First, a one-off story with one of Volstagg's daughters sneaking and catching dwarves trying to free Fenris Wolf.Then Sif takes Gaea into space to recover from something or other, and there she encounters Beta Ray Bill and alien badness.The art is good. The dialogue is good. But I never quite got the point of the story.

Another Sif centric book. I finished reading it last week, and I can't remember much about it, except that I enjoyed it. This tells me that the storyline wasn't really memorable, so must not have been that good. Shame really, as I remember the plot of the first book in the series. An ok read.

Took a while to get around to this second volume of Journey Into Mystery involving Sif and...man, this comic never really recovered after they wrapped up the Kid Loki arc. And this book reeks of that sad comic book reality of needing to wrap up the story within a specific number of issues. So we get a weird almost non-story involving Sif, Gaea in need of some sort of healing support and...Beta Ray Bill! How they call come together in space could have been quite an amazing adventure, but instead,...

You have come to look on life not as a puzzle but as a problem. It cannot be solved. Cannot be perfected. Only nurtured.I love Sif. This series is fantastic. Full of heart and compassion, but also big fights against space monsters! Battles against cosmic organisms over the fate of the god of the Earth herself, and also bickering with your ex! Big giant dogs that need to be pet, jokes about how terrible Thor is, as well as a meaningful building of Sif's character without the giant blond prince. T...

I should have stuck with my gut; after reading Vol. 1 and not enjoying it, I should have known that the next one wouldn't be any better.It's not better, but it's not worse really. More of the same, Sif is her own woman, she don't need no stinkin' man to help her. She takes Gaea to the Avengers Deep Space Station (thanks to Iron Man - in his Guardians of the Galaxy armour) to detox? Or some shit like that. I didn't even know Gaea was Norse among the Gods...oh well.Ship crashes onto Station, and o...

The volume finished up Immonen's run on the Lady Sif storyline which appeared in 'Journey into Mystery". The artwork is stunning and fits with all the elements of the story. And Beta Ray Bill to boot. Don't miss out on the fun.

While I really liked the first issue of the book the entire Beta Ray Bill/Gaea storyline wasn't to my liking. I have never been a huge fan of Beta Ray Bill but his relationship with Sif has been interesting. Here, not as much. The fact the adventure took place in space mad it all the more odd. All-Mother's reactions to Gaea made little no sense. This book lost a lot of its heart without Kid Loki. Schiti's art continues to impress. Overall, the book was too boring and was at times a pain to get t...

Lady Sif teams with Beta Ray Bill in this volume of Journey into Mystery. It was a fun run and I wish there had been more.

I read an interview with Kathryn Immonen once where she said she never read any old comics for continuity research and didn't care, which put me off her for a long time. However, her 10 issue run on JiM has gone a long way towards redeeming her. The stories collected here are equal parts hilarious, philosophical, and clever with a nice overarching plot for Sif and Beta Ray Bill too. Valerio Schiti's artwork is drop dead gorgeous, and the fact he did 10 issues in a row and only needed a fill-in f...

I loved the role of Hilde, Volgstagg’s daughter in this series.

Enjoyable enough, great art and decent story.

“We are not a problem to be solved. Just because something is incomplete does not mean it is broken. ... We evolve. We change, but at every stage, we cannot be other than what we are. .... You have come to look on life not as a puzzle but as a problem. It cannot be solved. It cannot be perfected. It can only be nurtured.”

My library gave me the opportunity to take out this book and also two trades featuring Captain Marvel, basically two books about female superheroes, written by female writers. I am almost through with Captain Marvel, and I have to say that book is a bit more fun to read. It is more grounded than this book and has wittier dialogue. Of course, I don't think I should fault this book for being out there. Let me just try to explain to you what three of the four issues in this trade are about. A Warri...

I wanted to like this so much. When Kathryn Immonen is writing dialogue and character-driven drama, she fires on all cylinders. I love her dialogue and the interplay between heroes. She has a real knack for the Asgardian way of speaking that keeps the book feeling simultaneously Old World and modern. The first two issues of this collection are great, showcasing that talent and allowing us to live in Sif's world and just kind of enjoy being there.Then, the major story arc for this one kicks in, a...

We need more Sif adventures. Are they out there? Someone point me at 'em!

The first volume of Sif’s JiM run didn't really work for me. Sif is not strong enough as a character to headline a story that doesn't include other familiar Marvel faces. As a result, V1 felt like one of those off-brand graphic novels that feature Thor from the myths. Happily, Volume 2 corrects that and brings back a fan favorite and Marvel original, Beta Ray Bill.The book was excellent on two fronts: it had a good, Marvel-centric storyline that tied into recent events and it provided much-neede...

I wasn't sure if I needed to keep reading yet another Marvel arc but I saw Beta Ray Bill on the cover so... yeah.Some pacing issues - this writer loves the very fast climax/conclusion which sometimes relies on noticing particular items in the images. I prefer things a little slower.The art is just gorgeous, especially the scenery. Reminds me of the best of the old school days.Bonus for Thor being treated primarily as arm candy. ;)

Underwhelming. The first issue in this collection is basically silly fluff. Fun, but I doubt I would have been happier if the entire book had been like that. Instead, we get the Seeds of Destruction story. Confused, rushed (probably because of the looming cancellation) and entirely unsatisfying. It was good to see Beta Ray Bill, but he couldn't save the book. I'm not sure if the story was rushed or hurriedly cobbled together without direction or both, but it just didn't work as well as it could

I am so sad JiM got cancelled after this because I really felt like they were just starting to unlock Sif's real potential as a lead, as well as starting to unfurl her emotional and character growth from last arc. We needed more of leading Lady Sif. Also. The first issue (651) is literally the best.