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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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If last issue was a cerebral character piece built around a formalist conceit... this one isn't. It's about PUNCHING! And MORE PUNCHING! And maybe a surprise guest from another book, too, making an entrance as only they can! There's just a pinch of existential timey-wimey angst, too - we're still in the Time Shenanigans Era of Venom, but I can reassure readers who've had about enough timeyness - and, indeed, wimeyness - that it's a plotline that's building to one hell of a head. -- Al Ewing

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I figured the best way to tell the secret origin of Meridius, the Evil Eddie Brock who's the time-warped mastermind behind everything, is through... a palindrome? What? Well, read the book and find out for yourself - it's definitely the most thumbnailed thing I've done in recent memory, and you'll figure out why that is when you get to the mind-bending midpoint! Who says this isn't the Venom age of formalist experimentation for its own sake, goo believers? -- Al Ewing

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When Editor Devin Lewis pitched me the 50-page oversized issue, my first thought was packing as much bang per buck into those fifty pages as possible – and who provides more bang than the Lord of Latveria? -- Al Ewing

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This is an unashamed fight comic. -- Al Ewing

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Standards and Practices asked me if the t-shirt had a hidden meaning. I want one, is the hidden meaning. -- Al Ewing

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This is why I like Marvel better than DC, honestly - DC knows its important, it's a classical tarot, all spread out, Marvel is the entrails of birds, random signs and portents. -- Al Ewing

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"This is an experiment I've been conducting for quite a while, mostly without even realizing I was doing it - building a cosmology quietly, in the background, linking bits and pieces as they came to me and dovetailed with my own interests in magic and religion. Not that I'm more than a dabbler in that regard, but one of the things I do best is make connections - I've had too much synchronicity happen to me and around me not to at least use it in the work, and I've been wrestling with agnosticism and the essential unknowableness of the divine for years. So it goes in the work - where else am I going to put it? It's made for some decent comics over the years, as well as a structure to work inside. There's something about a gigantic, constantly-evolving shared universe that makes it a very potent tool for this kind of exploration, and I'm not the first to think so."
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In which Eddie Brock - or what's left of him - returns to the other-dimensional demon playground of Limbo and completes a weird trans-temporal crossover I started off in an issue of THOR many, many moons ago. I'm joined for that by my old chum-in-crime CAFU, who old friends will remember from VALKYRIE - last time we created Mr. Horse, what abomination will we curse the Marvel Universe with this time? Buy it and find out, True Believer! -- Al Ewing

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A new character! A familial revelation! Invisible badassery! It's almost enough to wish that writer David Pepose was getting more than two issues of fill-in tying in to an event. Then again, we are getting Ryan North next issue.

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A little palette cleanser between runs, a Judgment Day tie-in.

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So, Dan Slott's final issue. Can he wrap up his remaining plot threads with any solution more dignified than 'a scientist did it'? Will there be enough room to also introduce Reed's half-sister, Professor Joanna Jeffers? And what's all this about the Molecule Man?!?!?

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[Jason Aaron] really wanted to get across the fun of being Valkyrie, and I was sort of on the other side of that. I was going, "Well... this is a book about death," and I think between us we kind of found this middle road, where it's sort of this mix of the two. -- Al Ewing

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As for the revolving door aspect... death has been seen as a journey for centuries. The only difference is that in the Marvel Universe, sometimes you get a return ticket. I'm not sure that makes it any less serious - the fact that sometimes in this reality you can return, perhaps changed and with strange knowledge, only makes the original voyage even more mythic in my view. -- Al Ewing

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There's so many threads in this mystery, so many different parts of Marvel you'll find secret connections. There's a lot of synchronicities and echoes in this, and threads between all of that, the big board. And I think what's going to happen is that readers, they won't have to go back and check the entire history of Marvel, but they're going to want to. -- Al Ewing

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I've always been happiest when I can get elbow-deep in the metaphorical, magical dimension of superheroics - the symbolic weight of these decades-old characters, whether in their original forms or combined into new iterations - and the Norse Mythology factor, along with the whole death aspect, adds a whole lot more interesting symbols and metaphors to play with. -- Al Ewing

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It'd be nice if there was someone there for you, when the time came. Someone who could take your hand and show you what's next -- maybe take you into it. Someone who was a little like a doctor. Someone who was a little like a super hero. Someone who would stand up for you and fight in your corner whether you were alive or dead or somewhere in between. -- Al Ewing

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The Immortal Thor #19 - "Tales of Asgard"

Venom #35 - "Time to Myself"

Venom #30 - "The Royal Rumble"

Venome #29 - "Palindrome"

Venom #25 - "The Butterfly Collectors"

Venom #21-22 - "Pages 2-19: They Fight"

Venom #20-21 - "All Out"

Free Comic Book Day: Spider-Man/Venom #1 - "January, 1940"

Venom #18: "Illuminations"

Venom #17 - "Temptation"

Fantastic Four #48 (Legacy #693)

Sue Storm is a Badass

Fantastic Four #46 (Legacy #691)

How to clear up left-over story threads in your new #1

Jane Foster: Valkyrie #5 - "The Sacred and the Profane, Part V"

Jane Foster: Valkyrie #4 - "The Sacred and the Profane, Part IV"

Jane Foster: Valkyrie #3 - "The Sacred and the Profane, Part III"

Marvel Comics #1000

Jane Foster: Valkyrie #2 - "The Sacred and the Profane, Part II"

Jane Foster: Valkyrie #1 - "The Sacred and the Profane, Part I"

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