With
Odin’s unleashing of the magic sword called Raven’s Eye, Thor, Officer Kim
Gaunt, Annie and Silvia Prazniki, and the addled derelict Odin discover they
are in a Dungeons & Dragons style fantasy world, dressed and armed
appropriately. Thor takes the sword for safekeeping while the two Prazniki
women continue their ongoing quarrel. Then they are attacked by a band of
warriors, servants of King Albrecht. Thor hurls Mjolnir, forgetting it is no
longer enchanted so it does not return to him. Annie is in trouble so Silvia
comes to her rescue. The group’s leader raises Mjolnir and they seize Silvia
and vanish without a trace. Thor and Kim recognize the name Albrecht as coming
from Wagner’s opera known as the Ring Cycle, based on the stories of the Norse
gods. So, they walk for three hours…
…and
encounter Loki, who asks their help in combating evil. Thor wants to smack him
but Kim notes something different about him viz. nobility. Then Loki is struck
down by an arrow fired by a vicious Balder, riding a winged horse. Thor leaps
into the air and delivers a blow to Balder, unhorsing him….
Back
home, Victor Prazniki frees himself from his bonds while an oddly motionless
Loki looks on. He picks up a phone and calls Amora but is sent to voice mail….
At
New York State Prison, a convict stops by the Mad Thinker’s cell and finds him
[apparently] dead….
With
a great deal of difficulty, Thor manages to subdue the winged horse and fly it
far and wide. Then Thor is attacked by a giant dragon, resembling one from the
opera. Thor slashes its face with Raven’s Eye and it plummets to the ground in
human form: Albrecht, King of the Dwarves. The hero confiscates the magic ring
which gave him shapeshifting powers. Thor flies the horse until he comes upon a
castle which he assumes to be Asgard. Thor spies on the inhabitants and sees
Wotan (German Odin) and a red-bearded nasty sort called Thor. Balder brings in
his prisoners (Odin, Kim, Annie, Silvia, Loki). This Thor glories in the
extermination of the dwarves which Loki recoils at; our Thor wonders if this is
how Loki sees him and Odin. Bad Thor kills Loki; when Balder mentions that it
leaves more gold for the rest of them, bad Thor kills him too. Wotan orders
Thor to kill the prisoners too so good Thor bursts in and, dodging bad Thor, he
hurls Raven’s Eye, impaling Wotan…
…and
suddenly, Thor is transported to the Asgard he knows, only to find it in
ruins….