Thor

…The day the world serpent releases his tail and rises from the sea to keep his appointment with Thor, the day Heimdal's horn, silent since the dawn of the worlds, finally sounds across the Nine Realms, and the armies of the dead and the giants and the fire come for Asgard, and gods and monsters settle every grudge in this story in one last cataclysm.…

…And it was at this precise moment, with impeccable narrative timing, that Thor returned from his expedition in the east.…

…Thor, as was his habit, had gone off on one of his long expeditions into the east to battle trolls and monsters and assorted oversized menaces, the kind of extended business trip that could keep him away for a very long stretch, and that no one in Asgard could exactly schedule around.…