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Friday, July 06, 2007 

Under Straczynski, Mighty Thor could become a mighty bore

But of course, it's not like Scripps-Howard News Service, in all their fluff-coatedness, are going to admit that it's possible. J. Michael Straczynski is writing the latest Thor relaunch, but his work on Fantastic Four was so awful that it wouldn't surprise me if his work here were just as underwhelming, if not more so. His "Sins Past" story in Spider-Man was so bad it needs no further mention.

As for Thor, seems they've made a costume alteration here:
Thor's outfit has been altered a bit, thanks to writer J. Michael Straczynski and artist Olivier Coipel. Simons describes the new look as "warrior's garb -- something that a warrior might wear into battle."

Coipel added, "JMS wanted something closer to the 'Lord of the Rings' designs, without getting too far away from the classic costume. So I interpreted it as something not too 'superhero,' but more 'heroic fantasy.'"
Even if it's not too far removed from Thor's classical outfit, that doesn't mean it's good. What if the battle armor he wears looks clunky? And yet, that wouldn't be anything compared to what "adventure" stories JMS writes, which could be full of his own biases, or contempt for the source material, as he showed in the two other Marvel books he wrote. With that in mind, what's the use in bothering about this new volume of Thor? I should hope that by now, JMS's popularity as a writer has waned.

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