Find Thor, Vol. 2: Prey Produced By Donny Cates File

Cates' first Thor volume sitelinkleft me a bit cold, even though it featured huge battles and powerful cosmic entities, It just felt like Cates skipped over the whole "Thor is King now how's he feeling about that" part and jumped right to "King Thor saves the universe at the end of time.
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Fortunately, Cates takes a step back with Prey, providing a smaller, more Asgardian story that still features plenty of action and fun costars.
Thor is feeling a bit at loose ends, so he decides to take a quick break from the crown by switching places with Donald Blake, Cates neatly explains Blake's role, so you don't have to recall ancient Thor comics to know what's going on, Amusingly, Blake has gone insane in the time since he and Thor last swapped roles, so now that he's released on the world, he's decided to kill all the Thors.
And yes, when it comes to defeating Thors, Throg is included it's awesome,

The storytelling in Prey is crisp and clear, the art spectacular, Cates does a wonderful job of digging into Thor lore while also moving the character forward in his kingly role, This should have been volume one in the series I'm now much more excited for what's to come, One word:
EPIC!

This series is amazing.
I highly recommend. You know. . I was wondering what became of Donald Blake, . This one was awesome! Its about Thor sending the hammer to test in Oklahoma, meeting with a man named Adam Aziz and then a fun encounter with Iron man and then summoning Donald blake who has now become a threat in this voldemort like get up, us finding what happened to him and his revenger against Odinmagic users and so he faces off against Jane, Dr Strange, Throgg and Betarey bill and the final battle between him and the others and ultimately Thor and what his ultimare fate would be! This story was so good and changes so many things about Thor mythos going forward, the writing is like a well paced action movie with a good climax but the art is the real deal, its so good and the colors just compliment it so well! Amazing! After having my doubts about Donny Cates first volume of Thor, Im happy to say hes definitely got his groove on with volume two.


This volume starts with a really nice two part story that returns Mjolnir to Broxton along with an unwelcome but hilarious surprise for Iron Man.
The main event, however, is the sixpart epic and it is epic titled Prey which features possibly the most unlikely antagonist Cates could have come up with in an absolute stroke of genius.


This volume features a host of guest, most importantly the Mighty Throg and Lockjaw! Always overjoyed to see either of those guys but its even better when theyre together.


My only complaints about this volume are that Im almost positive theres a continuity error or two here although Im going to have to do some back issue diving to be sure and that I wasnthappy with the ending.
I know why Cates ended it the way he did it leaves it open for certain characters to return but to get this ending certain characters had to take some actions that I found rather unlikely.


These are minor irks, though, and when you factor in how great the artwork was throughout this volume Id give this one,if I could. Great stuff.

My next book: sitelinkFantastic Four vol,: The Forever Gate While it's been a little while since I read Vol,, the recap page helped me to remember what had happened, The first two issues of this collection are basically the transition/breather between the bigger story arcs, These provide some levity between Thor and Iron man but also act as foreshadowing, although maybe a bit more direct, Referencing a previous story/time period the JMS run is a good reminder that there is history to the MU, Something weird is going on with Thor's powers and he's getting a really bad feeling that's everything's about to go to Hel, Didn't care for the art on these issues and got concerned the series was taking a turn for the worse,

However, the next six issue story, called "Prey" was phenomenal, The art was much better and the villain was somebody who you would never think of, Cates spends a few issues making it clear who this person is and why they are so angry, Their strength and abilities are a clear threat, Additionally, the ending tells the reader just who Thor really is, compared to his father,

Another strong entry by Cates and looking forward to the next volume, Thor second outing is dark as hell, and I'm here for it,

So this collection starts of with a twoparter, Thor throws his hammer down to earth to test a theory, It mostly works as he learns other people can pick up his hammer get the Odin Force, After having a little confrontation with Tony Stark Thor decides he has to take some drastic measures, So he decides to let Donald Blake come back to the real world but Blake isn't too, happy.

This is a great look into Thor and Blake's life and view on things, Loki and the others get to really shine this volume, even Jane does, I liked the fact it felt smaller scale, and the fact we got Frog Thor to show up and he's a fucking badass in this volume.


So yeah overall this was great, A little rushed at the end, but man did I like this arc a lot, This started off a little plodding, and I wasn't sure if it would grab me,

Well, it did, Big time. Once the action picks up it doesn't stop and the whole volume crescendos into a fantastic showdown and finale, Great stuff

Great follow up volume, I'm starting to really like Cates writing and the direction of this series, This volume convinced me more than the previous one, Cates made good use of a character whose very existence I had forgotten I actually thought he had been retconnednamely Donald Blake,
Who comes back with a vengeance,

Thor is

on the bench for most of this one, leaving the playing field to others and a few guests too, The way Blake is used is original and interesting, generating unsuspected levels of tension and violence lavishly illustrated by Nic Klein who clearly seems to have a ball.
It ends on a quite somber irony, a bit abruptly maybe, but still remains a good storyeven though captions tend to be invasive and overwritten,

The book also includes a much lighter twoparter set in Broxton, Okla, focused on Mjolnirs weight problems,.
The concept and storytelling was solid, The follow through fell a bit flat, Ok, this is more like it, I bemoaned Donny Cates' first Thor arc as a story he hadn't earned the power to tell just yet this second arc is what he should have lead with, if you ask me.


The first two issues are actually unrelated to Prey itself, seeing Thor troll Iron Man and throw his hammer into the middle of Midgard to test a theory about how his kingly duties and his God of Thunder powers are interacting spoiler: badly.
This is goofy fun, and it's nice to see Aaron Kuder over at Marvel for a change and for him to finish two issues on time and pencil all forty pages of them.


Then we get Prey itself, which sees Donald Blake return and set out for revenge on all of Asgard, taking it apart from top to bottom.
We get a whistlestop tour of almost all of the Thor characters you'd expect to see and some you're not, like Frog Thor, and it ends with a climactic battle that feels like the end of an arc this damaging should.
The fact that Thor's only really a bitplayer in this arc makes me wonder if Cates is happier writing other Asgardians instead of the big guy himself.
Departing series artist Nic Klein draws these issues with the usual flair and grit which makes the battle scenes really feel visceral,

A much better second entry into Thor's world from Cates and crew, While the first arc had me wondering if I should get up and get off, if he's got more stuff like this up his sleeve then I'm sitting back down and strapping in for the ride.
Wow I didnt dont see that coming, Cates just threw Thor into the horror genre,

Oh the horror, Wow, wow, wow! OMG, is this ever amazing! From start to finish, this, THIS, is what a Thor title should be, and it's only Cates' second volume What the what From story to art, this is just outstanding stuff and I can hardly wait to see what's next.
. . Another banging story by Donny Cates, everything this guy writes for Marvel is guaranteed fun, but I have to confess that his frenetic storytelling style burned me out a bit on this one, I thought the story about the return of Donald Blake needed a bit more build up, ended too abruptly, concluded yet again with another character/power mashup, a new Marvel trend that I'm growing really tired of, call me old fashioned, but I like seeing our golden age heroes using their original powers.
A pretty damn solid book nonetheless, threeandahalf, rounded up, First, Aaron Kuder steps in for a two issue story that explores what's going on with Mjolnir, It seems something is affecting Asgard's magic, I love Iron Man and Thor pranking one another, BTW, that was a real sitelinkphone number you could call and get Tony's voice mail,
Although I think it's been disconnected at this point,

Nic Klein returns for the Prey storyline and things get real dark, Donald Blake returns. Unfortunately, he went insane while being trapped alone for so long, His character design is terrific, That ending. So dark and appropriate to Norse myth, .