Thor #8

[kojiro]

Agent Roz arrives, and the female Thor leaves.

Comments

[kumahige]

So, she went from love interest/confidant to full fledged replacement? Having read that What If story where she becomes Thordis kicking all kinds of ass, all I gotta say is I am pleased and it makes her scene, trying to confess Thor Odinson who she really is, pretty poignant and moving. To think they had a history together.

Now, on the other hand, when did Jane got Cancer? Last time I saw her she had brown hair but, on the other hand, it lends itself as an interesting comparison to the Lee/Kirby days when Don Blake was a handicapped man wielding the power of Thor.

[lordultimus]

Called it.

[cainofdreaming]

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only... Secret Wars.

Also, those dead black eyeholes on that helmet always creep me up.

[silverhammerman]

In retrospect, Jane Foster should have been the most obvious candidate (pre-existing character, name recognition from the movies) but still a well told story, and the fact that it didn't seem certain at the time shows Aaron's skill. Now we can only hope that the secret Nick Fury told Thor to turn him into Odinson will pay off as well as this, though I have my doubts that'll happen.

I'm getting shades of Betty Ross turning into Red She-Hulk here, and while I'm not generally someone who likes it when superhero casts all get upgraded until it's so insular that there are no regular people, it's not like anything else was being done with Jane Foster.

[protogarrett]

So what was Thor's secret anyways? The one Fury told him? Did we ever find out what made him unworthy?

[janegray]

I like this. It's an interesting twist :)

[cyberghostface]

With a reveal like that it kind of makes me wonder why they made her identity such a big deal in the first place.

[sagrada]

I never noticed until now that Tor Odinson was wearing tight leather pants. And now that's the only thing I can see. An acceptable trade.

[nyadnar17]

Might want to add more character tags for those hoping to avoid spoilers.


That said I really wonder why they dragged the mystery of who she was out like they did. A lot of people upset at Odinson being replaced would have been a lot more ok with his replacement replacement being an established character.

[thosefew]

So, does this restart the whole Wakanda/cancer thing?

[jekylls_salvation]

So Thor was short for Thordis. Now I feel bad about calling her She-Thor the entire time.

Three cheers for Jane!

[starwolf_oakley]

Thor stories over the years have established Jane has an ex-husband and a son. Her ex-husband is Keith Kincaid, who was supposedly Odin's "template" to create Donald Blake. Yeah, I don't get it either.

Hopefully, Keith and her son will be mentioned, but I will understand if they aren't.

[baihu]

As someone who didn't really follow when femThor appeared, I just went with it (I thought the Earth X version was cooler), am I suppose...to be surprised by this revelation?

Like I know Jane Foster as a satellite character, somehow this doesn't seem all that big of a reveal. As Thor said, there's a list of only so much characters a female Thor could be but still be recognizable to the readers. Why wouldn't it logically be the sort-of love interest that's been mentioned for quite some time?

[tigerkaya]

So finally Publicity stunts true identity has been revealed, super I guess. Like Thor's old human form of Donald Blake lifting the hammer it makes sense that Foster now wields the hammer.

[big_daddy_d]

This series has been good but the reveal that it's Jane... that was the first and obvious choice. When it comes to things like that, it's underwhelming in a way that leaves me feeling that making it such a big mystery is a waste of time. At least it wasn't as long as Red Hulk's identity mystery when everyone and their dog knew who it was.

[punisher007]

I called this months ago. It was either going to be her or Roz Solomon, and Aaron was hinting at Roz a little TOO hard. Personally, while I have no issue with this idea, the "mystery" element didn't do it for me. I don't care about the "mystery" or "who is the new Thor?" I care about the new Thor being awesome and having interesting character work done, neither of which has really happened yet since we dragged out a "mystery" that didn't need to be a mystery in the first place.

And I still want to know what Fury said to the OG Thor that made him instantly "unworthy." That's been dragged out for FAR too long as well.