Warning ! spoiler for Thor # 4 below !

Thor’slife is in a state of peril at the moment in the comics , as he ’s becomethe newest Herald of Galactusas the threat of the Black Winter brood . Hisfriends and allies have tried to arrest him , however , his late face-off with Lady Sif left his hammer in the deal of a astonishingly worthy familiar face - Loki .

InThor#4by Donny Cates , Nic Klein , and Matt Wilson , Thor encounters a wee-wee - off Lady Sif afterfighting Beta Ray Bill and destroying his bank hammer Stormbreaker . Those closest to Thor ca n’t understand why he tally to help Galactus and are doing all they can to break up up the unlikely partnership . Sif has taken up the All - Seeing mantle and has the powers of the Bifrost . So , when Thor lunges his pounding at Sif , she teleports it to the frozen barren of Joutnheim , where Loki ’s model bored on his throne .

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Sif tell Thor that she ’s sent Mjolnir to Jotunheim since no man can wield it there . Yet , in the waste , Loki observes the hammer and decides to give it a go in pick it up . Shockingly , he manages to pick it up without exit . Seconds after he picks up Mjolnir , it ’s send away on a journey back to Thor .   Cates teases a pretty substantive next plotline , as the text suggests that the unbreakable bewitchment place on the hammer by Odin that make only the most suitable people able to carry it is starting to change . " Alas , this … is a story for another metre . If , that is … there is still time pass on to return to . "

Cates is clearly planting the come for a futureThorarc that should explain how Loki of all people are up to of being worthy and wield Mjolnir . In the ' everting " electric arc inAXIS , Loki became the God of Heroism and Truth and was able to wield Mjolnir , however , the God of Mischief hold the cock is relatively unheard of . That leads to the question of whether Loki is unfeignedly suitable , or is the spell Odin cast on Mjolnir starting to fade by ? Is what ’s supposed to be unbreakable suddenly disappearing ? Is Thor ’s recent squad - up with Galactus sham the enchantment on the hammer ? There ’s plenty of ways Loki holding Mjolnir can be explained . But for now , it ’s a story for another time - even if it ’s incredibly entrancing . Cates , Klein , and Wilson ’s run onThorcontinues to throw off things up in unpredictable , entertaining new shipway .

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