DeFalco/Frenz Retrospective: Thor #436


 

Writer: Tom DeFalco
Penciler: Ron Frenz

Synopsis: Thor battles the Absorbing Man and Titania who are trying to reunite. 

Comments: His ironic thoughts show that Eric has a very Spider-Man like problem in his superhero life getting in the way of his personal life. Back in 1991, weren't cell phone like gigantic? 



With her "pay attention the next time a woman says no" lecture, Titania gives a very Thelma and Louise like speech. 




"I pity the fool..." I guess the Absorbing Man thinks he's Mr. T. 


Eric's stalker is still after him. 



This is some awkward exposition. "I slammed into him with the force of a runaway thunderbolt." 



Creel muses about Shakespeare. He probably is unaware that Titania named herself after a character in A Midsummer Night's Dream. 



Pretty Woman had just come out the year before in 1990. Which means while he was bound to Thor, Eric still had time to see it. I wonder if he saw it with Jackie Lukus? 



Eric comes home to find Hercules watching The Flintstones on TV in the same pose as he was watching them in Thor #409. Jackie Lukus wore a Fred Flintstone shirt in Thor #427. 








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