I think I'm on record as thoroughly hating and despising the "Asgardian Font" that Marvel policy requires to be used for Thor and anyone from Asgard.
I mean, what does it signify? Do Asgardians somehow sound different than everyone else? Are they speaking a different language that is being translated by godly means? Do the writers and editors somehow think that we won't know if a particularly character is Asgardian doesn't use this font--even in captions?!?!?
Grrr...to think that people go on jihads against Comic Sans yet raise not a single complaint against this abomination!!
Oh, but it could have been worse.
In UltraForce/Avengers #1 (1995), a powerful and slightly insane entity has captured the Soul Gems, and created a mash-up version of the Marvel and Malibu universes, which mainly consists of Ultraverse characters taking on classic Marvel roles.
So as mash-up Thor confronts mash-up Loki...
Ye. Gods. Abysmal font PLUS yellow word balloons. Fortunately, that never caught on.
Still, we should note that it took a multiversal crisis, an insane god and 7 Soul Gems to create a font worse than Marvel's Asgardian font...that's how bad Asgardian font is.
Grrr...
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I want to be generous and theorize that some of these guys are Walt Kelly fans.
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