Aaron and Ewing (s) and Ewing (w) and Garbett and Bianchi (a) and Woodard and Dall'Alpi (c) and Sabino (l)
Thor and Loki know about their sister and adoptive sister, respectively, and know she's been in the Tenth Realm, the Realm of Heven where Asgard is not much liked, but know little else. Still, it's a fair amount to go on and the pair travel to Heven to meet this sister and promptly get into a fight. While Thor mows down the forces of Heven, Loki sneaks away and ambushes the queen of Heven only to strike a mutually beneficial deal with her. Angela shows up as Thor tires of fighting the Angels, who are eager to strike at Midgard now that their gates have opened again.
Like the last issue, this one struggles with keeping up with the solicits. It's not a bad issue in terms of helping us to understand Heven and the Angels. In fact, that's what I'd say makes this one worth reading. The Thor-Loki relationship isn't bad here but it's also not a particular stand-out and most readers interested in this sort of thing probably know it all already. However, Heven is kind of a new area for most readers and it certainly makes sense for Ewing to highlight it here. He does a good job giving us a sense of these Angels but the driving plot of the story, the meeting between siblings, is somewhat dragged out considering everyone knows it's going to happen and there's no sense of suspense about it thanks to all of the pre-release information everyone got. Still, Ewing makes it readable and builds a tone and a background for us and that's certainly commendable and he can hardly be faulted for the swell of information prior to the book's release.
Total Score: 4/5
(sorry for the late review today and the fact there's just the one but I warned you yesterday, slow week this week and this felt like the one worth bumping to Wednesday...in theory)
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