{"id":16906,"date":"2014-07-21T01:06:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T06:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=16906"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:59:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:59:17","slug":"been-there-done-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/07\/21\/been-there-done-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Been There, Done That"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"COMICS-HEAD\"<\/a>Is it just me or is Marvel Comics<\/strong><\/em> suffering from short-term memory loss?\"Earth-X-5\"<\/a>Thor, Goddess<\/em> of Thunder<\/strong> was in Marvel Comics Earth X<\/em> series about 15 years ago.<\/p>\n

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Disney now owns Marvel Comics as well as the television network where the shocking news of a super-hero swapping genders was rolled out as if it was momentous news. Am I missing something? Didn’t this happen already?<\/p>\n

\"thor-goddess-of-thunder\"<\/a>The news of this new Thor was rolled out in 1997 in a special Wizard magazine supplement with some gorgeous pencil sketches by Alex Ross. I guess everything old is new again even if it wasn’t too terribly old. Either that or Disney desperately wants to add to their roster of princesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it just me or is Marvel Comics suffering from short-term memory loss?Thor, Goddess of Thunder was in Marvel Comics Earth X series about 15 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[335],"tags":[3232,3231,3229,308,2908,3230],"class_list":["post-16906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-earth-x","tag-female-thor","tag-gender-bender","tag-marvel","tag-thor","tag-thor-goddess-of-thunder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4oG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16953,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/07\/30\/thor-was-a-lady-before\/","url_meta":{"origin":16906,"position":0},"title":"Thor Was a Lady Before","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"July 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week I had showed you delightful readers Alex Ross' version of a female Thor from the late 1990s. 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