Originally Posted by
Prof. Warren
JMS wrote barely a handful of Thor issues over ten years ago.
To try and compare JMS' Thor to Aaron's run is absolutely ridiculous.
JMS was on the book barely more than a year and it was in a much different marketplace at that.
Thor has never had the kind of sustained popularity that he has under Aaron so trying to qualify the success of the run by saying "well, it's popular but, you know, it's not really that popular" is just trying to ignore the reality that, according to the marketplace, Aaron has done very well by the character. Haters of his run can continue to bitter about it but at the end of the day, Aaron has a historic Thor run to his name.