Undead vikings invade Manhattan - Thor (and Doctor Strange) to the rescue!
Garth Ennis made a rare foray into superhero comics with his Preacher artist Glenn Fabry in this relatively-unknown 2003 Thor comic (when he does write for Marvel, he tends to write “street-level” characters like The Punisher and Nick Fury and ignore/slight the more colourful superheroes - this is the man who also wrote The Boys after all!). Unfortunately, I can see why this book is out-of-print and largely forgotten as it’s quite poor.
The storyline is contrived in how this threat emerges in the most superhero-populated city in the Marvel Universe and nobody but Thor (and Doctor Strange) can stop them. The viking zombies causing chaos in Manhattan felt cheesy to the point where I thought I was reading an unproduced Troma movie Ennis had once written!
Glenn Fabry’s art is excellent as it always is. This book is a MAX title, meaning it’s aimed at adult audiences, and Fabry takes full advantage, drawing very gory scenes that you’d almost never see in a Marvel book. His Thor though is weirdly feminine in some scenes.
It’s good to have a lil subversiveness in the Marvel Universe now and then and the art is solid, but Thor: Vikings is still an unremarkable, one-note, predictable, and quite dull Thor adventure. Lesser Ennis then - if you want to read his better Marvel comics, check out his Punisher and Fury books instead.
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