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THORThe Goddess of Thunder by Alex Horley
When THOR first appeared in Sharky it was the first time anyone had thought of the idea of a female thunder god.
I was playing with the idea that in mythology it was usually men who were the storytellers and it might have been a man who didn't want to tell his village stories of the gods where the most popular and most powerful might have been a woman, so he told the stories saying she was a man.
Then with that train of thought I realized that Thor and Odin would have been at odds as well. He would probably have been just as chauvinistic and been unwilling to give Thor the power of thunder unless her mother tricked Odin.
Any way, I'd like to tell more stories with her one day... And hopefully Alex will be free to draw them.
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if it comes to that, Thor had to disguise as a woman once, in order to retrieve his hammer. So did the hero that corresponds to him i.e. of brutish strength in the Mahabharata, Bhรฎma. I'm not sure about Hercules but there is obviously an Indo-European theme hereโฆ
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Yeah, I love how much the worlds myths and religions have in common with one another. It's then the slightly different cultures that change or add to the stories that make them different.
I've been developing a story based on Gilgamesh that I'd love to do some day.
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yeah but itsnt it a bit overdone these days to turn everything into a female or an ethnic character?
what if spiderman was black
what if thor was a woman.
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Actually when we did this we were pretty much the first to do a fully female Thor. Sharky was first released in 1998 with our female Thor in the first issue.
The reasoning was to play into the male dominated myths as not being totally true because men didn't want it to be known the most powerful of them was a woman. The reason we gave her a metal arm was because the only way to take the hammer away from her was to take her arm off and that's what they did to her.
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oh the reasoning is valid im sure. i just feel like society is inundated with a lot of..if not anti-male, than maybe diminish-male ideas?
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I see what you mean. There is a good argument for good stories be turning other ideas on their head. With so many different ideas floating around playing with myths and public domain characters helps find an audience faster than without.
In comics it is very difficult to create something new and establish it in only 20 pages. Using something that brings some name recognition helps get over that hurdle.
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Hahah... They're two sides of the same character. Max Carnage started as a male Thor and then I changed my mind when we did the actual Sharky comic. That's why Thor in Sharky has a robot arm.
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