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On Thor, Oklahoma and the sweet writing of Roger Langridge

As an enjoyably pleasant comic comes to an end soon, I write a bit more about the first few issues of Thor: The Mighty Avenger now that the book has been collected.

To keep Thor in line, Langridge has Jane Foster acting as Thor’s guide.  In Stan Lee’s Thor, Jane was a nurse and the perfect unrequited girlfriend for Thor.  In Langridge’s Thor, she’s a modern girl who offers to let Thor stay with her but just on her couch, of course.  She acts like the classic damsel-in-distress who doesn’t have enough confidence in herself but, as she shows, she has more than enough strength to keep up with Thor and the dangers now present in her life.  Of course the two of them fall in love, even if they can’t see that fact for themselves.  Langridge plays it naturally; there’s no long soliloquies from either character bemoaning the lack of love but, thanks to Samnee, you see it in their eyes whenever they look at each other.  Thor may be the main character of this book but Jane Foster provides the romantic heart of it.

You can read the full review here.