Hildegarde (Earth-616)

Huge SPOILERS. Proceed at your own risk.

This comic starts with Brunnhilde's inspiring speech.

Then, Jane tries to fight the Celestial. She struggles but luckily, new Valkyrie joins her. However, her help doesn't prevent Jane from being trapped in Celestial's corpse.

The Jane's visions inside the corpse try to tempt her. But she refuses.

Meanwhile, army of Valkyries that has just arrived try to severe the connection with All-Black. And they succeed.

And so, the souls are freed. Alta and Sentry too (not sure if you're happy with his send-off, @Mørningstar but I hope you won't complain).

To be continued in King in Black #5 (obviously).

This comic, as well as this entire series is great. It has a nice art and thrilling adventure style. The striking moral of this story is very moving. Though, my only nitpick is 'clickbait' cover. I won't complain about not knowing new Valkyrie's name as it will be revealed in Mighty Valkyries.

How about you? What did you think?

I wanted to do that yesterday but I didn't find time.

Possible spoilers.

This comic starts with Sentry's soul trapped in dead Celestial. We see how much he's suffering.

Then, we see more of Hildegarde's backstory which is nice. I find this warrior as a little girl adorable.

Unnamed Valkyrie is in Vanaheim after victorious fight with Vanlandi drinking and feeling reluctant of going back to dead Celestial corpse she was trapped in...

....while other women want to realise Brunnhilde's plan.

At the same time, Brunnhilde speaks to Ivanir in Valhalla.

So, the Valkyries perform the ritual and throw the needle.

Synergy Valklyrie is still talking to Mr Horse about her fears.

And Hildegarde reach out to catch the needle...with no avail.

I can't wait for the final issue. I like that every comic gives us POV of different Valkyries: MCU-like in #1, Dani Moonstar in #2 and Hildegarde in here. I think the next personal narration might be done by Jane or Brunnhilde. It bugs me how the new black Valkyrie doesn't care about fight but I understand she might have some sort of PTSD. Overall, she's better than I thought at first. But if they don't give her the name in KiB:RotV #4 or the Mighty Valkyries comic, I'll be mad! 😠

What do you think though?

Story recap:

The comic starts with Dani Moonstar fighting in New York. She saves people and struggles to fight Symbiote dragons throughout the whole comic while narrating. Meanwhile, in Valhalla, Jane learns the truth about the headless Celestial that trapped our new/old Valkyrie and Sentry from Brunnhilde.

Speaking of that axe, with Jason Aaron being himself, it had to be Jarnbjorn.

While our newcomer goes to Vanaheim to retrieve her weapon from the prince of thieves, Jane retrieves something from Asgardian Armory and travels to Earth, all while riding Brightwind. She gives an aid to Dani and Hildegarde arrives. All three (former) Valkyries stand together as the issue ends.

General thoughts: I liked it a lot better than the first issue. The various colourful locations look very nice and Valkyries teaming-up in combat is what I wanted from this limited series in the first place. I liked Dani's point of view on the whole invasion. Synergy Valkyrie doesn't seem so bad anymore and retconning Jarnbjorn to be hers is not a big deal for me (especially when you compared it to Aaron's other retcon from this week). Actually, it differentiates her from MCU one in a good way. It still bugs me we didn't learn her actual name but not as much as before. All combined with fantasy adventure elements and a plan to give aid in war against Knull make a really nice mix.

How about you? What do you think?