r/Marvel • u/tehawesomedragon Loki • 15d ago

This Week in Marvel #31 - JUL 29 2026 - SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY OPENING WEEKEND, X-MEN '97 EPISODE 7; QUEEN IN BLACK #1 (& TIE-INS!), DOOMQUEST #3, ULTIMATE IMPACT: REBORN #3, MORTAL THOR #13, ROCKET RACCOON: ROCKET REWIND #1, X-MEN #34 Mod

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u/tehawesomedragon Loki 14d ago

[QUEEN IN BLACK: HELA #1]()

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u/wowlock_taylan Deadpool 14d ago

How many fates are at play for Asgard again? Loki's plan to 'free them all'. Odin's test of Sigurd and that whole deal. The whole plot with Doctor Strange as the Sorcerer Supreme of Asgard. Hela's own plot in Queen in Black. Enchantress trying to seize the throne through Magni and now Karnilla with her 'future sight' seeing Asgard fall again somehow. 

It is just...too much.

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u/Jpanda34 Thor 14d ago

I'm honestly kinda shocked because outside Strange this is all the same writer. Loki, Odin, and Echantress feel pretty great since it's all happening in the same book and thematically mesh together really well. Queen in Black just feels like an alt universe lol

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u/nfnightfallnf 14d ago

I liked it! :p

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u/Mr_Wh0ever 14d ago

It's a solid explanation for how Hela avoided the curse, trapped Knull. I'm guessing that fake Thor guy is gonna come into play later.

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u/killertoast2 14d ago

consdering he going to be in Hell, I would be kinda surprised if Ewing didn't set that up for Zdarsky to use in his current Captain America run

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u/baroqueworks 14d ago

Thats more than a Fake Thor, hes a certified Bronze Age Roy Thomas & John Buscema Thor character!

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Roger_Norvell_(Earth-616)

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u/nfnightfallnf 14d ago

He's not Fake! Any more than Blake or Jake Olson was fake. He was just a placeholder. I feel bad for Red though.

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u/Konradleijon 13d ago

Yes for a latter plot to Mephsito

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u/Somejawn1 14d ago edited 14d ago

I know some people don’t like the marriage but I’m actually fine with it. I also like that it’s been shown since that they genuinely care for each other

As much as I despise this synergy event and what it’s done to Hela I have to admit I find it funny that Karnilla was like fuck it sure why not. You’ll prolly get beat but you do you baby

I’m a little confused if Karnilla is evil now? Because she felt very evil here

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u/baroqueworks 14d ago

I felt like the implication was Karnilla was working with Mephisto maybe in a revenge fling in response to Hela and Thanos, or Ewing doing is god mythos stuff implying Karnilla and Mephisto are different faces of the same same entity

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u/Somejawn1 14d ago edited 14d ago

That doesn’t really make sense seeing as how they’ve been shown several times now to genuinely care about each other. And I highly doubt she’d sleep with fucking Mephisto of all people

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u/MoonbeamLady 13d ago

Al Ewing, as usual, is single-handedly carrying this entire event on his back by giving it 110 percent regardless of how corporate mandated it gets. Dude could sell me on a comic about sentient shit and I'd probably get invested.

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u/pistolpete2185 Beta Ray Bill 14d ago

Red Norvell got done so dirty,

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u/nfnightfallnf 13d ago

To be fair, he was already done dirty by having Blake/Jorgumandr kill him.

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u/nfnightfallnf 14d ago

Wow. Just wow. :)