Thor #493: Review

Dec 1995

Warren Ellis, Mike Deodato Jr.

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Thor #493 Review by Peter Silvestro (May 15, 2024)

Review: Ah, here we are…the things that Warren Ellis has shaken up in Thor’s long mythos: The Norse gods are aliens with advanced science that resembles magic. That’s it, actually. And we never have confirmation that this is true, merely the opinion of one “expert” whose book Curzon has read. In fact, excerpts from Curzon’s reading seem to take up half of the issue, just to reach the same conclusion Thor does. And Thor gets to it faster, spending most of the issue puzzling out his relationship with the Enchantress. So, the issue is half soap opera, half dull reference guide. And nearly the entire plot will be crammed into the next issue.

PS Mike Deodato’s art is still nice though a bit too 90s.

PSS Thor’s shirtless look comes off as silly.

Comments: Nick Fury is referred to as “late” because he was apparently killed by the Punisher in DOUBLE EDGE: OMEGA #1 shortly before this.

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Thor #493 Synopsis by Peter Silvestro

The morning after his tryst with Amora the Enchantress, Thor broods on his newfound mortality, his distrust of Amora, and his fear that she really cares. They talk about their earliest encounters when she was one of the Masters of Evil yet she claims she never hated him, because he always did what he thought was right. She confesses that her motives in bringing him to her home were selfish and they both admit they are lonely….

Meanwhile, Detective Inspector Curzon frustrated that his first American case should be so weird. Evidence from the radioactive emissions from Mjolnir shows Thor was on the roof with the dead warriors and likely was the one who killed them. To understand the World-Ash which seems to play an important role in the case he spends several pages reading various reference books on Norse mythology. He concludes that someone has used the World Ash a/k/a Yggdrasil to kill Thor. The tree controls all of history until Ragnarök after which it births the next race of humans. So if Thor is dead, something has convinced the World Ash that Ragnarök has already happened….

Thor and Amora awaken, he dresses in the bare-chested outfit she has had her servant obtain. He intends to return to the machine torturing the Yggdrasil to learn who is slowly convincing the Tree that Thor is dead and therefore trying to erase him from existence….

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