The ongoing mystery of how Thor forgot who he was and why he’s in a world where Thor is mega-famous continues this week in The Mortal Thor #7 . Or does it? This is mostly a bottle episode where Thor fights Edward Hyde, and it’s not by choice. Witness an Edward Hyde that’s scarier than any psycho killer you’ve ever seen in a fight on top of a taxi cab!
The Mortal Thor #7 is a fairly straightforward issue, checking in on Thor’s love life, setting up the next villain, and mostly, Thor fighting Hyde from the top of a moving taxi. The issue opens with an incredible two-page scene as Hyde enters a car and seems to be talking crazy. He needs the ride, and unfortunately for the taxi cab driver, that means Hyde has to kill him brutally. The opening scene sets the tone for how ruthless Hyde is before he takes that violence to Thor’s front door.
Which Hyde literally does! After a check-in on Thor and his new romantic partner, Kristin, the two exit their building, where a taxi is hurtling directly at them. With some fast thinking, Thor pushes her out of the way and lodges his hammer and its rope into the windshield. So begins a 12-page action sequence that’s one for the ages.
How scary is Hyde?
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The action by Pasqual Ferry is incredible, with the use of blur, lighting, and angle on the action keeping you invested and literally on the edge of your seat. Part of that is how Ferry uses the rope tied to the hammer, which goes slack in minutes and tight as a whip the next. Thor uses the rope expertly, swinging it around to hit the driver’s side, for instance, or lassoing it around something to steer the taxi from the roof. The attention to detail in this hammer and rope is so great that some fans may not want Mjölnir to return in its pitiful, ropeless form.
If it’s not obvious yet that Ewing is having a bit of fun reshaping these villains, the final two pages are proof of that. Between Hyde and the man with the purse strings, these two villains feel more ruthless and cunning than Thor is used to. Maybe that’s because his usual enemies are gods at face value. Speaking of, Loki makes a tiny appearance, as if Ewing and Ferry are nodding to the reader that he’s still in the background and he’ll get to him yet.
I might also draw focus to the post-coital scene between Thor and Kristin, which feels adult and mature in its approach. They aren’t overly sexualized, and it plays out realistically. Ferry’s rendering of facial expressions certainly adds to its genuine nature.
The Mortal Thor #7 trades big mythology swings for a tightly focused showdown, and it largely pays off. The mystery surrounding Thor’s fractured identity barely moves forward, but the issue delivers a tense, brutal clash that reframes Edward Hyde as a genuinely terrifying threat. Ewing leans into grounded stakes while Ferry turns a moving taxi into a kinetic playground of rope physics and shattered glass. This is Thor at its most gritty and intense.
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