This Thread will be mad long, but fuck it.
I really want to talk about this Thor run by @jasonaaron because it's a masterpiece of comicbooks.
If you like read a lot and love comics, this thread if for you.

I really like how Aaron begins with an introduction to our hero in his natural habitat. Fighting, drinking, and having general merrymaking with whoever it was that called him down. But this is not the Thor that we have known for the many years prior, no, this is young Thor.

-One who does not yet have Mjolnir, one who is not yet worthy.
Another thing I really like is how Aaron give a good, and excellent introduction of Thor in this run, for those who do not know who Thor is going into this series.

This Thor run dropped you into the aftermath of a fight, with Thor recounting what had transpired, in a way that only someone as arrogant and carefree as young Thor could have. Love they way Aaron give an arrogant and carefree emotions to this young Thor.

But we do not remain with our young friend for long, as Aaron and Ribic must set up the rest of our story. Thus, we finally see present Thor (circa 2012): older, wiser, yet no less temperamental or any less of a drinker. The thing that hooked me was how Aaron wrote the older Thor

Just from this one introduction that Aaron give us, with him flying across the universe to save a dying planet, we get a new characterization of Thor, without ever having to followhis growth from that opening section. By the way, Esad Ribić art just fits perfect with this story.

That doesn’t mean we don’t see young Thor grow, which will come in subsequent issues. That is one of the strongest things of this run. Aaron wrote to good young Thor development, we can see that in the upcoming issues.

how does he survive until the end of time, alone, beaten, missing an arm and looking exactly like his father, Odin. This is the first question I had while I was reading this series. By setting up the three time periods in the first issue.

-we can get acclimated to the type of story this will be and, throughout the arc, Aaron uses in an excellent way this to undermine present day Thor’s proclamations and tease out what had happened when Thor first encountered the God Butcher.

Its a grand entrance to a grand story and I dont really think it would’ve been possible how perfect looks without Esad Ribic’s art and Iva Svorcina’s coloring. Ribic style is not photorealistic like Alex Ross but it is highly detailed, giving each person a high degree of realism.

There is a grandiosity to his designs, especially his ability to draw worlds and structures. Other gods tower over Thor and the scale of their sizes is not lost. Whenever he draws a splash page, like the one at the end of this arc. it's looks like a painting from centuries ago.

Now let's talk about the Godbomb and What the Gods Have Wrought.
The ‘Godbomb’ arc opens on a one-shot drawn by Butch Guice detailing Gorr’s backstory. This starts the trend of arcs broken up by one-shots that act as narrative bridges, filling in story beats for us. Goated arc.

The story t’s placed at the perfect moment and gives us an understanding of our main antagonist beyond his own words. It gives us an explanation for what motivates him and why he so vehemently hates gods. Aaron wrote Gorr story in a way we can undertand his motivations.

Guice does a fantastic job of capturing the desperation and rage that fills Gorr as he watches his family slowly die and his own people ostracize him for daring to ask why it is that the gods they hold is such high esteem cannot and do not help any of those who pray to them.

I love how this second arc ‘Godbomb’ feels more like act 2, with Gorr’s backstory acting as an intermission, instead of another chapter in the continuing adventures of Thor. It picks up essentially where the previous arc left us, with the reveal of Gorr’s slave planet.

We also get a shift in the way the stories are narrated, one which will continue throughout most of the rest of Aaron’s arcs. No longer is each Thor narrating their own stories (or Gorr narrating his) now, it is Aaron narrating the story.

setting the stage and turning this into the grand epic it is set up to be. Reading the fight scenes, with Aaron’s narration overtop. We are blessed because Aaron is a good writter and this Thor run is one of his best project, at leat in my opinion.

Again, Ribic art is grand, capturing the immensity of the arc. There isn’t much change in his style between the first and second arcs but the action quota is upped. Gorr is building a bomb, a monumentally large one that threatens to kill every god, throughout all time. Goated art

there is a bigger question that is asked by this arc beyond just how will they stop Gorr: Aaron, no longer asking about what makes each Thor worthy, instead has Thor the Avenger ask, how right is Gorr? What makes a god worthy of being a god?

