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[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"
Oct. 11th, 2024 01:48 pmlaughing_tree
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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laughing_tree
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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laughing_tree
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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The Immortal Thor #11 - "God of Doom"
Aug. 21st, 2024 07:42 pmlaughing_tree
When people got started there was a lot of, from the cognoscenti, the critiquerati, were very much kind of like, “Ooh, I don’t know what this is. Ooh, this isn’t what I expected.” I’m like, yeah, that’s the point, that’s why it’s got "Immortal" on it. -- Al Ewing
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Immortal Thor #14: "The Wheel"
Aug. 14th, 2024 01:06 amalliterator
"You get these mind-ballads that are just, like, 200 panel pages with these different cosmic ideas on them. So I love that. I feel like a lot of what I do is trying to recreate the energy of the '70's at Marvel, where you've got a bunch of people who are exploring their own private trip and writing their own stuff out on the page, with the necessity of telling superhero stories almost as a secondary thing. I feel like most of what I've done for Marvel has been at least attempting to follow in that tradition. Because if you're writing about something, and it's not personal to you, then I don't really know how to make it interesting."
-- Al Ewing
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Venom #34 - "Exsanguination"
Aug. 7th, 2024 02:48 amlaughing_tree
What makes this particular mantle unique is that gaining or losing the symbiote is never the beginning or end of someone's story - just a new chapter in it. So I think it's not so much about feeling a push for a definitive version as it is about knowing when to end one chapter and start the next. -- Al Ewing
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Venom War #1: "Are You Ready?"
Aug. 7th, 2024 12:16 amalliterator
"Venom and his hosts have a degree of inherent unpredictability - not to mention antisociability - that makes for all manner of thrill-power, and also a fair amount of gritty character drama as various humans have to work out their relationships with this alien goo-beast. (And the many other alien goo-beasts he brings along for the ride.)"
-- Al Ewing
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laughing_tree
It's very difficult to tell a boring Venom story. Even when our run's been at its timey-est and wimey-est, something about the symbiote demands a degree of all-out action, wildness, and weirdness. -- Al Ewing
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alliterator
"Annuals and specials are a good place to do the sorts of tie-ins we're not so keen on doing in the main book - and so it is here, as Thor gets involved in the latest Infinity Stone shenanigans. Infinity Stones means the Power Stone, and that means only one thing - the Prince Of Power is back! And stupider than ever!" -- Al Ewing, Everybody Must Get Stoned
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shakaloolooThe Euros, Wimbledon, we're deep in sportsball season. For those bemused by the arcane rules of these activities, Al Ewing returns to 2000ad in this month's Sci-Fi Special to make things much clearer!
The conceit of this special is a mash-up of existing characters, imagining a universe slightly sideways from our own. Mr Ewing's entry combines the classic future sports strip Harlem Heroes with the titular character of his own Zombo serial.
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The conceit of this special is a mash-up of existing characters, imagining a universe slightly sideways from our own. Mr Ewing's entry combines the classic future sports strip Harlem Heroes with the titular character of his own Zombo serial.
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Venom War prelude
Jun. 20th, 2024 11:16 pmlaughing_treeThis is what we've been building to since the start of this wild and way-out symbiote odyssey—the fateful confrontation between father and son! -- Al Ewing
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The Immortal Thor #10 - "Getting the Ax"
May. 30th, 2024 10:17 pmlaughing_tree
Shooter had a couple of interesting perspectives on Thor that stuck with me—in his hands, Thor had a kind of otherworldly tone to him. When a gigantic superstorm was battering the heroes in their HQ, Thor was outside enjoying it, and at one point he broke Enchantress out of the heroes’ jail so they could have a proper Asgardian-to-Asgardian conversation. Jim Shooter put a lot of care into things like that—I remember the X-Men immediately broke off into a third faction to emphasize that they weren’t like the other heroes, the Hulk (with Bruce Banner’s brain at the time) was growing more aggressive every issue… it was no real surprise that Thor should come off as a little strange and even alien. -- Al Ewing
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DC Pride 2024 - "Hello, Spaceboy"
May. 28th, 2024 04:03 pmlaughing_tree
I was already writing a lot of queer characters and queer outlooks. I just didn't realize that I was putting my own outlook in there. It's a theme I keep coming back to. The being yourself, growing as yourself. This is stuff from before I made that leap, but it all feeds in. It was born from the questioning place. -- Al Ewing
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