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Warning : Contains coddler for Power Girl # 12!Comic fans are well acquaint with Asgard , thanks to Marvel’sThor . What they may not love is that they are getting a highly fictionalized version of mythic history that has become the banner in modern medium . Surprisingly , with her sudden slip to Valhalla , Power Girlis here to manoeuver Scandinavian mythology in the correct focusing .
Thanks toPower Girl of the Superman Family , Norse mythology is getting an actual historic take . InPower Girl#12by Leah Williams and Travis Moore , Kara ’s newfangled young man , Axel Gust , is from the mythological land , and he takes her there on their next impromptu engagement .
It ’s here that DC lover can encounter several key mythical Easter eggs that Marvel has n’t gotten around to treating correctly , including the head of Mimir , Vidarr ’s boots , Odin ’s crows , and many more .
Power Girl has been a controversial hero for some prison term , entirely because of how she looked . Even with a more minor look , she ’s still getting some flak .
Power Girl Sees More Historical Legends Than Thor Could Ever Count
The Head of Mimir Dispenses Secret Knowledge
In Marvel Comics , other thanThor and Odin and Loki , there are not many truthful historical facts regarding Norse mythology . Axel Gust seems to set this right by giving Power Girl a tour of some wondrous tale from the Prose and the Poetic Edda of medieval lore . He picture her Viddar ’s kicking - created specifically for the son of Odin to destroy the very beast that killed his father . Already , the family tree is being correct in DC ’s rendering of Asgard , regard historically , Loki was never Odin ’s son .
Next , her A-one - undercover agent love interestshows her the ravens of Odin , named Hugin and Munin , which think of Thought and Memory . The direction they are represented as two - dimensional Holy Scripture and archivist is a brilliant looseness on their historicity . Then , there is the Mirror of Mimir , which brilliantly sterilize a long - forget play on words . Mimir is often thought to be a head that Odin consults for secret Wisdom of Solomon , but it could have been translate to be a well of mystic cognition . Here - it ’s become both , in a nod to the initial linguistic mix - up . Leah Williams has done her homework , and Axel Gust is just her new mouthpiece .
Power Girl Is Now DC’s New Hope For Surviving Ragnarök
Power Girl Fights for Glory in Valhalla
WithRagnarök reportedly coming to the DC Universe , it ’s no surprisal that Asgard and Valhalla have in conclusion been revealed at a metre like this . While this is only a small set up for a larger tale that need much liberal mythological themes , the world - edifice in this issue is rattling and historically accurate . It ’s been a retentive time since Thor led reader through the hall of Valhalla and taught them its story .
In the oddment , this issuance has many more hush-hush moments for fan of mythology , history , and religion , and it ’s done in a beautifully creative flair . The wonder of myths is in being able-bodied to re - separate tales in a new style , and Leah Williams has done just that with DC ’s interpretation of Asgard . see this is just one of the nine realms of Norse myth , Power Girlmight continue to show upThorand elaborate DC ’s mythology further in the issue to come .
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Power Girl#12 ( 2024 )
