A-Force #5 Review

Writer: Kelly Thompson / Artists: Ben Caldwell, Ian Herring / Marvel Comics Here in Issue 5, of the many things we learn, the most important is that the events and people of BattleWorld will not stay in their own dimension. Singularity isn’t the only person to have transferred from that reality to this one. It appears we have a THOR! Recall from Secret Wars that the Thors were the police force for God Doom. In that comic, each of the Thors had the body, appearance, and personality of some other hero or villain from one of the other universes. When informed of all of this, our A-Force team is of divided opinions about it.

For the record, that panel is my favorite one of the comic, hands down. The heart and the skull with She-Hulk and Singularity in between? Come on, now. It is clear that Caldwell and Herring did not come to mess around. So which Thor do we ge? We get Dazzler Thor. Which is one of those phrases that I as a comic reviewer couldn’t ever have imagined writing, but which feels so good to see and say. Dazzler Thor. Because really, Dazzler has a little bit of Thor’s self-righteousness and Thor has a lot of Dazzler’s love of joy and life, so they’ve been destined to be together, in some twisted alternative reality BattleWorld kind of way. Just let that sit with you a while. Dazzler Thor. [divider type=”space_thin”] And what is Dazzler Thor doing on the Oregon coast? Fighting a dragon she calls The Countess, of course. The team and Dazzler Thor knock The Countess back…