Book Review: Sif issue #1

Book: Sif issue #1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick with illustrations by Ryan Stegman with color by Juan Doe

Cover art by Travel Foreman and June Chung

Edition: Digital

Description:

SPINNING OUT OF THE PAGES OF THOR! The Asgardian warrior Sif was no stranger to battle; the heft of steel, the pitch of combat, the spray of an enemy's blood...she even craved it. But when Asgard and its people made their glorious return through the power of Thor, Sif's body was stolen and possessed by crafty Loki. Cowed by such defilement, Sif hasn't been her true self...until a former lover and mate in arms comes to her with a call to battle and blood-spattering adventure...Now Sif sets out with Beta Ray Bill to fight her way back to true warrior's glory!


Rating: 5 stars

Review:

In this one-shot, Lady Sif was still getting over the ordeal of Loki stealing and taking over her body and banishing her spirit into the body of an aging and dying woman. Despite Thor restoring her, she no longer felt like the warrior and goddess she once was. Since then, she has been wasting her days away in the little town of Broxton, OK.

Her mundane evening at the local bar was interrupted when Beta Ray Bill and his companion and girlfriend Ti Asha Ra showed up looking for Thor. Beta Ray Bill's ship had been stolen by pirates and needed help in getting it back. But since the God of Thunder was unavailable, Sif offered to help.

Reclaiming the ship will be no simple task because the pirates were infected but the Lady Sif is more than ready for the challenge.

This was very well-written with great artwork. I like this comic because not only does it shows that Lady Sif is awesome but that it showed a rare glimpse of Sif fearful of the experience she went through with Loki. But what I love is that despite that, she was not going to continue to wallow in self-pity. And she was also no longer going to let that fear continue to control her. Fighting with those space pirates reaffirmed her fighting skills but completing the task of stopping their plans seemed to have restored her.

A great issue that makes me wonder why Sif doesn't have her own comic book series.