The two are nowhere near the same. One takes cancer and a person dying from it in intense pain. It saying when confronted with a cure and she says no. That some how this makes her noble and worthy. It would not , Why not say hey I do not want the cure but I know 10 people in a children's ward that would love so said cure. Crime and those whom step up to the plate to fight it are what comics are about. Some put on a cape others program computers and some stitch people up at hospitals and send them home.
Crime without the people that fight it would over flow and go on and on and you would get chaos or look at the middle east.
People just taking life when ever they wished and no price to be paid for so said life. It is one reason why most heroes have a no kill policy for they would quickly learn to just start killing and sooner or later it would be for Jay Walking. Yet another reason to wear a mask because some people prefer to not be thanked or given money when they save a life but to escape back into life again with nobody the wiser that they did a good and noble deed. Graphic novels are out in the world and some have no violence what so ever they simply are like a soap and it is sold to a select few be it animation or magni , or snoopy or Garfield and even some books by great Authors.
Cancer is a sore issue because when it kills it can take years or as most of us are aware it can take days and months as well. The people women up the street went into the doctor for meds for her knees. She is getting the meds filled when the husband says that morning she coughed up blood. The doctor admits her into the hospital and they run test. She is filled with cancer , not just a little bit but filled with it. She never leaves the hospital and her husband is a wreck. One minute she is fine the next they are saying Rest In Peace and the dirt covers the body and the people pray and you say , God take care of yours.
Some issues are not comic issues but if they do become comical in any way we would hope if they were offered a cure that the character would take it and not spit in the face of so said cure.
At the end of the day it is all just a comic book , just a story being told by a writer.
Cancer may be real but surely you do not have Thor , she Thor or whom ever running about tossing around lightning and saying...."Be thee of good cheer youngins, Thor has your back" The lightning strikes , The Thunder rolls and she knows that he Knows....
Topically they may not be the same, but they are the same in that to some people they are sensitive topics. Cancer is your hot topic. My uncle, a Vietnam vet who had lingering issues due to agent orange died last year. He didn't seek treatment at the end. He decided he wanted to spend his time with his family at home and not fighting what would likely be a losing battle anyhow in a hospital bed. While you may not agree with Jane's decisions (or Arron's as a writer) that doesn't invalidate them.
You bring up the chaos of the Middle East. I spent more then two years there. I got shot at, and at one point was almost blown up with an RPG. Should I go complain I don't like seeing Batman shot at because it reminds me of things I may wish to forget? No. If I don't want to see a topic brought up, I can skip the title. If you don't care for the events of a comic title, the simple answer is don't buy it. You're welcome to complain, but you're not going to get comics writers to shy away from topics like death, rape, cancer, or politics and I'm personally glad for that.
Cancer is a sore issue for you. Suicide for another. Violence against a third. By your logic, if writers couldn't write about a topic because it offended somebody, there wouldn't be a topic safe to discuss.
But in my perspective you also weren't able to understand or acknowledge the fact that this plot doesn't fit in Thor and Asgard, i think could fit other comics not related with the magic of the Gods but not Asgard for sure, i think it's a delicate theme that should never be mixed with magic in any story, from the confirmation moment that Jane was Thordis that i refuse to run any possible future scenario but Aaron has to be responsible for his writing on Jane/Thordis...
If the plot doesn't fit that is one thing. But lets look at it like this. Jane Foster is a human. Humans sometimes get cancer. The Asgardians have magical remedies. It all fits together pretty well.
At the end of the day, your "delicate theme" comments fall into the same school of thought as those of the poster I just commented to. No matter what you write about you're possibly going to piss somebody off. If we censor stories about cancer, what is next? Are we going to censor things until we can't have writers discuss anything that will resonate with the reader on an emotional level? If those are the type of comics you want, the Golden/Silver age is for you. Lots of reprints available.
Also, I still prefer "Wench Thor" to Thordis, but maybe that is just me.
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