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Old Goldilocks undergoes an identity crisis in The Immortal Thor

- STEPHEN JEWELL

TWO YEARS AFTER HE wrapped up his stint on Immortal Hulk, Al Ewing is taking on another everlasting being: Marvel's resident Thunderer. Partnered by artist Martín Cóccolo, he promises that The Immortal Thor will be a vastly contrasting experience to his run on the Green Goliath.

"It's got a thematic connection in that I'd like it to share a few of the more esoteric themes here and there," says Ewing. "Tonally, it's going to be a very different kind of book, as where Hulk was a horror book, Thor is a fantasy book first and foremost. So there's an epic quality I'm trying to bring to it, mixed with an essential optimism - which might be the hard part as it's hard to be optimistic these days. But the epic comes to Thor very naturally."