Valhalla T07 - The Serpent In The Abyss

is an ongoing series of Danish fantasy-adventure comic books drawn by Peter Madsen and co-written by Hans Rancke-Madsen and Peter Madsen, and based on a story by Henning Kure, with contributions from Per Vadmand, Hans Rancke-Madsen and Peter Madsen. Although Hans Rancke-Madsen is the main series writer, the title became a breakthrough for Peter Madsen because of his illustrations, and it would come to be known as . Originally commissioned for and published by Interpresse, it has been published by Carlsen Comics since 1987. It has also been published in Swedish, Norwegian and Spanish. The tone of the albums has focused on humor, but the characters, and much of the plot, are based on the stories and legends in the (featuring the adventures of the Norse Gods, mainly Odin and Thor) and many albums have often featured deeper human issues. The albums are of high quality, and each took one or several years to produce. The first album was released in 1979, the second in 1982, and the thirteenth in 2006. Presently in its fifteenth album, the series is very much in the tradition of finely drawn and well plotted Franco-Belgian comics like or , which also served as inspiration for the comics. This 7th album is a scanlation (a portmanteau of scan and translation) into English from the Danish original.

The two mightiest gods in Asgard are Thor, the God of Thunder, and Tyr, the God of War. But who is the mightier? To answer this question our friends travel to the outermost part of Asgard, where their friendship is put to a gruelling test during Thor's attempts to land the Midgard Serpent. The Serpent in the Abyss is a recounting of the myth about Thor's attempts to fish the Midgard Serpent out of the depths of the ocean. This comic album is based on The Prose (Snorri's) Edda and the "Lay of Hymir", which also tells about the god Tyr's kinship with the giant Hymir. --

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