I saw a couple of other gripes about the obvious expiration date on this big change, and how that undermines the character’s worth. A few people were legit concerned that editor Wil Moss called this Thor the Thor and not a “temporary female substitute.” How could she not be a temporary substitute if He-Thor’s gonna come back eventually? After decades of reading these things, I’ve come to accept that words like “temporary” have a very different meaning in comics. Temporary still means temporary, it’s just used to differentiate between two different lengths of temporary. There’s the type of temporary used for one storyarc and then done with – like Punisher’s Captain America costume or Spider-Man’s “Other” powers – and the type of temporary implied when Moss says this Thor is not temporary. This Thor is permanent in no doubt the same way that Bucky’s Captain America and Doc Ock’s Superior Spider-Man were permanent. Both had lengthy stints in the headlining role and left a sizeable footprint on the comic book landscape; both of those runs will be remembered for a very, very long time, even if they’re both over now.