A DRINK BEFORE THE WAR
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Jason Aaron’s run on Thor will end with the War of the Realms event. He and Russell Dauterman will do the main limited series that started being set up in Thor: God of Thunder #13. Aaron and Ron Garney reintroduced Malekith to Thor's world and since then the Dark Elf has built up an alliance that has been taking down the worlds of Asgard save for one-Midgard (aka Earth). Aaron says everything began as a huge Thor story but then he took over Avengers so it became a Thor and Avengers story. But at a Marvel editorial retreat VP Tom Brevoort asked, "Why don't we make this our next event?" And from there the entire Marvel universe became involved. Aaron says you don’t have to read his last six years on Thor to understand but the escalation begins in the first issue of War of the Realms where we see monsters show up in New York City. The story will take off to become Lord of the Rings set in midtown Manhattan with Captain America riding a winged horse and other Marvel heroes doing Thor stuff such as Daredevil gaining Heimdall's super senses. Dauterman has been working on the limited series for a while so he is expected to draw every issue.

It all begins with the six issue core mini-series WAR OF REALMS #1 which ships with five standard covers and is currently scheduled to arrive on New Comic Wednesday-040319 with a $5.99 cover price. As always it will be Alternate Reality "1st Day Sale"  priced at 25% OFF ($4.49!) on the 3rd and 15% OFF for the rest of its first week of release ($5.10!) while supplies last!