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From: dwc@hou2b.UUCP (D.CHEN)
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Subject: thor #355
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Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 22:48:26 EST
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so what do people think of thor #355?  i think that simonson has
managed to write some wonderful adventures for thor and the rest
of the asgardians.  i've even found myself feeling a little choked
up while reading the last three issues.

the issue does however, bring about alot of inconsistencies with
the celestials storyline presented way back in ~290-301.  namely
the origin and nature of the asgardians and earth's other gods.
simonson came up with a nice way to explain away the origin of
odin and the asgardians presented back then (i didn't much like
that origin anyway) but it doesn't explain all the other stuff.

since simonson's presentation of the asgardians is much closer to
the norse gods of mythology than another other writers, does
anyone out there know what norse mythology says about odin's father
and grandfather?  i seem to recall that the first of the line was
born from ice and something from a giant cow but i can't remember
the details.  that seems to fit the description that tiwaz (alias
buri) gave of the place of his birth.  was tiwaz another name for
that first god?  what is norse mythology's version of the fate
of buri and bor?

the only thing that i didn't like about the story is that thor
wasn't smart enough to figure out that tiwaz was a relative of
his father.  just how many sky gods have there been?  i think
that all sky gods must be related (zeus was able to hold thor's
hammer back in a thor annual somewhere).

danny chen
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