True Stories of the 'Core Marvel Universe':
In the Marvel Universe, Thor -- the literal Norse god of Thunder -- was turned into a frog for three issues, including one where his magic hammer turned him into a 6'6" frog-man (er, frog-god), which had the side effect of chipping his hammer so that another frog (who had once been a man before he was cursed by a fortune-teller) could turn into a normal-sized frog-god, which came in handy when he had to team up with a teleporting dog and a sabretooth tiger to get magic gems back from an alien from Jupiter's moon who was in love with the living embodiment of Death.
In the Marvel Universe, Thor -- the literal Norse god of Thunder -- was turned into a frog for three issues, including one where his magic hammer turned him into a 6'6" frog-man
Well, yeah, but that was a great Walt Simonson story.
I have no idea why comics got such a bad rap.
I picked up the first
Chew
trade, and it's good stuff. I recommend it.
Okay, I buy some of that. But reading into Green Goblin's continued depiction as hermaphroditic because his lower half is obscured by a female form? That's just working at it.
Okay, I buy some of that. But reading into Green Goblin's continued depiction as hermaphroditic because his lower half is obscured by a female form? That's just working at it.
Yeah, but the "get me my coffee" scene was obnoxious.
As I said, I buy some of it. But it sabotages itself.
As I said, I buy some of it. But it sabotages itself.
I would say some arguments are less compelling than others, or a reach. I wouldn't say the thesis itself is undermined.
Thesis, no. Perhaps it's better to say the author undermines their own credibility by seeming out of control on some points. While it doesn't contradict other points of the thesis, I'm considerably less likely to give the author the benefit of the doubt when I spot some times I think they're clearly on message-driven crack.
