Publisher: Image Comics
Writer: Joe Casey
Artist: Paul Maybury
Release Date: 20th May, 2015

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Valhalla Mad? Damn right I’m mad. This is one of the biggest pieces of unadulterated tosh I’ve ever had the misfortune to read.

I almost couldn’t bring myself to write this review – it took me 3 attempts to get past the first page – but you need to know how bad this is in case you consider, even briefly, putting money its way.

Not bad kitsch. Not bad ironic. Not so bad it’s good.

Just. Plain. Bad.

There is a kernel of a not terribly original but interesting premise – not-Thor and his gang return to Earth after an 80 year absence. What could’ve been at times funny and soul searching is just dire. Grandiose dialogue that is obstructive and sneeringly pleased with itself, truly excorable art that fails to evoke Golden/silver age and just looks infantile – no redeeming features. Everything remotely original here isn’t, as it’s been done before. It’s an atrocious vanity project from the most ambitious and inventive of publishers.

Rating: Truly, deserves 0/5.

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The Writer of this piece was: Sam Graven
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