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AARON
RIBIC
SVORCINA

ASON AARON &ESAD RIBIREUNITE

EORTHE CONCLUSION OF THETHOR
STORYSEVEN YEARSIN THEMAKING!
 KIN

THE
TROK
GIRLS OF THUNDER
TOGETHER WITH THEIR GRANDEATHER
KING THOR. THE SISTERS FRIGG, ELLISIV
KING THOR
THEIR GRANDEATHER FACES THE FIGHT OF
HIS VERY LONG LIFE. EONS AGO, HE FACED AN
ENEMY NAMED GORR, WIELDER OF AN ANCIENT
FORCE CALLED THE ALL-BLACK-BORN OF THE
ANDATLI HAVE WORKED TO REVITALIZE THE
ONCE-DEAD EARTH OF THE
FAR FUTURE. GOD KNULL AND FORGED IN THE FIRE OF A
CELESTIAL AFTER GORR'S DEATH, THE ALL
BUT EVEN THOUGH LIFE ON MIDGARD IS
BLACK SPENT EONS HIDING OUT, FIRST IN
FLOURISHING ONCE AGAIN, THE REST OF
THEN IN EGO THE LIVING PLANET.
THE UNIVERSE SEEMS TO BE DYING. WHILE GALACTUS,
NOW AT LAST IT HAS FOUND THE ULTIMATE
THE GODDESSES SEARCH FOR ANSWERS..
HOST: THORS BROTHER LOKI. AND sO THE
TRICKSTER GOD CARRIES A NEW TITLE..

LOKI THE ALL-BUTCHER

..AND HE'S HERE TO END THE UNIVERSE.

CHAPTER ONE:
TWILIGHT ÖF THE THUNDER GOD"
JASON AARON
writer
ESAD RIBIC
ar tist and cover
IVE SVORCINA
color artist
VC's JOE SABINO
letterer

JAY BOWEN ADAMKUBERT &MATTHEW WILSON; LUKE RoSs &FRANK D'ARMATA; GERARDO ZAFFINO
logo variant cover artists

SARAH BRUNSTAD
assistant editor
WIL MOSS
editor
C.B. CEBULSKI
editor in chief
JOE QUESADA
chief creative officer
DAN BUCKLEY
president
ALAN FINE
executive producer

THOR created by STAN LEE & JACK KIRBY

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SUPPOSED EVERY
TO DIE. LAST LITTLE
SPECK OF
LIFE.

BUT THEN.
LONG.LOooONG
TIME AGAND
HERE I AM.
I AM.
STILL AL/VE
AREN'T I?
YOu'D TELL
ME IF I WASN'T?
BECAUSEI WOULD.
I WOULD WANT TO
KNOW THAT
 CERRIFIC. MYNAME I'M AFRAID
1S SHADRAK,
AN
GOOF. EMEMEK
MORE OF THINGS
ANYMORE.
RGOTTTE
ARE YOU SUPP0SE..
THEOHSH
LIBRARIAn?

HE KEPT
THE BOOKS ALIVE
FOR AS LONG AS HE
DID YOU
KNOW...THERE
COULD. AND ONCE HE uSED TO BE TEN
COULDN'T FEED HIMSELF HE WAS. ENTIRE REALMS?
ANYMORE, I DID IT FOR MY FRIEND.
HIM. FOR JUST A
BUT NOw...THEY'RE TIME DID
FEW MILLION
WHETHERHE ALL MERELY ASH. HAT GORR THE
LIKED T JUST LIKE THE GOD BUTCHER
YEARS. OR NOT.
GODS. COULDN"T.

GODS. THATS
WHY DERE HERE
Hey AnCALL BE
GOnE. CAN YOU TELL
Us HOU TO FIDD AnY
LDHO ARE LEFCE ADY
DHO COULDCAND
LWHAT SC...
WHACE DOu
1S ComiNG.
YES, I KNOW
WHY YOU'VE COME
HE ALL THE WAY FROM
ASGARD, YOUNG
LADIES OF
THUNDER.

