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There are a few stories in Thor’s very early days when he’s acting as a Superman analogue, and there’s one panel in particular where the entire world is radioing for Thor to stop a missile or something, that’s extremely Silver Age Superman. With Marvel, the natural thing is to ground a hero by giving him problems, and we’re definitely doing that -- god-size problems, naturally, especially since he’s now the King of Asgard. But one thing we won’t do this time is show him having doubts and fears about his worthiness for the role of the Thunder God and the All-Father: the last couple of runs addressed those issues very well and over a long period, so I think those stories have been excellently told already. Instead, the main way we ground Thor is by getting inside his head, in a way we haven’t for a while. You’ll see how we do that when the time comes, but it does feel like a long-lost secret recipe for a fully relatable Thor. One weird trick, as they say. -- Al Ewing

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Anyway, some folks are being a little cynical about this, which is just how things are these days in a world where everyone fears the worst in big and small ways - honestly, though, I just want to make fun comics. Our true intent is all for your delight, as they say... --Al Ewing

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A lot of people were expecting me to go into body horror. But I have my DC book that I’m doing that is a horror book, which is the Green Lantern one, and this is pitched as something you can pick up and lose your troubles for a minute, open it up, have a wonderful time with this beloved cast of characters. Enjoy the gags and the comedy and the sincerity of it, and that’ll give you 20 minutes off, or longer, if you want to enjoy the amazing art. It’ll give you a little break from your troubles. That’s what we’re selling here. -- Al Ewing

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The fact that Thor is any kind of god confers a level of the unknowable upon him. There are things Thor can do that can’t be fully explained, that work on a magical and metaphorical level. So in that way, yes, he’s a god. And he’s a god you can tell superhero stories about, because you can say exactly the same thing about Superman. -- Al Ewing

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This is why METAMORPHO is the comic I take the greatest joy in the act of writing - my love for this particular tone and style is the root of my sense of humour, but it's also an honest and deeply held appreciation and I wish people understood that more. It's not a satire on old comics! I honestly think more comics should have thought balloons and chatty omniscient narrators, and one of my most sincere ambitions in the artform is to write the word "yvoorg" into a comic and have someone publish it! That chummy omniscient narrator calling you "Metamaniacs" is the closest you'll ever get to the real me! -- Al Ewing

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In some ways, it's a place the symbiote hasn't been in for a while... in others, it's a place Venom's never been in. Even as a hero, Venom was always the Lethal Protector... what does it look like when he's an honest-to-goodness hero? Does it look like the most ostentatious coping mechanism this side of Matt Murdock? -- Al Ewing

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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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