Walta uses more modern panel structure in that it's not always square/rectangle panels, and his coloring has a lot more softer tones. The other chapters took a lot of cues from classic comics with very dark outlines, bolder coloring without shading, and strict panel structure. I really enjoyed Gabriel Hernández Walta's illustrations in the fifth and sixth chapter of this volume. But the overall silliness and debauchery of the gods is entertaining and keeps readers coming back to these ancient stories.
Occasionally, there will be something that explains a bit of the earth in tone story, a giant uses a mountain to shield his head from Thor's hammer when he hit him 3 times, and that's why it has three big cracks down its peaks. Mythology is usually used to explain the way the world is, but Norse mythology is more so just funny stories about the crazy antics the gods find themselves in and out of. These gods get up to some really crazy things. We follow Frey and how he found and married his wife, but gave up the sword that might save him during Ragnarok. Loki mistakenly gives away the goddess who guards the Apples of Immortality and has to get her back before he's tortured by his aging family. In another story, Thor and Loki travel to the land of giants and are put through several tests of their abilities that turn out to be major illusions. We see the death of the God of Poetry by the hands of two dwarves, and how the Odin gets revenge on them. In this volume, Russell adapts several stories.
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