Sorry if I sounded like you newer readers don't count, of course you do, you're purchasing just the same as older fans, hell, I am a "new" fan as well if we count in time, but what I actually meant, more than time, is knowledge on past history/runs/character traits from Thor and his supporting characters, including worldbuilding over the course of his history, things that have been massively changed to accomodate to the story Aaron wants to tell, and I think that if you need to fundamentally change a character and all the things that define him and surround him, then you just shouldn't be writing that character.
https://www.marvel.com/articles/comi...inkId=63619104
Here's some cool links from the war of the realms event thread
"The Marvel EIC Chair has a certain curse that goes along with it: it tends to drive people insane, and ultimately, out of the business altogether. It is the notorious last stop for many staffers, as once you've sat in The Big Chair, your pariah status is usually locked in." Christopher Priest
And I respect that, but Aaron is building on previous runs and what we have seen before. The more extreme parts of Odin's character, yes, but those were there.
Odin did cheat on his wife, Odin did ignore his other children, Odin did manipulate Thor and not respect his decisions, Odin did abandon Bor to get power for himself.
And while the alcohol thing is new, it's not exactly new to show Asgard as being a Viking pleasure palace that served tons of alcohol.
Wasn't most of that stuff retroactively added to modern Odin? Aside from manipulating Thor.
I'm not even for a "perfect" Odin, but at least one that feels like he deserves the rank of All-Father and lord of Asgard, which I don't feel like Aaron's Odin has ever believably portrayed.
I get that it's probably realistic for gods, especially norse gods, to partake in the pleasure of alcohol but I don't think we need so much dialogue and page space dedicated to it. Especially with Thor himself. It's like he can't shut up about mead.
Thor is like a drug addict with hammers.
It's like when a son is asking his father or mother to give him a loan so that he can sate his insatiable addiction for drugs.
In this case, hammers.
Very sad.
Well, his being a horn dog with Gaea has been around for a while. And he did ignore Baldur and Tyre and Sif was introduced into comics because Odin was trying to get Thor away from Jane. And he did tell Loki repeatedly that he was his less favored son. Repeatedly.
Don't do hammers, kids.
my homie odin "sealed away an entire species as punishment and by the time i freed them i created the eternal punishment of the gods from their rage and also i can't stop exiling and punishing my kids and also humans are worthless ants pass the mead" borson
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