THE IT PASSED
ANNIHILABLADE. FROM KNULL TO
THE GOD-
SLAYER, GORR TO THOR
TO GALACTUS
TO EGO,.
AND NOW..
BY THE DIAMOND
MOONS OF OGHoGHO,
NOW ALL-BLACK THE
NECROSwORD
GONE TO
HAS
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ComE
OuT AnD FACE
u s , "UnCLE, " YOu

BEARDLES5 COWARD!

SHADRAK, I Know THE POWER BECAUSE IT HASN'T FINISHED

HE WIELDS. T'VE READ THE WRITING ITSELF YET. AND GODS
AnTiEn, 5TORIES OF KNULL. HELP US, THIS NEXT
SA UWHAT GORR DID CHAPTER..
LITH my Own EyEs. WE
HAVE TO FiND AUIAY
TO HELP OUR
GRANDFATHER
OR THE SAGA

NO
DONTKNOW
yoUNG GOPDESS
YOUNG O
WHOLE STORY.
BECAUSE...
...BELONGS
TO LOKI
BROTHERS5.
SincE i m i E S

mmEmORIAL.

HEy HAVE FOUGHE

mORE BATTLES THAN
CAN BE COuNtEDD

But nEvER
LIKE THIS.

nEVER WITH THIS

muCH POuG
BETWEEN THEM.

Unsc ETOmoVABLE
CHUNDERSN2OVABLE

BLoop is WHAT
HAPPEN5.

BLoop Anp THE

ASGARD

STARTER5.
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yOu KILLInG
REGRE yOu THOuGHT YOu coULD CH In FOR
mE InA
PIT OF MuSPELHEIM FIRE VIPEK5 ALL
mE HE LAS
you HAD THE
CHANCE DOn'T
YOu, THOR?.
AKRGE EtERniTy EH? BuT T ATE my WAY
THROuE 1 THEM,
BROT HEB.

untiL My
n5IDES BURnED
CEARS
TURNED TOvEnom.
A E Y AY CO
YOu, OH lGHCYY
KING.

ALOnG HE
HAT HAvE DEvoURED AN.
Ou DoDE: EnEHE A
You monsTER? nECRORORLD.
S0 NOW...
ASGARD-

GRRGGHL ne TAp
nECROGOD. LOKI
THE EnD OF"
ASGARD.

VERS HInG!
STARTING ITH
YOu, BROTHER
THOR

iACHER CHOR KnOws CH

UCH ITOKISORD5.HE
Knous CHAT nO MATTER THE
OUTComE OF CHIS CHUNDEROUS
ConFRONTATIO.
THE
UNESIRE

DOOMED.
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5TILL DESPERATELY CLInGS.

AnD HE Knows THIS

LUORLD 15 IOT onEE
OF CHEn.

yoUR HAMmER
WILL FInD YOu NO
50 HE FEELS NO AID, BROTHER!FOR
UALISABOUC
LHAT HE MUST
nong REMAINS In
DO NExC.
FLY, MJOLnIR! THIS BARREN
FLY TO THE EXISTEncE!
nEAREST STAR
THAT STILL
BURNS!
ASGARD OH AND. CHE CHOR8-RORCE WILL NOT BE
HAS FALLEN. OUR BLES5ED EnoUGHJUS AS E
EnouGHAGAInSTGORR. THE
THE GODS GRANDDAUGHCERS
ARE DYInG BENEATH Al-FATHER KNOU5 THIS.
AREno
mo mY wEAPON EVEN
WE.

ttooK HREE THORS

W GODErEACCHAo
BucHER,
BerREe.e
AND GORR
RCAL

inFECTED DIcH DARA

POWER, WHILE LOKI...

LOKI AS SPAUNED BY GIAnts

AnD RAISED BY GODS...Anp HE HAS
EEn inFECtED TH PARKNE5S5
Since tHE DAY HE WAS BORN.

v RE
A
PASTAnmER

SRn? HA. YOU

THINK me

STOP m¬?

DO.

BUT I
CHIDR CHIS
WILL HURT.

CHE UNIVvERSE AS DIsEASE.

A GANGENOUS WORLD THAT
OozEs JELLIED ACID LIKE PÜS. |
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WERE H
SinCE THEY
CHEY

SomEPAYEED. CHOR
HAS KNOun THIS
FOR mANY YEARS.

