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The brief for this one was a little different and took a long journey through various iterations to the page - but essentially, it was about introducing the concept of the Multiverse (and "616" as the Marvel Universe's multiversal number) to new readers. Naturally, the burden had to fall on poor ol' Spidey - representative of the Marvel Universe and also a big multiverse guy since all his Spider-Verse shenanigans. -- Al Ewing

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Thor takes yet another step closer to his inevitable doom. Can the thunder god escape his final fate when we're advertising it at the top of the cover? -- Al Ewing

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Lee and Kirby were not being subtle, and right now I'm not in a mood to be subtle either. If you're anti-LGBTQIA+ right now, you damn well know whose side you're on and I'm not interested in sugarcoating that... -- Al Ewing

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As to why we did what we did to Hal, I think Hal can take it is the short version. If Hal can't take it, then he's not the character I thought he was. But I'm sure if you're a fan of Hal, yeah, you know he can take it, you know he can take some lumps. He's a big enough character to take the knocks. -- Al Ewing

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People come up with these little fanfictions about what's going on behind the scenes and it's like, no, you're always way off. You're always way off. There's stuff I can't talk about, but there will come a point where I will be able to tell you exactly what editorial thinks of Paul, and you'll see it with your own eyes. -- Al Ewing

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Metamorpho finds out that everything he knew is... WRONG! 95% right, but still WRONG! In certain minor details! And as is traditional in these circumstances, the knowledge of his new, updated origin will cheese the fab freak off something fierce - so be there as he gets rude and rowdy as only Steve Lieber could delineate it! And only Lee Loughridge could color it! And only Ferran Delgado could letter it! -- Al Ewing

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My goal was to create a story that'd slide easily into the original Giant-Size if you squinted, and I'm pretty happy with how that turned out. -- Al Ewing

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I had a really good time kind of finding my level with Batman. I think the notes I got back for the first draft was that my Batman was a little too chummy and a little too quirky and a little too friendly. He needs to be a little bit spikier. And I was like, "Yeah, I get that." -- Al Ewing

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I wrote all of the Venom captions, and then Joe wrote all of the Spider-Man captions and Charles wrote Eddie's captions. And then we all collaborated a little bit on the OTHER CAPTIONS. -- Al Ewing

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We're pulling a little storytelling trick I don't think has been done before. There's a dose of interactivity to this one that I won't spoil ahead of time - don't worry, the comic will tell you how to read it. Whether you choose to fully bind yourself to Utgard-Loki's rules is up to you - if you go all in, it might be a long read for you... but then again, the reader is allowed to cheat. Thor isn't. -- Al Ewing

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The big thing here is that nobody knows what the Green Lantern is. In the regular DC Universe, Green Lantern is like a known thing all over Earth. Everybody sees that symbol, they know, "Oh, it's one of those space cops with the rings." No space cops, no rings, no lanterns. What is the Green Lantern? It's an enormous object that has fallen on a town... -- Al Ewing

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So we were coming up with all kinds of names, both for the red herrings and for the potential host, and we kept circling back to Mary Jane. She's full of story potential — she's one of the great characters in comics, full of so much life and complexity. As soon as we gave ourselves permission to treat a good idea like a good idea, we just got more and more excited about the possibilities. -- Al Ewing

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I have a habit, when I do gags and jokes, it's always with sincerity. Because the one style of humor I don't like and I sort of roll my eyes a little bit is the kind of wink at the reader style of humor. Like "the work I'm putting in front of you now, oh it's trash, don't take it seriously. We're going to wink at you so you can enjoy it, unlikely." It's pre-ironized. I can't be dealing with that. So Metamorpho is 100% sincere. -- Al Ewing

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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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Giant-Size Amazing Spider-Man #1 - "616 Day"

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Marvel United: A Pride Special #1 - "Who We Are"

Absolute Green Lantern #2 - "The Abin Sur"

All-New Venom #6-7

Metamorpho, the Element Man #5 - "...Too Many Metamorphos?"

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Detective Comics 2025 Annual #1 - "Batman, Do Not Solve My Murder"

Free Comic Book Day 2025: The Amazing Spider-Man/Ultimate Universe #1

The Immortal Thor #22 - "The Edge"

Absolute Green Lantern #1-2 - "The Black Hand"

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Metamorpho, the Element Man #5 - "The HQ That Walked Like a Man!"

The Immortal Thor #21 - "Two Did Enter"

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Metamorpho: The Element Man #3 - "The Man From J.A.V.A.!

The Immortal Thor #20 - "Into the Dark"

Metamorpho: The Element Man #2 - "The Woman From Yesterday!"

All-New Venom #2-3

The Immortal Thor #19 - "Tales of Asgard"

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