Journey Into Mystery #649 – Review

By: Kathryn Immonen (Writer), Valerio Schiti (Artist), Jordie Bellaire (Colorist)

The Story: Sif and the berserkers are in New-York and they have to fight more monsters that are currently spreading on the whole planet. Fortunately, they are helped by the Superior Spider-Man and other heroes.

The Review: The more I look and read this title, the more I find this to be close to the antithesis of the previous tenure. Kieron Gillen’s story about Kid Loki had the flair of a Shakespearian drama mixed with humorous undertones, telling the tale of a god of mischief trying to change a nature he had close to no idea he ever had, a clean slate of sort. With Kathryn Immonen, this becomes a book where Sif is a victim of a berserker state of mind influenced by a spell, where she is becoming violent and impulsive, wishing to do battle with monsters and all the like.

The themes couldn’t be any more different, yet it is a great strength, with Immonen doing her own thing instead of mimicking what came before. She succeeds in creating a great female-lead book with cool action, great humor and some surprisingly funny moments, bringing it all in one swift stroke into a great title. To mix all of this together selflessly is very hard, yet she manages in Journey Into Mystery.