Original Sin: Thor & Loki: The Tenth Realm

Enormous fun. Don't read reviews. Make up your own mind about it. Loads of Thor and Loki goodness in every shape and form going.

The Watcher is dead. The secrets are free.The Odinson has a sister. And he will do anything to find her,The artwork changes a lot it's basically a origin story of an previously unknown. Where will this take her and Thor, and Angels ????

It was a fun read. A nice introduction to a great new character, and it was nice to see Thor and Loki getting along.

This is supposed to be a tie in to an event called "original sin" but feels more like a b story to the regular Thor comic. It's modern comics decompression at its worst as this plot could have been done in one issue.

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Its okay. Not fantastic but worth a read.

Turmoil engulfs the life of Thor like never before as a secret hidden so deep that it's not even written in Norse mythology, rises from the depths to cause trouble for the God of Thunder.Following an incident in Original Sin, various secrets are revealed within the superhero community. This tie-in story is a spin-off from the main event and explores the specific secret that's been kept from Thor (and us all) since the dawn of Marvel.There may now be spoilers ahead.Eons ago, the Nine Realms were actually Ten Realms. Among the Asgardians, the Frost Giants, the Elves, the Trolls and such like, also lived the Angels of Heven, and they were at war with Asgard.During a climatic battle, the Queen of the Angels stole Odin's baby daughter and killed her. Such was Odin's grief and rage, that he ripped Heven from the very World Tree, and banished it from the Realms.So Ten became Nine, and Asgardian folklore continued as we know it.However, the daughter did not die. Being a baby goddess, she survived, and was brought up by the Angels (hidden from the Queen) and rose to prominence as their greatest warrior; the Mistress of the Hunt.Skip forward several ages, and Thor has discovered the fact that he has a sister. Recruiting Loki on his quest to find her, they break through the space between the realms and arrive in Heven. Unwisely announcing himself as a prince of Asgard and Odin's son, Thor finds himself under attack from the naturally anti-Asgardian warrior Angels of Heven.Enter Angela, the sister, real name Aldrif. Of course, she doesn't know that she's secretly an Asgardian, and is tasked with beating Thor up, which she does with ease.Loki, the manipulative trickster that he is, schemes with the Queen and seemingly abandons his brother to the Angel's fate.Long story short: Odin, returning from his self-imposed exile (see Fear Itself), arrives to intervene. The truth is revealed and everyone gets to live. Angela is banished from Heven, and Odin returns to Asgard with his sons.All well and good, you might think. Hardly.The story itself is ok. Jason Aaron and Al Ewing have been told to write a story that turns Angela into Thor's brother, and they've done that. There's more to it than that though. Angela was brought to Marvel comics at the end of the awful Age of Ultron story. Previous to that she was the creation of Neil Gaiman at Image Comics, being a character in the series Spawn. She later had her own series.Now a deal has been done to bring her into the Marvel Universe. She was ripped through the space/time continuum and dashed around space for a bit with the Guardians of the Galaxy. Then the Marvel execs must have said to Aaron, "We'd like to make Angela an Asgardian, and a brother of Thor. Make it so."So Aaron has reverse-engineered the fact. And now Angela gets to star in a series of her own; Angela, Asgard's Assassin.I'm not overly ok with this, just yet. I'm a lover of Norse mythology, and am slightly bewildered by this decision by the House of Ideas. It's a shame because I'm intrigued about this Angela character. I never read Spawn so I'm as new to her as this story here, having never read GotG either.Plus, there's a few plot holes in this tale, like why there are no men-Angels in Heven (how do they reproduce?), and just how was the Tenth Realm hidden from everybody? Odin and Freyja have kept it secret, but Asgardians are immortal so the likes of Heimdall or others have also kept this secret from Thor (and us)? This niggles me slightly.The story is ok, just not complete enough for me. It was a little rushed, like when Loki and Thor discovered Heven, this hidden realm that has been so for millennia from everyone, in just 3 pages and 14 panels. Perhaps a 6-issue story would have been better.Jason Aaron has been on the money during his reign on Thor God of Thunder. He's had a slight dip in form here, but he's achieved his task with what he had to work with I suppose.The artwork isn't the best either. Drawing duties are shared between Lee Garbett and Simone Bianchi, the former drawing all non-Heven stuff, and the latter doing all the Heven-based stuff. Unfortunately I'm not a fan of Bianchi's work so another half-mark is deducted here (this is however, the best work I've seen of his). Garbett however, has a style that I'm fond of so I'll be keeping an eye out for more of his work.Overall, there's pros and cons with this story. I'm still undecided about the whole Original Sin series. I rated the Hulk Vs Iron Man tie-in quite highly, but this one I'm not as keen on. But at least Odin is back after something like a 3 year absence, so there's something to be thankful for. I do look forward to see how Angela continues to find her way in the Marvel Universe, I guess I'll just have to live with the fact that she's the sister of Thor.

During the 2014 Marvel Event, Original Sin, The Orb uses one of The Watcher’s eyeballs to somehow reveal all of the Marvel superheroes’ secrets. Thor’s big surprise? He’s got a sister: Angela. So he and Loki saddle up the interdimensional goats to travel to the hidden Tenth Realm, Heven (there were previously nine, including Asgard and Midgard) and meet their long-lost sibling. Predictable fighting ensues!First off, Angela being Thor and Loki’s sister isn’t a spoiler, it’s all over the blurb of the book. So - why do that to the reader? Not sure! We have to sit through most of the book though as a clueless Thor fights Angela because that’s… interesting? Not to me!Since Angela appeared at the end of Age of Ultron, Marvel haven’t really known what to do with her, or even bothered to update her very ‘90s look (lingerie model doing a space Viking shoot). She’s, um, part of the Guardians of the Galaxy! Now she’s Thor and Loki’s sis! Next… who knows! She’s Asgard’s Assassin…? We’re just throwing anything at this cypher, I mean, character!There’s nothing much to say about the book as the “reveal” is the “story”. As soon as they enter the Tenth Realm, Thor begins fighting and Loki begins betraying - in other words, they do what they always do! Al Ewing does write a good Loki though and his/her scenes (true to form, Loki swaps genders at will) are definitely the best but when the rest of the book is so flat, that’s not saying much.Simone Bianchi draws (most of) the pages set in the Tenth Realm while Lee Garbett draws the pages set outside it. Garbett’s art is good while Bianchi’s is an acquired taste - I find it much too thick and pancake-y to call it enjoyable.Like most Event tie-in books, The Tenth Realm is unimpressive and very thin on substance. I kept waiting for a story to emerge and wondered where it was headed only to discover the answer was: nowhere! Thor and Loki discover they have a sister, Angela isn’t pleased about it, they separate. It’s a totally missable volume to an underwhelming Event - just reading the blurb is essentially the same as reading the book itself.