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I wasn’t sure what to make of this mini-series after the first issue.  Thor is the best ongoing book on the stands right now.  Secret Invasion rocks so hard it hurts.  Put the two together and you get… Beta Ray Bill? 

Issue two featured not a single panel of Thor.  BRB and the other Asgardians face down a horde of specially-designed ‘god killer’ Srulls.  Then, things heat up with the arrival of a super-skrull with the powers of four female super-villains and the ability to wield Stormbreaker, Bill’s version of Mjolnir.  The Skrulls somehow cut his mighty war-axe into two weapons for the Skrull-creature to use in battle.

Things are really getting good, with the nameless Skrull-chick whumping BRB and a good number of Asgardians, when she inexplicably decides to go kill a human baby in nearby Broxton, which doesn’t really go along with the whole “He loves you.  We’re only hurting super heroes, not regular people” schtick the Skrull have going on. 

The final panel, a beaten and defeated BRB reaching for the hammer, only to be told to stand down by Don Blake, was sublime.  I can hardly wait for the next issue. 

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