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 himself would take m

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 the MCU (follo