seekquaze

General consensus appears to be this issue was a dude.  It is entirely possible to tell fillers that have little or nothing to do with the main story going on in the ongoing so I don't think there is really an excuse.  Milligan's Trial of Thor was better than this.  The Matt Fraction ones and Alan Davis's "Thor: Truth of History" were all far better than this. 

I think knowledge of his issue relied on having a general knowledge on who Seth was, an evil Egyptian god that had fought Thor in the past and wanted revenge.  I don't have a problem with the lack of backgroudn.  Like you, for me the story fell apart.  Thor compares the possibility of killing Grog the same as killing Bor?  Seth decides to run off instead of pressing his advantage and killing Thor despite Seth himself being at least as powerful as Thor backed by his goons and Seth stating Thor was stillw weakened. 

 And don't get me started on the art.  Ranging from the uninspired fight scene with Grog merely blasting constantly and Thor deciding to block/absorb some blasts and not others you have other problems. These range from panel sequences that don't make sense to awkward body poses to the lack of damage on Thor's outfit.  

All in all I think everyone expected something a bit better.

I've read the first six issues of the comic and a couple of others, but I fail to see what is supposed to be so great about this series or this issue.  I can see commentary, but for me it is constantly overshadowed by excessive violence and swearing.  I do not mind some excessive violence and swearing.  Some of Warren Ellis' more interesting works has had this, but with Ennis he always goes overboard with it. To me it is little more than a vehicle for Ennis' superhero hating progaganda like most of his work involving superheroes at all. 

I also fail to see how The Boys are righteous superheroes.  They are as brutal as those they kill.  Butcher would be happy personally slaughtering all 100,000+ supers on the planet whether or not they did anything to deserve it.  The Frenchman and the Female are more than willing to brutally kill anyone who looks at them wrong.  Even Hughie to some extent is getting that way.  About the only difference is they are for the moment doing it to people who are (usually) as bad or worse then they are.  Besides Stormfront, what did the rest due to Butcher to derserve to be brutally killed?

I understand the concept of the "flawed hero," but why does flawed in the minds of some people equal "complete monster."