I think it is cool that comic book companies are making a strong effort to diversify their comic book heroes to better represent our own diverse culture. It's great to see that you don't have to be a tall,well built, straight, white male to be considered a superhero anymore and that females are breaking out of the traditional "damsel in distress" or "[enter well known superhero name here]girl" roles they have been forced to play through out comic book history. That being said, Marvel's decision to make Thor a woman is wrong and reeks of hubris. While Thor the comic book character has been a mainstay of Marvel for decades, Thor(as many of you know) is not a Marvel creation or recreation or "adaptation based on". He is a significant mythological, cultural, and even historical deity who was well established well before Marvel inked him on to their pages. To change his historical context just to sell more comic books and, even more important to Marvel at this point, make more movie money in the future is just arrogant. Making strong female superheroes in your comic books is great. Changing the identities of personages that you actually didn't create and had to "borrow" from history, not so great.