YETnEvER BEFORE HAS HE

FELT50STROnGLY CompgLLEDP
TO BESPOnDIn KInD ALAYS
HOLDING OU HOPE CHAC HIS
WAYLWARD, BROTHER COULD
5omEpA 5omEHOW,
BE SAVED.

BuT FOR THE unIVERSE TO SURVIVE,

FOR MANKinp to oUTLIVE ITS GODS,
King, THOR nOw ACcEPTS THE mus OKI
DARKTRUTH.. DIE.
 SIStERS..
IT'S HAPPENiNG.
Do You
IT?
FeEL
ALL I FEEL
ELLI, 1S My EyES
GETTinG CLAWED
OUT By THESE
THORBIRDS!
DAmnED

GRRRRGH

BSHASGARD I1s
BURNinG. WE HAVE

YOU'RE TOO
LATE. ASGARD
WAS ALREADY
GONE BERORETO
LEFT AND NOW
DE

w EEN
N

BOOKS.

LIKE
HEL IT
HAS!

ORUS. OR EVEn IT'5THAT

GRAnDFATHERA ABOUTHAV
EVERYTHING
FRIGG HE'S A
THOR. AENBCES
SHADRAKSMADmAN
RIGHT,AND
ERE

YOu knOW
ELLI.
SHE'S NOT mLUST BE A WAY TO
WRONG. STOP LORI AND5AVE
WHAT S LEFT OF THE
univER5E. WE
HAVE TO.KEEP
5EARCHInG.

CHIS
sNT ABOUT
ASGARD.

GAAARRGH
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EOR EAWAY
OUOFTHISBIRDS
monstBOUS GULET I HAVE A
unLESS WE MOVE SHARD OF THE
BIFROST. I CAN
S1STERS!
TAKE U5 AnyWHERE GOING ANYWHERE
A LIBRARIAN NEVER
in THE univERSsE. ABANDONS HIS
SHADRAK, WHERBE BOOKS..
DO WE G0?

UNTL ITS TIME TO PASS THEM ON.

AND EINISH THE STORY J

HOW?:
Don'TEVEn EGIN u THAT'S WHAT
Know WHERE
TO BEGIn! BEGINNING. I'M GOING TO
DO. SEE..I JUST
REMEMBERED

Do. yo EAD
ENOUGH BOOKSTO
KNOW THAT WHEN
YoU'RE SEARCHING
FOR AN
ENDING..
MY NAME IS AND 1
SHADRAK. GOD
OF BOMBS. WISH YOU WELL
ODDESSES OF
THUNDER.

GoODBYE
NOW.

AKA
OmnipOTEncE CITY LWAS
3UILT WITH TRImMiNG5
FROMTHE CLAY OF
CREATION AnD FIRED
WITH EMBERS THAT
LIT THE FIRST SUn.

AnD tO DUST
AnD FIBE
nowBEtURNS.
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no mORE
ASGARD! nO
mORE GOD
mORE OTHE
LIE
FROmGALAXIES AUAY ECERIL
LIFE!
KInG THOE
DEEP IN GUCS.
His GOD-GUTs.
GRRRRGGH CHE FINAL ACT
HAS BEGun.
omnipotENcE AnD THOR
CCY. no.. KMOWS...

CHERE WILL BE HEH, LOKI 1S AMILY

THE GER OF CRUCH V
n
no BECUK O PEAE, noT HO
FROMCHIS. FunDAmEnTAL TRUTH OF ALL T rC
EXISTENcE, BROTHER DEAR.. nOCHIG...
15 THAT noTHinG
LASTS FÖREVER.

EXCEPT
FOR LÖK

AAARRREEe¬NGO
A5 THOR5 INAR
AR
aCOOSS THE S7TARUWAYS5.
THE GREATESt AGONYY
ComES nöt FRom HIS
GRIEVOus wounD BUT
FROM THE WITHERING
VERACICYOF LOKIS
WORDS. A
AL THOsE EOns OF
STRUGGLE, AND In
CHE EnD THERE'5
notHinG LEFT...BUTT
THE VILE5T HATRED
AnD PETTiEST
SIBLinG JEALOUSY.
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i t BRInG5
L C A TC.

