Okay, so I just saw the AWESOME trailer for Thor, and I gotta say I'm a little confused on one thing.
Now, I've never followed the Thor book, actually I've never really cared about any of the Avengers. JLA seems to kick the shit out of them in terms of iconography, and the X-men eat up all the awesome in the Marvel universe (with a few exceptions), as far as I've always been concerned. I mean, to a point where they have to make Wolverine an Avenger! Ridiculous. That man is in enough books. What, do he and Captain America have old-dude super-soldier offs?
Anyway, my point.
"... At the center of the story is The Mighty Thor, a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans as punishment."
Why is he punished for starting a war by a society who sees war as the bestest thing ever? LIke to the point that the only way to get to the good afterlife is to die in battle, and when you get there it's eternal happiness fulfilled by... endless war?
If you are, as I was, curious about whether this was the actual Marvel universe Thor story, I asked one of my nerd friends to explain it to me.
This was his response:
"First off, best email I've gotten in months.
If I remember correctly, originally Thor was banished to Earth to learn humility. He was so proud that he was basically just irritating all the other Norse gods. Odin steps in and as a punishment sends him down to Earth to learn humility by placing him in the body of a crippled human doctor. In the book it wasn't for starting the war, but for the way he was acting. I'd assume they are using the starting a war excuse as an easier way to get into the story. Thor was kind of a hard book to read. Whenever he was in Asgard, they were constantly besieged by something. Asgard was under attck by trolls, giants, and everything else under the sun (the hardest part being almost all of them were of the nameless minion variety and Thor could take them out 5 at a time). They did some cool stuff with the other Asgardians, but it helped to know the stories behind them. When he was on Earth, he was fighting some of the lamest enemies. Absorbing Man, the Wrecking Crew, etc.
Surprisingly enough, I almost always enjoyed the Avengers book. JLA is amazing, but almost everyone there can hold down a solo title. I always liked the Avengers who couldn't. I read a ton of the 70s and 80s Avengers books, and they did a great job of doing the character interaction between the members. You got to see Cap training people in the Avengers mansion in their version of the Danger Room, Beast and Wonder Man pranking each other, and see people interact with one another in the base when they weren't fighting. They did a bunch of cool stories where the Avengers would go out on dates, have social lives and stuff like that. Not a lot of people read those old Avengers books, but they did what the X-Men did in that they really built the story behind them as well. But in all fairness...X-Men was better. I very much dislike the way that Avengers grew more and more into a knock off of JLA. As much as I like Spidey and Wolverine, I don't feel that the Avengers needs to be made up entirely of huge names.
Don't even get me started on Wolverine. I have so many issues with the way he's handled."
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