scans_daily: Thor, Scientist of Thunder

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@ 2011-08-16 10:05 pm UTC

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creator: derec aucoin, creator: ty templeton, title: thor

Thor, Scientist of Thunder

Years ago, Marvel published a series of one-shots with a quirky premise: These were comics purportedly published within the Marvel Universe, the comics that the people living in the Marvel Universe read. I hadn't thought about them for a long time, but

wizardru's recent entry on the line's X-Men one-shot reminded me.

Each of the one-shots took the concept in a somewhat different direction. The Thor one-shot is premised on the idea that most people in the Marvel Universe don't believe he's really a god. So, naturally, Thor comic books in the Marvel Universe are about a hero who uses technology to pretend to be a magic deity.

The story begins with Thor thwarting a gang of would-be muggers.

Thor flies back to his holographically disguised HQ, where his supporting cast is waiting. Team Thor is a three-person operation, as it turns out: 1) Don Jolson, a.k.a. Thor, 2) Uru, a woman who serves the Oracle/BATMAN BEYOND's Bruce Wayne role as the behind-the-scenes partner who monitors the hero from a computer, and 3) Owen Jolson, Don's father and the original Thor. There's also a surprise visitor on this day: Don's twin brother Len, back from a long absence.

Everyone's concerned because the Mjolnir technology's been acting wonky recently. It almost killed one of the muggers earlier.

The Destroyer goes after Thor, whose tech malfunctions as a result of the scrambler Len snuck onto the hammer. Still, he manages to triumph in the end and uncover his brother's treachery.

And, of course, there's a letter column.

Writing by Ty Templeton, pencils by Derec Aucoin

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	no subject starwolf_oakley 2011-08-17 11:37 am UTC (link)
	These comments make me wonder about the DC Universe, and if there are people there who just don't think Superman is really an alien from the planet Krypton. Maybe they think the suit is from Krypton, but not Superman himself. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 4 comments) (Show 4 comments)

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liara_shadowsong
2011-08-17 02:48 pm UTC (link)

I think I've read fanfic where there is suggestion that there are people who think Superman is actually a metahuman who claims to be (or even really does think he is) an alien but isn't (Smallville fic mostly, I think, and they assume he's a meteor mutant, that is, Kryptonite infected but not Kryptonian). It's an interesting concept, but not one that I recall seeing explored in canon. I'm sure that all goes down the tube with New Krypton being introduced, if not way back at the time that Supergirl is introduced in-universe.

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	no subject liliaeth 2011-08-17 08:07 pm UTC (link)
	I think there was a Legion of Superheroes issue a while back, where humans in the future believed that the bit about Superman being an alien was a lie. And there was this whole xenophobic thing going around with aliens being murdered/kept prisoner. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject kamino_neko 2011-08-17 08:10 pm UTC (link)
	That was 1000 years separated from the facts and involved deliberately obscured, destroyed, and altered historical records, so isn't quite the same situation. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject vitruvian23 2011-08-17 03:39 pm UTC (link)
	Pre-Crisis Superman had a Bronze Age storyline where the Kandorian science council had him and Supergirl thinking they were really mutants and all the stuff about Krypton was just a delusion. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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