Thor is dead,
slain by Loki who stands over his body and apologizes. Utgard-Loki asks him why
and Loki postpones an answer. In anger, Skurge brings down his Bloodaxe and destroys
the Black Bridge, falling into the depths. But the Black Bridge was the other
side of the Rainbow Bridge which also shatters and falls, Thor’s body vanishing
with it….
And now Asgard
is cut off from Midgard and Thor has now vanished from the memories of those on
Earth, his place taken in history by Beta Ray Bill. And the Asgardians mourn
their hero….
Thor finds
himself in Vidblainn, the Land of Lost Souls, a white space full of rocks and
harmless monsters. It rains and he calls out, wanting to know why he is there.
For an answer the three gods of the place, Har, Jafnhar, and Thridi, who ask
what he would know. Thor asks after his father Odin and receives a pleasing
answer; he asks after his son Magni and receives a dark and ominous answer; he
asks for himself and is told he must sacrifice himself to himself and follow a
path not yet taken. And then Thor encounters Don Blake, blinded by snake venom.
Thor informs him that he (Blake) is now the God of Lies, calling Blake Thor’s
sin. Blake, upset that Thor considers him of so little value, draws Helnir, the
Devil’s Hammer, and beats Thor with it. Blake calls Thor mad for thinking he
could have learned humanity, blinding then continuing to beat him. Thor
snatches the hammer away and points out that now that they are both gods, there
is a human soul missing so he decides to sacrifice himself to himself and
smashes the hammer to the ground. There is an explosion of thunder, Blake
morphs into a serpent and all goes dark….
Thor awakens in
an alley, unsure of his identity. A boy calling himself Lukki (pronounced “Lucky”),
who has found him, presents him with a wallet and an apartment key, asking his
name. The battered former god responds that his name is Sigurd Jarlson and he
is just a man….
Story continues in THOR (2025) #1.