Ethan Stranger

Before being best known for his decade-long run on Captain America, his Squadron Supreme Limited Series, and his 5-year run on Quasar (Wendell Vaughn), The Late/Great Writer, Mark Gruenwald was both writer and editor on the Mighty Thor Title (thus let’s explore that):     Teaming up with “ Ralph Macchio (not the Karate Kid Actor)”, the duo would team up to write several issues of Thor (including serving as an editor (for Thor #297 ) and a writer (for Thor #299 ) during Writer Roy Thomas’s Eternals saga, Picture: Top Left Corner ), then starring with Thor #300, both Gruenwald and Macchio would continue to work on Thor, within #301 (Picture: Top Right Corner), the duo introduces large pantheon of various gods from different mythologies (which would later serve as the inspiration for “Thor: Love & Thunder” , in a way). The duo would continue to work on the Thor (but mostly wrote the “Tales of Asgard” backup features within those issues), later on, Gruenwald h...

This episode of What if was kinda a “disappointment” (in my opinion), as originally I thought the plot of this episode was simply “What if…Thor was never banished to Earth”, which sort of follows, though they push it into more of a goofy-fashion (as within this alternate universe), Thor was “raised as an only child”, since Odin returned the young Loki to Laufey (Picture: Bottom Left Corner) , thus Loki ended up growing up looking like a “complete Frost Giant (Picture: bottom Right Corner)”.      The concept idea of Thor being raised as an only child seemed rather silly, thus causing him to throw wild galactic parties on earth (to be fair, I believe that the “ despicable LOUD Family causes more destruction than Party Thor’s Parties across the world), besides I felt like “Party Thor” was being a bit like Hercules from the original Marvel Comics (Pictures: Bottom Center), for he was the “true Party God” Though I’m not sure if we’ll see that side of Hercules we’ll see in ...