Talk about Thor. What are your thoughts on Donald Blake? Is he better as a villain, or has the poor man suffered enough?>Created by Odin as "Mortal Half" of Thor to teach him humility >After Thor learned his lesson, Blake was more or less obsolete and slept within Thor's soul>Odin creates a fantasy in which Donald Blake can exist in peace>Midgard Serpent enters the dream world, attempting to weaponize Donald but instead is somehow overpowered>Donald uses the portion of the Odin Force hidden away in his being to kill The Midgard Serpent, take its power, then kill everyone in the dream world. Donald essentially went insane living in a "lie">Escapes, tries to kill all gods and get revenge, eventually defeated. In a dick move Thor, for some reason, subjects him to the snake venom in the eye torture that Loki once had>Thor dies after the Utgard stuff, Blake is free, and both are now kicking around Midgard. Blake refers to himself as "The Serpent" and "The God of Lies"Was this the right thing to do with the character?
>>151870376He should have just been forgotten once Thor didn't need a "Secret Identity" like other superheroes.Everything after>Thor learned his lessonis garbage.
>>151870376Should of just chilled in Dream World and only reappear if Thor was getting too arrogant.
>>151870376Didn’t Thor take Blake’s soul to become mortal? The serpent has Blake’s appearance but isn’t really him? Or am I wrong with that?
>>151870456But he went insane in that world and had a natural existential crisis.>>151871672Blake technically doesn't have a soul, which is why he hates Thor currently. Donald killed the serpent and essentially took its essence
God bump. Cates's "Herald of Thunder" costume was his best new modern look since the JMS run
>>151870376I wonder if Ewing will have the Wrecking Crew menace the now Mortal Thor?
>>151870376I found out that in the Jurgens run they were originally thinking of bringing back Don Blake as Thor's alter ego, but instead decided to create Jake Olson as his latest form.Overall I think it was the right move. Maybe the "Thor the God vs. Thor the Man" theme would have had more impact with Don, but most of the things in this run were confined to this run anyway, so it makes sense to have Jurgens' own personal version of Thor's human side.Also I prefer full fledged Stan Lee Thor Speak with the thees and thous, but I admit that many of the best runs don't use this (like Simonon's) and for some reason writers today have trouble getting the syntax right, while in the 20th century they usually knew how.
