Having reclaimed his mantle as God of
Thunder, Thor is in Thailand on his new mission to recover various
lost treasures of Asgardia. Trying to recover the Wizard's Eye from
the temple of Cyttorak pits him against the Juggernaut. Juggy knocks
Thor off a cliff and he calls for Screwbeard to send him a hammer.
With hammer in hand he clobbers Juggy—and the hammer breaks. As the
big brute rains down the blows, Thor calls for all the hammers the
dwarves have made. When they rain down, the cultists touch them and
are electrocuted. Thor takes the biggest, clouts Juggy soundly and
returns to Asgardia with the Wizard's Eye.
On arrival he gets into an argument
with Screwbeard over the poor quality of the latest hammers and Ud
the Troll offers to look for a new source of Uru. Thor checks in on
the newly-blinded Heimdall who cannot see how the other realms are
faring. A mournful Odin asks after Freyja....
Thor goes to the Bronx in Midgard where
Roz Solomon is organizing housing for refugee gods and elves, etc.
Jane Foster is improving and wants to touch the new golden hammer.
Freyja is caring for the injured Volstagg and asks Thor to be nice to
Loki when he sees him; Thor is not so inclined....
Irked, Thor goes out to find the Gem of
Infinite Suns, battling the Sub-Mariner for it. He returns to his
boat in Newark Harbor with the shark that has swallowed the Gem; he
extracts it, leaving the carcass for Thori and his goat. Thor goes
below where Loki is waiting for him...after a lot of fighting, Loki
manages to offer to help Thor end the war, by promising to send Thor
to the realms where Malekith is rampaging. Loki sends Thor off
unwillingly but Thor grabs Loki by the hair pulling him and the boat
with Thori and the goat into Hel—where they are met by Balder the
Brave and Skurge the Executioner driving a huge war machine....
“The Grace of Thor”
Writer: Jason Aaron. Art: Christian
Ward.
In the distant future, King
Thor battles the last of the space sharks on request from his
granddaughters the Goddesses of Thunder, who wish to make it a
vegetarian pet called Death Mouth. Thor is summoned by prayer to New
Midgard where Lady Jane, the first woman of the revived world, is
dying. Lady Jane asks if there is an afterlife where she will see her
late husband Steve again but Thor can only tell her no. After the
funeral, Mjolnir returns from its journey across the universe,
leading Thor to follow its path back to the distant cosmos where he
learns that the bulk of the universe is already dead, eaten up by
entropy. In his frustration and bitterness he wishes he had someone
to fight and his wish is granted: an ancient Wolverine, with the
power of the Phoenix Force, appears before him....