Mortal Thor #12 (legacy #798)

[shakalooloo]

Wait, who said this wasn't a horror book?

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[cainofdreaming]

Oh no! It's King Hiss!

[iamrman]

Yay, Jormungandr!

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Thought just occurred to me: Is Thor basically sidelined from appearing in Avengers, et al while this is going on?

[beyondthefringe]

I guess so.
The whole Norse pantheon is in an uncertain state, as we’ve seen in Doctor Strange when he returned to Earth, Moonstar when explaining her horse to people, and so on.
But of course Hela and Tyr are on the loose and doing Queen in Black stuff.

[shakalooloo]

This month there is going to be a Hela one-shot explaining how she's active on Midgard while everyone else is barred.

[mastermahan]

Huh. I thought the explanation was just "Hela was in Midgard when the Bridge broke."

[shakalooloo]

Add further words to the value of $4.99 and that's right!

[aperturedreams]

Yes, in One World Under Doom you can see Beta Ray Bill take his place in the final issues

[scorntx]

"I devoured the self that was here in an time long pa-*cough* oh, sorry, don't know what came over me there..."

It does explain a few things over the last eleven issues.
(I know this is issue #12, but Blake wasn't in issue #1, was he?)


Devouring a person's entire being and using them as a living body suit.
Wonder where Jormungandr got that idea from, Loki.


Before this one came out, was thinking about Blake's role so far, how with Loki having gone morally ambiguous, their part as Thor's sibling turned evil and insane seemed to have been put on Blake not just because of all he went through but because "someone had to do it".
(Sort of like how Amora over in Asgard seems to have taken on Original Loki's fondness for plotting, scheming and unlimited power. She's even stealing Movie Loki's lines!)
But this came as a bit of a shock...

(also, random thought not related to the twist... what's happened to Jane in all this?)

[agharta75]

Jormungandr, just like Dear Old Dad.

[thanekos]

There is no way Sigurd's life isn't climaxing without a riff on " .. if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor. "

[cainofdreaming]

".... if he be worthy, shall he be Thor in the morning."

[full_metal_ox]

"You ought to know, before I go, I'm Thor," he bade adieu.
"You 're thore!" said she. "Conthider me! I'm thorer, thir; than you!"

(From “The Thong of Thor” by John Boardman (1933-2025); content warning for stereotypical Horny Viking behavior.)

[agharta75]

Gee, Thor hasn't heard that one since middle school.

[mastermahan]

And you thought Captain America had a big serpent hiding in his trousers.

[numeronone]

I wonder what the other Marvel book Ewing's writing is called...

[agharta75]

"The Missing Thor"?

[numeronone]

Venom. I was making a link between this being about a snake and the other book is Venom.

Naturally, this is hilarious now. You're hilarious'd.

[thecoolthatguy]

I do like Blake being redeemed, but it sure is annoying how few writers seem to actually want to write Thor being Thor.

[sabertoothlotus]

I think it's kinda the Superman problem. When you have a character so powerful, it's difficult to find ways to keep them relatable. Thor doesn't even have a secret identity anymore. At least Clark keeps Supes grounded in humanity.

[blues32]

Good grief...you cannot tell me that Sigurd is going to fight the Midgard Serpent with a hammer on a bungie cord.

[nyadnar17]

This is pretty terrifying.

Also...also yes to Blake not being left to that awful, awful fate.

[blues32]

I mean...he was. Sigurd isn't Donald Blake. He's a reincarnation of Blake's soul. Blake is still all evil and such. Just soulless.

[thanekos]

Immortal Thor #25, after the thing that causes Sigurd happens: ' The great Serpent - who wore the name of Donald Blake but could never be that again - screamed then.. '

Maybe that was " Jörmungandr + Donald Blake " then, but for Mortal Thor it looks like it's just been " Jörmungandr in Blake-skin ".

[blues32]

What happened to the symbiote he bonded to?

[shakalooloo]

In this issue, it is established that no-one knows which is dominant , hence that whole 'dragon dreaming' question; is the wyrm wearing Blake, or has he taken its power?

[blues32]

I thought it was just a twist on Kafka's "The Metamorphosis". Where the bug dreamed he was a man but the dream is over and now the bug is awake.

[shakalooloo]

"When dying Jörmungandr told the tale to Thor, it was a tale of power corrupting.

"Thor was told that Blake had eaten all that Jörmungandr was, and the wyrm's power had mixed with the Odin-power that remained in Blake from his creation.

"And there was truth in that, of a kind.

"But the truth untold was that Jörmungandr had planned it that way.

"The dying self that told Thor his tale was a discarded skin, no longer needed. And who was in the skin the Serpent wore now?

"Was it Jörmungandr with the soul of Blake? Blake with the power and hate of Jörmungandr? Both at once and neither?

"The dream was over... and something had woken up."