The Mighty Thor #8 Review

Writer: Jason Aaron / Artist: Russell Dauterman / Marvel Comics So, I was sitting here, thinking of how to start this review and something occurred to me; the Thor movies would be much better off if they started taking cues from Jason Aaron’s playbook over the last few years in Thor: God of Thunder and now, The Mighty Thor. The movies aren’t necessarily bad, per se, but they’re definitely the weak link in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I’ve never seen a franchise go 0 to 100 from “building a hero” to “swords and sorcery romcom” in two movies. At least with the Transformers movies, it took a solid three to four movies for Optimus Prime to go from “noble Superman-like hero of the Nintendo generation” to “sociopath mecha version of Chuck Norris” so Michael Bay could lay claim to something vaguely resembling character development. Jason Aaron has given his characters so much nuance and offered up such a wonderful blend of gravitas and lightheartedness, it’s an absolute mystery that Marvel Studios doesn’t seem to have even tried to incorporate some of the more colorful aspects of the mythology into the films so we can have a plot aside from “Thor saves Jane Foster from things while Loki outcharms the whole goddamned cast.” Alas, I guess we’re just stuck with Aaron’s superb series, The Mighty Thor.

Where Issue #7 sort of veered off the paved road and took a small, bizarrely drawn detour to do some setup for upcoming conflicts, Issue #8 drives us back onto the main road. We get a b…