Over in Tim Callahan’s When Words Collide column at CBR, Walt Simonson explains why he wrote Donald Blake out of his Thor run so quickly:
My own feeling about that is that once we knew who Donald Blake was, and once Thor knew who he was, and once, presumably, Odin had revealed this secret, Thor’s time as a mortal should have been over. He’d learned his lesson. He knew what Odin had wanted him to know. I felt that, from that point on, Donald Blake was more or less a ball and chain around Thor’s leg. I mean, it could be done well, it was done well, but it didn’t make a lot of sense to me that Donald Blake was kept in the picture, once we knew what he was actually about.
There’s more to it – Go and read the whole piece, which is only the start of a chat with Simonson that continues next week – but it makes me wonder what purpose Donald Blake serves these days. Unless I’m entirely misremembering my Thor continuity – always possible – he was absent from the book from Simonson’s run all the way through JMS’ revival, right*? Beyond being a McGuffin to bring the character back, does Blake actually serve any purpose now – and if he does, what is that purpose? Isn’t Thor the one superhero – well, one of two, besides Captain America – who not only doesn’t need a secret identity, but doesn’t really gain anything by having one?
(* Yes, I know that Eric Masterson was, for all intents and purposes, Donald Blake 2.0 for awhile there, but still.)
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