King Thor faces his final enemy, Gorr who has created the
All-Black, the Necroverse; Thor hurls himself at the black hole that is Gorr
but he is hurled back. Loki, eyeless and with one arm attacks Gorr with Odin’s
sword; he is seized but he tells Gorr all he needs is a word. Meanwhile, as
Thor drifts in space he sees his entire life as a failed attempt to be worthy
but Loki has been telling Gorr the story of every life Thor has ever saved and
both Thor and Gorr end up drifting in space, while Loki heads into the heart of
the sun with one last story to tell….
In Omnipotence City in the present day, the Lord Librarian
scolds Shadrak for knocking a number of books off the shelf. They are the Thor
section of the Library, telling the stories of Thor, past present and future.
Shadrak flips though the volumes and sees the myriad tales of Thor: as an
officer of the Universal God Police, as a sentient Thunder World companion of
Daimon Hellstrom, as an amnesiac ape-man and lover of a blue giantess, as a
number of other heroes and avengers. Other stories of the present day show
Balder as the King of the Norns, Jane Foster as Valkyrie, Sif as the Guardian
of Bifrost, and Thor as the All-Father in Asgard. Long may he reign. And
Shadrak decides to continue reading the adventures of Thor another day as there
will always be more Thor stories….
In the far future, the Gods of Indegarr are caring for the now-mind-broken
Gorr. Thor and the Goddesses of Thunder are living on Midgard but Thor is
melancholy: Loki sacrificed himself to reignite the sun but entropy is
spreading so Thor leaves Mjolnir to his granddaughters and says goodbye,
sailing off on his ship to face the dark with the Spirit of Thunder. And on
Midgard, a father tells his sons of the glory of Thor….