tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13898990.post3445978820932943937..comments2023-10-30T07:40:58.357-07:00Comments on Comic Book the Blog: Looking Back at ThorMarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15559608539292903404noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13898990.post-51438803805111405092012-01-10T14:31:25.335-08:002012-01-10T14:31:25.335-08:00This is so good. You mirror my thoughts almost exa...This is so good. You mirror my thoughts almost exactly. A few differences though,<br /><br />- I thought that Stan and Jack's Thor went downhill with the removal of Jane and later with sidelining Donald. Sif was never an interesting love interest, and for me not really an interesting character full stop. Donald was how the reader related to Thor and how Thor could verbalise his emotions without being distant and broody. With the loss of Donald, we lost the likable side of Thor.<br /><br />-Ellis' Worldengine and the mess with Enchantress was ridiculous and totally remove the impetus of her character as the spurned lover. <br /><br />-Jane and Sif could never swap places at will. The closer Jane got to Sif's experiences the thinner the merge became. So Jane can call on Sif's fighting skill when she's in a knife fight and when she's using her teleportation powers. Jane got trapped in the other dimension when she was given Sif's sword. About 10 years later we are told that Sif knew she could have switched places with Jane had she used to runestaff, she just didn't. It was different than the merge with Thor. Donald is Thor or was at the time and he was switching between masks essentially. <br /><br />- The first half of the Jurgens run is better than the second. I wasn't a fan of the decent Thor went through although I liked how Jurgens showed how detatching Thor from his humanity would destroy him. Its a theme that was there perhaps unintentionally for a long time and included the mad relationship with Enchantress. Thor had lost his way, this was Jurgens showing us where it would end up. Only thematic problem, future Thor says to Sif that had he been whole it would have been her. Surely the lesson is that had he been whole it would have been Jane who he had killed in that timeline (symbolic as the death of his humanity) and was last seen properly just before he decended into madness? <br /><br />I'm of the opinion that a truly humble Thor would always choose the mortal.<br /><br />- JMS' run is completely marred by how wrong Donald is in it.<br /><br />So I'm thinking the good spells are roughly-<br /><br />1963-1967<br />1971-1975<br />1983-1987<br />1998-2001<br />2005-2007<br /><br />23 out of 58 years, about 50-50 then.Nikkihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07232828708855932756noreply@blogger.com