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Emery Calame
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I think Barbara Gordon should be the bat that broke Bruce Wyane's window and convinced him to become Batman. It flew into Dr Fate's tower and got made into a girl who Gordon adopted because of his Manhunter brainwashing.
Did you guys know that Marvel has made Thor a woman? Again, I mean. They have to counter program Archie getting shot to death with something I guess.
Edited by Emery Calame on 15 July 2014 at 10:25am
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John Byrne
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The sad reality is that the companies are no longer able to generate STORIES that will seize and hold a reader, and have to depend on publicity stunts. To state the blindingly obvious, the first hundred issues of FANTASTIC FOUR can be read with nary a stunt to be found. Part of this lay in the fact that the way the books were promoted -- mostly next issue blurbs and house ads -- meant the companies could not artificially inflate reader excitement with stunts. There simply wasn't time. Partly, tho, there was the original audience, tweens and teens who could get excited simply waiting for the next issue. (I know! I was one of them!) The product did not have to be tailored for idiot speculators and ennui-engorged Forty-somethings.
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David Allen Perrin
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JB said:"The sad reality is that the companies are no longer able to generate STORIES that will seize and hold a reader, and have to depend on publicity stunts."
Thor is a woman now. Is that what you mean? |
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Marc Cheek
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The sad reality is that the companies are no longer able to generate STORIES that will seize and hold a reader, and have to depend on publicity stunts.
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At least, you, and a handful of other creators, can still do generate engaging stories. Otherwise, I probably would have quit my new buying all-together.
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Jean-Francois Joutel
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Thor is a woman now. Is that what you mean?
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What else is "new"?
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Peter Martin
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Yet another person who proves worthy of wielding Thor's hammer. And thus Thor himself gleams with a little less lustre.
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Marc Cheek
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...wow... I thought maybe that was a joke, but I guess I shouldn't have been surprised..
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Mark Haslett
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From the "creators" behind woman-Thor:
Series writer Jason Aaron says "This is not She-Thor. This is not Lady Thor. This is not Thorita. This is THOR. This is the THOR of the Marvel Universe. But it's unlike any Thor we've ever seen before." Marvel editor Wil Moss adds "This new Thor isn't a temporary female substitute – she's now the one and only Thor, and she is worthy!"
(quote from Dark Horizons website)
This is not She-Thor, this is Thor? Okay, back that up again... what?!
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John Young
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I can't find it but I thought I had just read somewhere that Angela's (Neil Gaiman) origin is now that she is Thor's sister who was stolen as a baby. So maybe this is the new THOR.
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John Young
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found it LINK
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Ronald Joseph
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"This is not She-Thor. This is not Lady Thor. This is not Thorita. This is THOR. This is the THOR of the Marvel Universe."
Made to more closely resemble Chris Hemsworth, no doubt.
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John Byrne
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Apparently making characters female has become the default setting after making them "dark."
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