[Zend]

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Originally Posted by Zend

Marvel has a history of taking cancer stories very seriously. It's one of the few things that if a character gets it, they tend to not survive. Even the original Captain Marvel couldn't beat it. Though that does bring up an interesting point about diversity. It is actually really cool for kids and even adults that have cancer to read about a hero like Thor and what she does even with cancer. Yeah, it is called 'women in refridgerators' as named after Alex in Green Lantern. And it is a valid point about treatment of female characters.

That's why I think they may keep the hammer away from thor even after if she dies from it. But the valhalla aspect does seem like something they'd want to explore.

It's comic books. No one stays dead except uncle Ben and Bruce Wayne's parents.

Spider-woman has had the same costume since her debut years ago. She needed a new costume. The fact that it's actually designed to fit with her title's more spy-like stories and have form to function is actually a really nice touch. Spider-man has gone through several costumes since his debut, and you're complaining that Jessica Drew finally got one?

And yeah, the internet did have an uproar about how Spider-woman was depicted on that cover. With good reason too. That was some Liefeld level art perspective stuff going on in it.

Speaking of which, we need Spider-woman's new costume as a figure, Spider-Gwen, and Silk.

My gripe isn't with them changing her costume period, it's the costume they gave her and WHY they gave it to her. Spider-Man gets new costumes a lot, but they all retain the same basic design or theme as his original costume and they usually have a logical explanation behind them. Then he reverts to his iconic suit. They changed hers conveniently right after the whole Manara fiasco, and the design of it doesn't even make sense with the crap reason they gave us. If she wants to keep her identity a secret why does she wear the leather jacket as street clothes? Her new costume is literally just the jacket she zips up to reveal the spider logo, and the sunglasses that turn into a mask barely covers her face. Do people not recognize her jacket when they see her on the street? How about her face, of which only like 20% is hidden? It's just stupid, and almost as bad as the legendary "This pair of glasses and a collared shirt that doesn't hide how ripped I am makes me look completely different from Superman!" disguise.

It just reeked of PC face saving bullshit. That's why I think they copped out with the new Thor, and I think they'll come up with come cheap way to keep her alive - to avoid controversy. They're going to play way too safe, and I feel like the story will ultimately suffer for it. it also seems like she's here to stay given that they've announced her to be a main Avenger on the post Secret Wars team. I could end up being entirely wrong too, we'll see.

It would be cool to see Jane Foster turn into her own heroine of some sort without Mjolnir when all is said and done, and killing her temporarily in order to set the stage is a possiblity, but they're going to have to spoil their own story by making a press release to say "she's not actually dead, we swear!" to prevent the inevitably huge backlash.

As for how Thor became unworthy I wonder if it was something Thor in specific did, or since Odin can no longer wield Mjolnir either, The Watcher knew something about the enchantment on it.

Anyways, we do need figures of New Thor, Sam Wilson as Captain America, Gwen Stacey as Spider-Girl, and Kamala Khan as Ms. Marvel since they're going to be on the new Avengers team. Unfortunately they;ll have gimped articulation if we end up getting them.