Lessons From Behind The Counter At A Comic Book Store

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By Lidia Jean Kott

Jason Aaron, who writes the Thor series for Marvel, says the female Thor is here to stay.

BROADCASTING---When the news broke that Thor, the hyper-masculine thunder god, had become a woman, my Twitter feed exploded. But like any good journalist, I wasn't about to let total ignorance keep me from chasing down a good story. I saw in Marvel's press release that Jason Aaron was writing the new Thor — so I decided to give him a call.  I clearly needed to find out what the experts thought. When I first entered Fantom Comics, here in Washington, D.C. I left Fantom with a stack of titles — Thor, Ms. Marvel, The Wicked + The Divine — my first comic books ever. All of them have (or will soon have) female leads. While they are all about superheroes who have super strength, they're all also about fighting with your family, sometimes feeling alone and inadequate, and trying to figure things out — in short, they're the opposite of boring. I read them all in a week. [link]