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A review by watson_face
Marvel's Thor - The Dark World Prelude by Craig Kyle
3.0
I would normally rate something hastily thrown together like this a 2 but since it’s a Thor comic it plays on that dang soft spot I have for the big oaf. Basically, the point of the prelude is to sum up what has transpired in the first Thor movie as well as Avengers (a quick backseat refresher read while mom drives you to the theater for Thor 2). If by chance you have been living under a rock the past two years and haven’t caught these two films, reading the comic will leave you baffled because they are already assuming you know all of the characters (Jane? Oh, Jane! Of course I know all about Jane! Why, just from looking at her I can tell she’s an astrophysicist and not an annoyingly one dimensional nurse in love with the doctor she works for!).
It’s full of plot holes and mediocre art yet has our favorite one-liners and dialogue from the scripts. The only thing that makes the Prelude worth a pick up is the answer to the burning question of what did Jane Foster do in Tromso, Norway when S.H.I.E.L.D. sent her away there? Okay fine, I will admit, it was kind of cool to see the chaos Thor created when he selfishly broke the bifrost and tossed Loki into the abyss (such a drama queen, Loki, the score even titles that part “Letting Go”). The Prelude should have ended right before the Thor 2 movie is supposed to start but Marvel Comics pulled the ‘Oh and let’s just throw in a Thor: God of Thunder issue in the back because we have a few more pages to fill and it contains Malekith so it sorta has something to do with Thor: The Dark World’ which it doesn’t. At all. But thank you for being so kind to include something I already own.
It’s full of plot holes and mediocre art yet has our favorite one-liners and dialogue from the scripts. The only thing that makes the Prelude worth a pick up is the answer to the burning question of what did Jane Foster do in Tromso, Norway when S.H.I.E.L.D. sent her away there? Okay fine, I will admit, it was kind of cool to see the chaos Thor created when he selfishly broke the bifrost and tossed Loki into the abyss (such a drama queen, Loki, the score even titles that part “Letting Go”). The Prelude should have ended right before the Thor 2 movie is supposed to start but Marvel Comics pulled the ‘Oh and let’s just throw in a Thor: God of Thunder issue in the back because we have a few more pages to fill and it contains Malekith so it sorta has something to do with Thor: The Dark World’ which it doesn’t. At all. But thank you for being so kind to include something I already own.