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The plot weaves in a tricksy manner that I've become accustomed to with Gillen and he writes his interpretations of Norse mythology well.

If you loved Gillen's run on Journey Into Mystery (as I did), then you should enjoy this book. The adventure rather cleverly links back to the Everything Burns mini-event that Gillen co-wrote (with Matt Fraction) in Journey Into Mystery/Thor two or so years back, and because it's a Gillen book, and he's delving into territory that he used to write so well about in JIM, you may delight at the return of Hela and her Disir.

Most of the main Asgardian stakeholders are present Thor, Odin, Loki, Heimdall, Sif, the Warriors Three, and Freyja, Angela's mother, who has another surprise for her daughter, are all here. She tries to find her place, tries to come to terms with the fact that she's kin to her mortal enemies (all explained by Jason Aaron), and gets into an adventure that spans several of the Ten Realms (that's right, there's not Nine Realms anymore, read Thor & Loki - you get the idea, right?). So now, moving into her own series, Gillen explores the aftermath of Aaron's story. I'm not going to go into detail here, you can read that (or my review on it) for more information. All this was explained in the Original Sin spin-off Thor & Loki - The Tenth Realm (Heven being the realm now incorporated into Asgardian folklore), written by the rather marvellous Jason Aaron. Not only that, but she's Thor's actual sister. Since arriving in the Marvel Universe, she got into some adventures with the Guardians of the Galaxy, until another dire Marvel event, this time Original Sin, turned her from random warrior woman to heavy hitter.Īngela, it turns out, is an Asgardian. In real life terms, she was brought to Marvel from Image Comics by Neil Gaiman who created her as a character in Spawn in the 90s. Thanks to the constant messing with the space-time continuum, she appeared through a rift in space.

She burst onto the Marvel scene roughly 2 years ago, in the very last few panels of the woeful event Age of Ultron.

Here's a bit of background on Angela, for the uninitiated: In this first and only volume in her solo series bearing this title (more on that later), Gillen, along with co-writer Marguerite Bennett, catapults Angela from supporting actress to leading lady. Kieron Gillen, one of my favourite comic book writers out there at the moment, who has done little wrong in my eyes, has done something that I thought would not happen: he has converted me into an Angela fan.