Zarda the Power Princess
battles the All-Gog who boasts of having eaten the gods with her next on the
menu; she earlier escaped being eaten but left her Uru gauntlets inside. She
now summons them, ripping out the monster’s intestines….
She returns to her
base in the Statue of Liberty, adding All-Gog to her sculpture garden full of
enemies who have been turned to stone, including Knull, Giantess (Janet van
Dyne), and Tigra. She is bored with inactivity, drinking and reminiscing about
her onetime lover Prince Namor. A loud noise outside alerts her and she finds
Hercules coming out of his petrified condition; she demands to know what is
going on; Herc only laughs as he turns to stone once more. Zarda uses her
Rainbow Axe (made from a fragment of Bifrost) to trace the thunder to the
ruined Asgard where she meets Thor, a drunken bum. He starts to regain his
memories as he deflects the Axe but Zarda stabs him with her invisible sword,
mocking him as the last of the forgotten gods. But Thor grasps Mjolnir out of
the air and is restored to his full powers and memories. He teleports away to
take care of business….
Zarda meets with her
Squadron Supreme partners, Nighthawk, Hyperion, Blur, Doctor Spectrum, tells
them the tale of Thor and asks if they have ever heard of the Avengers….
“Drunken History”
Writer: Jason Aaron. Pencils: Ed McGuiness. Inks: Mark Morales. Colors: Matthew
Wilson. Letters: Cory Petit.
Synopsis: Thor,
his history forgotten, sat in a drunken stupor for centuries while Zarda the
Power Princess waged her bloody wars from her childhood through World War 2
where she decapitated Hitler. But now, as Zarda is killing Gorr the God Butcher
by turning his Necro-Sword into a Necro-Lasso and strangling him (as approved
by her avatars, Queen Zarda and Utopian Zarda), Thor has regained his powers
and his memory. He is met by Phoenix and recruited for their team….