Thor joins Detective Brady O’Neil and the police confronting
a huge robotic creature called Replicus which has just robbed a bank. Thor
recognizes it from a long time ago and fights the monster, smashing it open;
the police also have a trace on the source of the robot’s signal. Demitrius
Collins was present in case emergency services were needed; he mentions his
partner Jake Olson is at the Giants game with his fiancée. Thor is reminded and
dashes off, surprising everyone who didn’t know the God of Thunder was a
football fan. Thor crashes into the hideout of the robot’s controller, teen
hacker Seth Sykes, and leaves him with a warning. Thor then zips to the stadium
parking lot, changes into Jake, and arrives at his seat to meet Hannah Fairmont
and her daughter Amanda who didn’t think Jake would show up….
In Asgard, the Dark Gods reign. Perrikus taunts the captive
Odin but when Tokkots returns to inform him that Thor is alive and on Earth, he
grabs his weapon and orders Adva to open the Continuum Gateway for him….
After dinner, Jake parts with Hannah and Mandy, pleading
work as an excuse. Once they have gone off in a taxi, Jake dashes into an alley
and transforms back into Thor and spins his hammer to take him to the land of
the Trolls. There he meets the imprisoned Orikal and asks him what happened to
Asgard. Orikal responds that he is prevented from revealing the truth as his
master (Troll King Geirrodur) is absent. But the mysterious Marnot appears,
having decided that the time was right to tell Thor what he wants to know. So.
Many centuries ago, Odin had sent out scouts to explore the universe. One of
them, Lonkarr, returned to tell Odin of the Dark Gods who inhabited a city
called Narcisson. While there, he was attacked by a woman warrior called
Tserron; after a lengthy battle, Lonkarr killed her but her husband Perrikus
declared war on Lonkarr’s people, allowing him to escape so the Dark Gods could
find where he came from. A brutal war ensued in which it appeared the Asgardians
would be defeated but the boy Thor tossed a broken spear to the wounded Odin
who rallied and led his army to defeat the Dark Gods. They were banished to a
far corner of the universe while Perrikus was locked up in a hidden cell in
Asgard, one which Thor unwittingly broke open back in issue #1. Odin then
erased all memory of the Dark Gods from everyone but himself. Now Thor learns the
Dark Gods are in Asgard and his father and brethren are prisoners so he
determines to take the war to them….