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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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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 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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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Roxxon's hostile takeover of Marvel Comics is ~~the worse thing to happen to the industry in decades~~ just what comic books needed! I was ~~horrified~~ jazzed beyond words when I saw how the so-called Roxxon Entertainment Standards Committee had ~~gutted~~ improved my work, methodically stripping away every iota of ~~poetry, symbolism and metaphor~~ junk no one cares about. The result is a comic that can best be described as ~~an act of unforgivable violence against the medium I love~~ a rollicking good time for the whole family! ~~May God forgive Roxxon, for I never shall!~~ Make Mine Roxxon! -- Al Ewing

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The God Who Could Be You? I think Thor is the most successful example so far of the “Hercules In New York” archetype, the mythological figure who has to balance the modern world and the world of myth, with one foot in both. If Hulk is where humanity connects with the monster inside, Thor—originally a human with a god inside them—is where humanity connects with myth. Thor is our guide to a world of wonders, and in turn we get to see our own world made wondrous through his eyes. In that way, he’s very much Hulk’s opposite number, which is what makes this a sequel of sorts. -- Al Ewing

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alliterator

"There are very few characters I think are completely irredeemable and he is one of them. I think at one point there was, in his origin story, there was a sort of a moment where...he might have gone along another path, but...I think, as he is now, I don't believe there is any good in Dario Agger at all. I think he is a monster inside and out. The fact that he can chose his form and chooses to be a monster? I think that's when people tell you who they are, believe them."
-- Al Ewing

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"Hulk was horror and tragedy but Thor tacks more toward fantasy and hope. Bruce Banner is fractured by his origin, going through a hell of his own making to gain the power of a monster — Don Blake becomes the person he truly is inside, and in so doing, gains the power of a god. (An unconventional god! Long hair in the early '60s was more of a flex than we might credit, though I do remember Jane fantasizing about giving him a haircut.) To put my biblical hat back on for a second — if IMMORTAL HULK was the Old Testament, IMMORTAL THOR is the New Testament."
-- Al Ewing

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Doors are indeed opening, buried secrets are waiting to be unearthed, and ancient gods — elder gods, if you will — are coming to bring trial and sorrow to Earth, Asgard and Thor personally, and he’s going to need to be his absolute highest self to face them. And even then, he might not make it through. The omens are sinister. The storm is at the gate. -- Al Ewing

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I want to take another swing at that ball, and this time, I don’t just want to knock it into the outfield, I want to hit it right out of the park and stroll calmly around the bases. I want to write something that goes as far and as hard and as powerful as [Immortal Hulk] did, to give a similar experience to the people who supported that book and supported me through it and took something deep out of it, but with the benefit of experience. -- Al Ewing

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