Comic Browser: #1 - The God Butcher, Part One of Five: A World Without Gods #2 - The God Butcher, Part Two of Five: Blood in the Clouds #3 - The God Butcher, Part Three of Five: The Hall of the Lost #4 - The God Butcher, Part Four of Five: The Last God in Asgard #5 - The God Butcher, Part Five of Five: Dream of a Godless Age #6 - What the Gods Have Wrought #7 - GodBomb, Part One: Where Gods Go to Die #8 - Godbomb, Part Two of Five: God in Chains #9 - Godbomb, Part Three of Five: Thunder in the Blood #10 - Godbomb, Part Four of Five: To the Last God #11 - Godbomb, Part Five of Five: The Last Prayer #12 - Once Upon a Time in Midgard #13 - The Accursed, Part One of Five: The Great Niffleheim Escape, or, The Svartalfheim Massacre #14 - The Accursed, Part Two of Five: The League of Realms #15 - The Accursed, Part Three of Five: Bury My Heart in Jotunheim #16 - The Accursed, Part Four of Five: I, Thor… Condemn Thee to Die #17 - The Accursed, Part Five of Five: The God who Saved the Elves #18 - Days of Wine and Dragons #19 - The Last Days of Midgard - Part One #20 - The Last Days of Midgard, Part Two of Five: All Worlds Must Die #21 - The Last Days of Midgard, Part Three of Five: God, Inc. #22 - The Last Days of Midgard, Part Four of Five: For Thor So Loved the World #23 - The Last Days of Midgard, Part Five of Five: Blood of the Earth #24 - The Last Days of Midgard, Epilogue: Adieu, Midgard, Adieu #25 - The 13th Son of a 13th Son
The story opens with a flashback to young Thor, still looking forward to the day when he is worthy enough to wield the mystic Uru hammer Mjolnir. Failing to lift it yet once more, he chooses to take the ax Jarnborn on his journeys….
893 A.D.: Thor leads a Viking ship on a voyage to plunder what is now Russia. As they cross the fog-shrouded sea they spy a cloaked figure through the mist, walking on the water. The figure also spies them and flies in their wake….
Three days later along the Neva River, Thor and the Vikings are facing the Slavs in battle. The natives summon their gods and a white winged horse arrives—splattered with the blood of its missing rider. The Thunder God mounts the winged steed and heads into the sky to investigate and passes another flying horse, back this time and bearing the headless corpse of its rider. The corpse-like Gorr the God Butcher suddenly appears alongside and slashes the head off of Thor’s mount. The Thunder God plummets and lands astride the black horse and whirls to face his enemy. They battle in the sky while Thor recalls his meeting with a murderous rogue Asgardian god who terrified him utterly. Gorr, veteran at killing gods, beats Thor mercilessly, taunting him and demanding to know what Thor is a deity of; the hero whispers "Thunder" and a lighting strike crashes down, hurling them both to the Earth….
In the present day, Thor slays the God Butcher’s Black Berserker after a battle lasting several hours. He swears to avenge the slaughtered gods of Indigarr, no matter how long it takes.
Meanwhile, in the past, Thor lay very still in a snowy crater….
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