HO DIED?
FACHER

HBRRGH!

you THoUGH, THE most. Anp.jg WAS

HE DIED,EACEFuLLY ICIAEDETAIL5 ALL FAULG
OFEVERY SInGLE
DROP OF BLOOD ID
ITOLD HIM. FOR
not 5TRANGLING
R
EvERY minp ID
LED me yYCRIB
IN HIS DICHERED
OLD EAB.
ABOU EVERY ATED FOUnD mE.

ViCIOUS LITELE HORROR,

EVEN THE OnE
nEVER TOLD
AnYoe

Am
oDnsLEGACY.
imAtE JUsT AS
IT WILL BE
THOSE IORDS FORYOu,
S HAT KILLeD
OURFATHER. HE DIED
WEEPInG CHORInG on
SHAME.AD
gRInDI rACS
WAS CHE LAC
CHING HE SAW.

DIDN'T KILL
FACHER.

I DID!
 BECAUSE IT
WAS JOTuNHEIM!
AnD nouW youLL
BURn TOO yoU DIED?
DIep
JOTunn-5PAWNED
BASTARD!

HE WAS A
SHELL OF HIm5ELF
HIS InD GonET
PUT HIm OUT OF HIS
misERyADD BURnED
HIm on A PEE
0unHEIm!
2You
CAn'T...
(HRRARKU

SHE
DIED OFA WERE FREAS ,ITH HER
BROKEN DYinG BREATH
CURSInGHEART
YOURGREAT REGRET. . OUR mOTHE,
LOKI! LAMENTED EVER
LWRETCHED
NAME BELIEVInG
you!

EVER
LOVInG
YOu.

me DOT
 how ImTHE nEW LORD OF BECAUSE HE MAY tELL
HImsELF HIS HEART I5 BuT 15 It THE LO55 OFHIS
LECH
OF HEAL-FACHER HARDENED TOLO BROTHERB
KinG CHAT HAS THE
OF THuNDER
ASHR,ABROCHER
ACHE AROCHER BE
BE WEEPIne
ConsumED BY ThHE SUN. TEARS SAY DIFFERENT OR15 IT THE UNSHAKABLE
FEAR CHAT THI5 CimE..

OnE 5un won'T

BE ENOUGH.

GODS,
ho!
 HELLO AK AS
ALL-FAT GuE55
MuRDERED To WHATS
youR SuN nExT!

yOuR nELWLY
REBORN mMDGARD
S0GEnEROUSOF
YOU TO REKINDLE
LIFE HERE..

is

50 THAS
TCOULD HAVE
AIILAL
IT ALL OvER
AGAIN.

JUST AS
S0on AS.
WiCA ED
BROTHER.
CHORHASIVED FOR mORE AFtER ALL THAC Lot EnoUGH TmE,
R E EONS, HA HECOULpvE nEVEB Co SAVE HIS
D O C EnouGH Own BROTHER.
GOD EVER BORN. imAGInED..CHATIT C2AVE H E WORLD.
ANY WOBLDS.
enotiGH

AVENGE
THIS unvERSE
GAAARGHI

THERE LL
BE NoTHING TO
BEHOLAnT AVENGE, BROTHER.
C no5. ,IILL LIVE SO
FHEREAREAy LonG Inemptines5
OLERHO
HEAH PRAYEKS.. I'LL FORGET YOU,
EvER-

S
HUUGHK

CURns OUT CHERE

A CHOR'5
PRAYER.

SE... CHE LASST

GOD AnYone
EXPECTED.

TWO
OMNIPOTENT
BROTHERS SQUABBLING
wITH EACH OTHER WHILE
ALL OF EXISTENCE
wITHERS AROUND
THEM.

THISIS
EXACTLY wHY
1'VE ALwAYS
PESPISED
YOUR KIND.
GORR 6D
GOD OF GOD
BUTCHEKS.

THIS.
IS wHY ALL
eO05 MUST
DIE.

TO BE CONTINUED