I still don't understand Oeming's reasoning. In his mind it was "unfair' for Hercules and Thor to be dead equals in hand to hand combat as Thor has all his other powers etc. On top of it all, Thor has broken out of nearly the exact same hold thrown by Hercules in the past. Idiotic but I'm fine with it, as long as it doesn't catch on. I read on another board that the fight in Blood Oath was intended to be their second actual fight. So they've had a hell of a lot more battles without that slight superiority coming into play.
Hercules defeating Thor using his slightly superior hand to hand skills is about as likely as Thor winning by showing superior stats. It'd be a stalemate between the two for the most part in a comic.
Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
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