The Immortal Thor #10 - "Getting the Ax"

[laughing_tree]

Shooter had a couple of interesting perspectives on Thor that stuck with me—in his hands, Thor had a kind of otherworldly tone to him. When a gigantic superstorm was battering the heroes in their HQ, Thor was outside enjoying it, and at one point he broke Enchantress out of the heroes’ jail so they could have a proper Asgardian-to-Asgardian conversation. Jim Shooter put a lot of care into things like that—I remember the X-Men immediately broke off into a third faction to emphasize that they weren’t like the other heroes, the Hulk (with Bruce Banner’s brain at the time) was growing more aggressive every issue… it was no real surprise that Thor should come off as a little strange and even alien. -- Al Ewing

Comments

[tcampbell1000]

I'm with scorntx on this one: I don't think Ewing's main target is the MCU--there's nothing really that Hemsworth about The Keep's Thor here or the Roxxin' Thor that "inspired" him. The quippiness of Thor's "banter brain" might feel a little MCU-ish, but there's been lots of comics dialogue written in a similar vein, and too many of the gags like "Mjolnir Premium" and the Thor Truck just don't map to the movies in any way.

Heck, even at its most cartoonish, the MCU always took pains to treat Loki as a complex, pained character, whereas in Roxxin' Thor he's just THE EVIL LOKI, GOD OF EVIL, like somebody looked at the original Kirby rendition and went, "Can we do it less subtle?"

(Although I will admit that refashioning Thanos from "simp for Death" to "environmentalist who wants to prune the tree of life and just GOES TOO DARN FAR" did feel a little Roxxonish to me, but that's a complaint best aimed at an Infinity War thread.)

[zylly]

Yeah, I'm seeing that a bit more now. I saw the accusation on tumblr and it struck with me a little too hard, I think.