Gorr believes that no one is worthy, that there is something irredeemable in being a god, while Thor sees it as something to struggle for. Worthiness is something earned through constant action and that is something Thor the All-Father knows all too well.

With the end of this arc, we are half-way thorough the series and with it, we can see another, third character arc appear in the background: Gorr. His is one of tragedy, a tragedy of his own making, true, but sad none-the-less.

Now let's talk about my favorite arc on this run.
Enter Malaketh, ‘The Accursed’ : Here is the arc that I consider to be the true start to Aaron’s run, plot wise. Thematically, Gorr’s actions echo throughout the Odison’s character.

changing him and stripping him of much of the bravado that tends to characterize the younger him. However, Gorr only affects Thor the All-Father while the release of Malaketh from his icy, snake infested, giant, poisonous/venomous spider-guarded prison continues to be the leading

Gorr is a very strong antagonist and character, the events of his arc even though much of it fades from “present day” Thor’s memory reverberates throughout Aaron’s run. It shapes him and speaks to his greatest fears. It also begins Aaron’s trend of foreshadowing events.

Despite ,that Gorr is a strong antagonist, for me Malaketh is Jason Aaron’s focus villain and I could not have thought of a better villain. This arc is all about setting up Malaketh as a viable and in your face threat, slippery as a snake and more conniving than even Loki.

Malaketh sets up plans within plans, always playing a dangerous game of chess with Thor and his compatriots.

Going into the arc, it feels as if this will merely be a chase and one that Thor should be able to handle readily, yet each passing issue shows Thor fail more and more, and feel more and more vulnerable. He cannot do the one thing which he believes makes him worthy.

saving people, or Dark elves as the case may be. He is forced to work with a group of elves, trolls, dwarves, and giants who cannot get along, constantly getting in each other’s way to let Malaketh escape.

His frustration is palpable, which is a testament to Jason Aaron and Ron Garney’s plotting. Garney’s art gives this arc a cleaner feel than that of Ribic’s, which probably has a lot to do with his less ink-heavy, less detailed style and Svorcina’s choice of color palate.

It provides us with a contrast of villains, one which uses the dark and the shadows to hide their deeds and keep them secret from the wider world, while the other uses the light to blind others, using it as a distraction from the knives they have hidden behind their back.

Gorr was physically faster and more powerful than Thor while Malaketh is mentally quicker, stronger, and so much more devious than anything Thor can imagine. He doesn’t need to do much himself, instead relying on others to do his dirty work, even Thor’s allies.

Most writers would use Loki this way but by using Malaketh, this can go beyond just a vendetta against Thor as the two of them are intrinsically tied together, with so much history. It's good for me that Aaron used Malaketh intead of Loki for this arc.

By the end of this arc, Malaketh has successfully killed thousands of Dark Elves and gotten himself crowned king of Svartleheim, Thor has had an infuriating (in the best of ways) chase with a band of supporting characters (called the League of Realms)

have been criminally underutilized in the current Thor book, and we finally have a true tour of the nine-realms, complete with a map at the end of every issue.

This feels like Aaron trying to get new readers acquainted with, and old reader re-acquainted with, the established Thor canon as well as any changes that have happened between now and the previous arc and he does an admirable job of that.

The arc does feel like it gets bogged down in Malaketh’s constant taunting and it feels like we could have had one less of those scenes and gotten more of the League of Realms bonding but without those scenes, that final twist would not have been as painful as it was.

All of Thor’s work, all his plotting and scheming was for naught and, to add insult to injury, only made it easier for Malaketh to gain his throne. By positioning this after Gorr’s arc, we can see how the events of that affect Thor’s acceptance of each new turn.

If he cannot help these people, what good is he? This thought angers him and forces him to fight even harder. What kind of worthy god cannot even stop one clear villain? The League of Realms is no more and Malaketh is safe, starting a plot that would reverberate for years to come

With this I finish the Gorr and Malekith arc. Two well written fantastic arc with an amazing art, and color. This Two arcs of Jason Aaron Thor run are a masterpiece of comics books. These arc are 10/10 for sure. I will do another thread soon of the rest of this run. Final score: