to get them.