Entries tagged with creator: al ewing

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The Immortal Thor #19 - "Tales of Asgard"

This one's an experiment that came into being almost as soon as I started batting around a "Tales Of Asgard" issue – something that would act as a whistle-stop tour through the current status quo for Asgard and the Asgardians before the big explosions go off later in the year. I mentioned to Editor Wil Moss that we could do it as a bunch of one-page vignettes with a new artist on every page... and once I'd said it, I couldn't hold back from attempting it. -- Al Ewing"

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Metamorpho: The Element Man #1 - "Mister 3, the Triple-State Man!"

Something I tried to do in 2023 and carried over to 2024 was build on previous successes, but now I'm wondering if that was a trap - if all the critical and commercial success I've had in my life just built a cage for my future self made of the expectations of readers and employers. What if I cared less about hitting previous highs again - or what others rate as the highs - and more about just being happy in myself and in my work? What would that look like? Well, it'd probably look like METAMORPHO... -- Al Ewing

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The Immortal Thor #18 - "To Be Continued"

"Superhero" -- I'd say that to Thor, that's just being a good citizen of Midgard. We get into this a little in the first issue. For a living myth, Thor is a very friendly and approachable guy. If you come to him with an injustice, he will help make it right because that's what he does, but that's who he is as a person, not some vow he made or some job he's signed up for. -- Al Ewing

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Cruel Kingdom #1 - "Friendly Visitors"

EC Comics is back, and they reached out for me to do a story for them. I took the opportunity - ably assisted by Kano delivering some lovely fantasy art - to once again don my comics historian hat and embrace the EC "voice" as I remembered it from those classic suspenstories of old. -- Al Ewing

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The Immortal Thor #17

I kind of approach comics writing like a comics historian. So I'm sort of thinking, when I write Thor, I'm thinking about Thor through the years. Recently, we just started a story where we bring back as many of Thor's original villains as will fit in the... you know, not the communists. There are a lot of communists, we can't really include them, but Radioactive Man is here. He can represent all the other communists. Yeah, it's Radioactive Man, it's the Cobra, Mr Hyde, it's the Grey Gargoyle. I was thinking, yeah, let's take all of Thor's early foes and turn them into a team, and have them take on Thor and have them win a little bit because these were people Thor dealt with in a kind of done and one, usually very simply, after having solved the problem of the week. But like, yeah, no, actually if you put them all together, they're a big threat. You can make them a pantheon of Earthly gods. -- Al Ewing

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All-New Venom #1

Who's the new Venom?

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Venom War #5 - "And That's the Bottom Line"

There can be only one. All the main Venom hosts are involved in this to one degree or other, but only one host will get to be the Venom of 2025. -- Al Ewing

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Venom War #4 - "Every Man Has a Price"

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The Immortal Thor #16 - "Fire and Stone"

We're not planning to treat him well, but in a loving way. In a way where Thor can take it, he's Thor. I treat heroes badly because they can take it. I'm going to knock Thor around a little bit, but you're going to see who Thor is as a result. You're going to see the core of Thor. -- Al Ewing

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Venom War #3 - "Say Hello to the Bad Guy"

When it came time to do the major plotting and conceiving work on this enterprise I was very much down a wrestling rabbit hole as a result of a heady mix of Orange Cassidy, the Golden Lovers and COVID-19 keeping me confined to quarters to stew in a vibrant soup of this stuff. I've since escaped that particular obsession but it's all over this book, as things start dramatic and get... dramatic-er. All this and Peter Parker too! -- Al Ewing

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The Immortal Thor #15 - "Return of the King"

Jason [Aaron] stopped me from killing him last time. I was like, "And then I’ll kill the Minotaur," and Jason’s like, "Don’t do that." -- Al Ewing

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The Immortal Thor #14 - "The Wheel"

So hopefully, we have a new status quo at the end of this where Loki isn't binary good/evil and if that switch flips, it's a terrible tragedy, but more a situation where Loki can function as a villain, which many writers would like to have back, and they can do that without a huge regression. Loki can even put on the old costume if you want! Go full nostalgia, knock yourself out—there's just a potential in-world reason now that doesn't break everything. -- Al Ewing

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The Immortal Thor #13 - "The Vengeance of the Gods"

Thor's the star, but Loki has a vital role as a kind of sidekick who's also a recurring problem, and to do that we had to make a couple of tweaks. Basically, we had to finally answer the question of "Is Loki friend or foe?" and the answer is "Yes." Rather than treat "When will Loki betray everyone?" as a scary question looming in the background or as something that won't come up—which can only end in slightly disappointing ways, as either Loki turns Full Evil and loses or his growth or they were, once again, Nice All Along (Or ARE They????)—we treat it as just part of the mythological condition. -- Al Ewing

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Venom War #1-2 - "To Be the Man, You've Got to Beat the Man"

Not that I wasn’t enjoying myself back in [Venom #1], but in a different way, I started to really have a lot of freewheeling fun with it, to the extent that Venom War, which — back when me and Ram were planning it — was originally going to be this great father-and-son tale. And it is still that, but it’s happening in a wrestling ring, because Venom demands some degree of craziness and wildness and fun. -- Al Ewing

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Venomverse Reborn #4 - "Five Questions, Part Four"

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Spider-Man: Black Suit & Blood #3 - "Whatever Happened to Master Blood?"

[Secret Wars] was our introduction to Marvel Comics. I mean, for a whole week I thought Colossus had, like, psychic powers because he was clutching his head like that when Spider-man webbed it up, and I thought, “oh, he’s using his brain power.” -- Al Ewing

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Giant-Size Thor #1 - "In Media Res"

Over the next few months, we're going to be drawing on classic Thor tales of old, and this is part of that - but for this one-shot, we're also calling back to a classic Herc tale from his first mini-series. (I think it's the second one that's set in the future - this one had Frankie Raye being herald of Galactus, contemporaneous to when she was, so I assumed it was set in the Marvel present and just set in space. Am I wrong? If so, well, that's why no-prizes were invented - it does readers good to have a nice continuity snarl to chew on occasionally, makes for strong teeth and bones.) -- Al Ewing

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Venomverse Reborn #3 - "Five Questions, Part Three"

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Venomverse Reborn #2 - "Five Questions, Part Two"

I’ve come to embrace a lot of the fun of Venom, in that Venom is just a really fun character. The character brings a certain degree of chaos with him. When I started coming out of Donny Cates’ run, me and Ram V had this clear idea of epic scope, an epic time-travel story with elements of [Michael] Moorcock in there, The Dancers at the End of Time, things like that. But the more I wrote Venom, the more that wild fun of the character started creeping in. -- Al Ewing

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The Immortal Thor #12 - "The End of All Songs"

So obviously, the most interesting familial relationship is Thor/Loki, and we'll naturally be getting into that, but what's also really interesting is his distant relationship with all his other family members. What would it look like if all Odin's children were in a room together? I hate to say it, but that sounds like a story. -- Al Ewing

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