I read the brand new Mighty Thor #1 (Am I really going to file this with the "M"s and not the "T"s?) and it seems the Silver Surfer is back with Galactus. I go "Wha..?" as is my wont when things like that happen. Then we see Loki is a child again. That I got.

But then Thor and Sif are naked and in bed together and obviously not for the first time. Now I'm no prude but it does raise the issue if Thor and Sif truly love one another and Thor is the Prince of Asgard, why aren't they married? The Asgardians do uphold the ceremony and value it. Sif has been portrayed as Thor's true love for forty five years now. He's really had no other companion and is one of the few Marvel heroes NOT to have slept with the Black Widow, She-Hulk or Tigra! *ZING!!!*

Now we have this successful, entertaining and well-crafted film that once again has Thor involved with Jane Foster, though the comic book Jane and the movie Jane are two completely different characters but the movie also has Sif who gives the love-stare to the Thunder God. But Thor outgrew Jane during the Silver Age. In fact the very issue that she was written out of the series reintroduced Sif.

I can't see them trying to reunite Thor and Jane in the comics or split up Thor and Sif. They are forever linked in Norse myth so why not have them wed? If it doesn't work, there's always Mephisto or Ragnarok!

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  • Am I really going to file this with the "M"s and not the "T"s?

    I'm sorry, Phillip, but I've gotta tell this story...

    Many years ago, when David Letterman was still on NBC, he read the following letter on the viewer mail segment: "Dear Dave, Should I file Incredible Hulk under "I" for "incredible" or "H" for "Hulk"? Please help."

    Dave's response: "I know what you mean. I don't know whether to file this letter under "P" for "pathetic" or "L" for "loser."

    Sorry again. We now return you to your regularly scheduled discussion.
  • Not that Jeff has ever asked himself a question like that... ;)
  • "Oh, kettle, thou art black!"
  • I still file Amazing Spider-Man with the "S"s and New Avengers, Mighty Avengers and Dark Avengers under "A". Pathetic? Debatable, but I wouldn't ask a comedian for advise on comic-collecting! ;-)
  • Hey, nobody wants to read about a married couple.  Married people are boring.  So sayeth Joe Quesada, and who am I to argue?
  • There really isn't any reason, except maybe being married takes the edge off that brawling and wenching stuff that a he-man warrior god is supposed to do. Thor doesn't really do that, but at least the image is still there.

    It's not like he's being hit on by lots of chicks who could steal him away. It's not even like Superman, who WILL marry Lois, but doing so would really undermine a strong element of the series. The notion that Thor one day is going to marry Jane Foster is so ludicrous that not even Stan could make it plausible, and he jettisoned it early, probably once he realized that Don Blake didn't become Thor, Thor became Don Blake.

    Thor is a character I think could easily be married. His wife goes into battle, so it's not like he's gotta protect her from danger, and the tension of a married life and possibly having kids might add romantic tension that isn't much there.

    I am surprised to hear about that bed scene in TMT, as I thought that title was aimed at a younger audience, and that doesn't seem so necessary in a comic on the spinner rack for parents looking for a comic like the movie their kid just saw. But I guess that battle is long fought (I had it many years ago with Warren Ellis when he showed Thor and the Enchantress laying naked in bed together in the only Thor comic) and I didn't win it.

    -- MSA

  • I checked The Mighty Thor and it's rated T+ (whatever that really means). You may be thinking of Thor the Mighty Avenger but I never got that. I don't know why the bedroom scene bothered me, not greatly but enough. Perhaps it's the silliness of two characters being involved for decades, centuries, millennia and not being married. Odin, Balder, Volstagg, even Loki got married. Hercules has been married numerous times. Maybe I just think Thor is more tradtionally-minded.

    I had forgotten about the Enchantress but that was more stalking than romance. Every time Thor hooked up with her, she was mind-controlling him. I also forgot about Roy Thomas linking him with the Valkryie, which I thought was a mistake as it took away from her character.

    And Sif as warrioress didn't reach its fruitition until the Simonson era. Right before #337, she was another victim of Dracula, but then so was Storm!

  • ...it's rated T+ (whatever that really means).

    "9+ years old. Appropriate for most readers, parents are advised they may want to read before or with younger children."
  • You're right, I am thinking of Thor the Mighty Avenger as the younger-kid book. I still think it's a mistake to put that stuff into the regular comics line, especially if "T+" really means suitable for kids 9 years or older, which seems awfully young for a T+ code. I'd think that would mean older teens, at least PG-13 (like the movie).

    Do they really make a distinction in the content between 8 and 9 year olds? What is that, about 10 readers these days?

    I forget which issue it was, and it's been a good long time by now, at least 10 years, I'd guess, but the Enchantress scene was a full-page panel of Thor and Ench lying naked in a tangle of sheets. That struck me as excessive for a regular comic. Rating system or not, I'd still avoid that as the Thor movie was in the theater, but that's just me.

    I agree that Thor seems more tradition-bound than the others, but that could simply be because he's the hero. He doesn't seem to have so many romantic possibilities--more a Reed Richards than a Peter Parker--so marrying him doesn't really reduce that drama.

    Over in The Married Life thread in the MSA section, I said I didn't think Thor should marry, but that's more because he doesn't really have time for it. I don't know that a marriage to Sif would affect him that much, so it might not gather that much attention.

    -- MSA

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    Jeff of Earth-J said:

    Am I really going to file this with the "M"s and not the "T"s?

    I'm sorry, Phillip, but I've gotta tell this story...

    Many years ago, when David Letterman was still on NBC, he read the following letter on the viewer mail segment: "Dear Dave, Should I file Incredible Hulk under "I" for "incredible" or "H" for "Hulk"? Please help."

    Dave's response: "I know what you mean. I don't know whether to file this letter under "P" for "pathetic" or "L" for "loser."

    Sorry again. We now return you to your regularly scheduled discussion.

    The appeal of David Letterman, such as it is, has always escaped me.

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