![]() ![]() Man-Thor has been told he’s no longer worthy to swing Mjolnir into the faces of unsuspecting supervillains, so the mantle’s been passed to Jane. ![]() Jane Foster, the Odinson’s on-again-off-again romantic interest. In the years since, the previously-masculine Thor is now the tough-ass Dr. Thunder in Her Veins is the latest volume of Aaron’s epic Thor yarn, which began all the way back in 2013’s The God Butcher. It is, pure and simple, a really great book. It’s what you’d get if you fused Supergirl, The Big C, and the political machinations of Game of Thrones. It’s written as both an empowering feminist paean, a thoughtful meditation on terminal illness, and a straightforward drama with superpowers. The current run has been something of a pleasant novelty amongst the myriad generic capebooks currently on shelves a clear story-and-character-driven piece which cares little for much of the superpowered crossover shenanigans going on around it. Maybe if you had, it wouldn’t be as entertaining as it is now more likely we’d have something resembling Red Sonja with lightning hammers. You couldn’t have produced a book like Jason Aaron’s The Mighty Thor twenty years ago. ![]()
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