Post Seventy: Civil War #4, The Return of "Thor"

Well, so much for an "even-handed" "no right answer" depiction of the conflict, but I digress from the main point.

So they cloned Thor, huh?

Well, let me be the first to say "congratulations" to the geniuses over at Marvel for totally fucking up the Marvel Universe through this ridiculous Civil War. I mean, let's look at what these morons have done:

1) Un-masked Spider-man, destroying one of the most compelling aspects of one of Marvel's greatest characters;
2) Turned Captain America into a completely irrational madman. Who can respect this guy now?;
3) Turned Iron Man/Tony Stark into a caricature of liberals' most vile thoughts regarding conservatives and the Iraq war;
4) Thrown Reed Richards way off the deep end as far as his preoccupation with all things scientific and rational at the cost of his marriage to Sue.

And now, as if the foregoing wasn't sufficient, they have decided to go back to cloning.

And they cloned Thor.

They cloned an Asgardian God.

Through strands of hair Stark conveniently saved since "the first meeting of the Avengers." ( I suppose if he had picked them up at the next-to-last meeting of the Avengers with him and Thor in attendance, we wouldn't appreciate his foresight as much.)

You know, after the lead-in from the Fantastic Four run regarding the re-appearance of Mjolnir (and God help Marvel if they try to say that the clone is using the real Mjolnir), there were any number of possibilities to bring Thor back into the fold. They could have had him just show up a little later in the series, knock everyone on their ass and tell everyone to knock the shit off and go after the common enemy (i.e., the villains who are hunting heroes down). They could have had him pull a "Thing" and go neutral. Or they could have left him out of it and just focused on Donald Blake getting back to being Thor.

But they went with a cloning.

My God. Does Marvel not have any memory of the Ben Reilly debacle? How unbelievably stupid are these people? They cloned THOR!!!! My only guess is that they just really wanted to show Thor kicking the shit out of the rest of the Marvel Universe (well, I won't blame them too much for that aspect), but didn't want to turn the real Thor into a government agent.

There is a slight saving grace: it has GOT to turn out that the real Thor comes back, via Donald Blake, and puts a quick end to this clone and war. Nothing else will do.