So read Valkyrie, not quite what I was hoping for, to be honest.
The first thing is more of just a general gripe, though Tyr is where it's most glaring, and it's kind of subtle, but it bugs me... The Tyr stuff is interesting in premise, but, and this is something i noticed last issue as well, though figured it might just be a quick way to set him up as a threat, or something, but they continue treating him like he has ALWAYS been a villain. Just like Loki is interesting now as a villain turned hero, Tyr is interesting as a hero turned villain, it's the move from one to the other that adds interest, but that's ignored here. Like, I know he's had his bad guy moments before this, even with similar motivations, but... it's weird. I'd have thought the Asgardians would be more surprised at his attack than just being all like 'oh, here we go again, just Tyr doing his thing.' At one point Hildegarde says "I do not know what evil you've brought here today, Tyr, nor do I much care. We've had enough of your sibling rivalry to last a stone troll's lifetime." and it just feels like she is talking about Loki, because she talks as though this is something he does all the time, and it's not. (not to mention that as far as everyone here was concerned, he was dead) And while I get it's kind of the point that he's taken Loki's place, what I find interesting about the characters stepping into new roles is seeing how they grow into them, and how others react to the new people in them as well. That's lessened if it's treated as if it's just business as usual, you know? Like, how dull would it be if Thor took the throne, and was just great at it, didn't feel out of his element at all, and Loki just stepped into Thor's old place, and no one treated it as anything unusual? cus that's what it feels like with Tyr. Somewhat related, it's also weird that it was Hildegarde that said that, and led the Warriors 3 against them, Fandral and Hogun didn't say a single word, even though it is them (and Volstagg, but he was doing his own thing elsewhere) that actually have more history with Tyr, and Hildegarde is the newbie of the group. I'm fine with her being there, and having a part to play, but it feels strange to make her the voice of the group with not much setup there. New roles, yeah, but there is still a transition period, you know? The reason the role changes have potential to be interesting is that it can make everything feel fresh because though the roles are the same, to the people IN the roles, it's new, and if you just have it where everyone acts like this is the usual status quo, that freshness is lost. Thankfully, Cates seems to be leaning heavily into exploring the transition, and how things changed between role holders, so i think we will still have that aspect in Thor, but Tyr is one of the bigger shakeups, so it's a bit sad to see the introduction of that change handled this way. But hopefully it will be picked up again in Thor, and we get more of a 'fallen' feeling with him there, and a sense that the others think he might still be reached. One of the reasons Loki had started to get stale in that role is that Thor kept holding out hope he'd see the light, and it got to the point where like, he really shouldn't have (... except Loki DID eventually see the light, but that's when Thor finally turned on him ) and was just repetitive, and if it feels like we are already at the point where this is old hat for Tyr, then that sense of a reasonable hope that he could be reached goes away somewhat.
Second thing is more spoilery, and has to do with Loki in particular
spoilers:end of spoilers
So TLDR is that Jane defeats Tyr by him stabbing her, thereby effectively giving her all-weapon back to her, giving her control of the darkness, breaking everyone free, and he runs away with his special teleportaiton thing that he learned about in Valhalla, apparently choosing to go to Jotunheim for reasons, and Loki finds him there. I get that it's Jane's book, so I am not mad that she had a major part to play in Tyr's defeat, but I had hoped Loki would have something to do with it... anyway, there's more. So Loki goes up to him and gloats a bit, and says he will hide Tyr from Asgard's wrath IF Tyr shares with him his teleportation tricks, and the captions (which I found very heavy handed throughout, as an aside) say that though Tyr and Jane lack imagination, Loki dos not. So this is on the one hand worrying because Loki is letting Tyr get away with it, and it hints that he is plotting something bad, which seems to directly go against what's going on in Thor and his more recent characterization. But it also doesn't make any sense, because like, Loki can teleport anywhere he damn well pleases anyway, even without the Bifrost. that was a damn plot point not too long ago. (which makes me feel like Aaron actually had very little input here, in addition to some other oddities this issue and last with the characterizations, like describing Tyr as not dead, when he totally was.) Why does he even need this? Hopefully some kind of double cross is planned here, or something...
that probably came off as overly ranty, but... meh.