I don't think Aaron has been anywhere near as consistent with what exactly "worthiness" means in his run, especially when he couldn't even write a convincing reason for why Thor couldn't wield his hammer anymore aside from Nick Fury whispering a personal opinion in his ear. I think there've been, like, 5-6 different reasonings as to what exactly makes one worthy in this run alone.
I also don't think Aaron has really written him as still being as worthy as he was before. Occasionally, but far from how he's depicted Jane as Thor and how she became touted as being the best Thor to ever Thor (trademark). Granted, she just acted a lot like how he used too. But contrast that with shirtless, swaggering, mead-obsessed Thor after he couldn't wield his hammer.
And I don't know if he's going to be better when Aaron hasn't even returned him to his prime yet. But I guess we have to have Mjolnir back for that to happen.
The same could probably be said for most creative team shifts after a long-running writer's run, but those tend to work out okay.I can't think of a single person more screwed than whoever has to take over Thor next year. Well, maybe future X-Men writers. Marvel better pull out a cocaine-fueled Donny Cates clone who speaks loose Shakespearean by default.
I just hope whoever the new writer is feels like a noticeable shift from Aaron.
Well, yeah, there's not a lot of major Jane stuff to hold up to and compare, just how he portrayed Jane versus how he portrayed Thor.
I think the attractive novelty helped a lot, especially since the fight with cancer was made a big part of Jane's character in that run, but the feminist and empowering portrayal of the character was probably also a big part of it.Also, Jane's storyline had an attractive novelty to it. First, based on the mystery of her identity and secondly based on her battle with cancer. There was the possibility that her story would be finite, which everyone knows Thor's never will be.
I think there's enough precedence for writers who are big enough that just attaching their name to something is pretty much a guarantee of strong sales, especially compared to other writers. Being on a big-name book helps too.I don't think any writer can guarantee success on name alone. They sell based on the quality of the work. When a book sells strongly for years on end, people aren't picking it up because of the name on the cover. They're picking it up because they the work itself is compelling.
If that writer isn't delivering, sales are eventually going to fall off.
Quality is still a factor to some degree, but it's not the only one.
Aaron's Thor run has had it's moments but I really don't like how Thor has been "dumbed" down for lack of a better word.
And it's more than just being dumbed down. Thor has been very philosophical at times but there is no hint of it in this latest run.
Thor asks of his worthiness but has made sacrifice after sacrifice not only to save Asgard and Earth but the entire universe.
I cannot see how he thinks himself unworthy. It can't be a matter of praise or worship because Thor has never sought that(Young Thor excluded).
This Thor does not seem too bright.
You're welcome buddy. I also made a couple of threads about the character derailment of Thanos here https://community.cbr.com/showthread...huggish-Thanos and here https://community.cbr.com/showthread...-Thanos-Rising
I had forced myself to forget Thanos Rising ever happened until you reminded me. That was an absolute disgrace and Aaron should not be allowed near any cosmic/god like characters at all.
To be fair, he isn't the only one to absolutely massacre Thanos; even Hickman used him in a ridiculous manner in Secret Wars.
We're forgetting about the character assassination of Death? Seriously, she doesn't talk to Thanos for the entirety of Infinity Gauntlet, but she chats up a storm when he's young. What the hell?
I agree. Aaron is one of those writers that should stick to hard boiled street level characters like Wolverine, Punisher and Daredevil.
As for Hickman, it's really sad. His Cosmic stories with the Avengers and Fantastic Four is amazing but he regressed Thanos into the edgelord cousin of Mongul. Although he was kind of forced by editorial to write Thanos that way.
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That's still a character-assassination. Death normally doesn't talk to Thanos because she's a force of balance, kind of a cosmic hippy. In trying to kill everyone before their time, Thanos is being clueless about what she really wants. He basically tries to impress the hippy by acting like a kill-happy Arnold Schwarzenegger character, she wants none of it. So yeah, the idea that she's a tease is a denigration of her character.