Thor
searches Manhattan for the lost gods of Asgard but he has no idea how to find
them and the World Ash is dying. He visits the police station where he meets
with Officer Kim Gaunt, who has done a search for the names Thor has given her
but only one came up: Red Norvell, who is seeing the wife of a noted mobster.
Then a gangster calling himself the Count of Monte Cristo demands the heads of
those who betrayed him then whips out a rifle and starts shooting. Thor hurls a
lightning bolt, knocking him out then goes off the find Norvell who lives in a
trailer park in New Jersey. Thor is shocked to find the center of Red’s trailer
blown out. Then he is interrupted….
So
here we get the flashback to what has happened to Red Norvell before this. Yesterday,
Red was being beaten up by the thugs of a loan shark he owed money too. As they
walk away, Red, knowing he used to be a god, attacks them and is beaten again.
His girlfriend Sabrina arrives and ministers to his wounds, fearing that the
thugs were sent by her husband. Red is shocked to discover she’s married,
moreso when her hubby, gangster “Johnny the Gent” Nash arrives with his thugs.
They start shooting at Red and Sabrina but when a helicopter descends, Nash and
his goons hop on their motorcycles and depart. The man in the helicopter is
from the Studio, come to seize the camera equipment Red had never returned now
that it has been used to film pornography and upload it to the internet.
Sabrina comforts Red, breaking up with him. And at this moment, in a world far
away, Thor pulls the sword Raven’s Eye from its place and everyone’s power is
restored, including Red Norvell’s! So Sabrina sees he’s not so bad anymore and
his hammer, lost in the ocean, returns to him, slamming into his midsection and
knocking him through the trailer….
And
it’s Thor Red who has interrupted Thor Odinson. Thor tells Red about the
destruction of Asgard and scattering of the gods. Red asks about Odin who
miraculously appears at the mention of his name but in his persona of the
derelict Wad, having escaped from Dr. Strange’s custody. Thor invites a puzzled
Red along to search for the lost gods….
In
Asgard, a pair of hapless frost giants are searching for weapons in the ruins
of the city when they come upon the unconscious form of Amora the Enchantress….