
Are those things, like the Power Cosmic, going to stick around as part of Thor' s powerset after this is done?Ĭates: That's a great question to walk into this story with – and a great question to keep in mind going into that horror story I mentioned. Thor's been building this arsenal of powers to take on Black Winter – a monumental threat. Nrama: That actually plays into what I wanted to ask you. Right now he's got the Odinforce and the Power Cosmic along with the powers that befit the God of Thunder – I don't know there’s many beings in the Marvel Universe that could top that. He' s probably the strongest Avenger right now -Ĭates: Probably? Probably? Get out of here with that probably!. Nrama: You mentioned the firepower Thor will have to bring to take on the Black Winter. I couldn’t be more excited for people to read it. It has some pretty shocking guest stars, and some of the most gorgeous art Nic Klein has ever done. I'm excited for #5, it will reveal some things about the Black Winter and its relationship to Galactus. You don't follow Jason with a quiet horror story – you follow Jason with Galactus falling in the middle of Asgard. But then I started thinking about it and I thought, following Jason Aaron, I had to come out of the gate swinging. It's gonna be really fucked up, really scary. I was going to start my Thor run with the story that will be our second arc, which is a horror story. It’s gonna require some big firepower, and there's none bigger in the Marvel Universe. And I immediately knew it had to be Thor. He said no one had, so I said "Well can I do that?" and he said yes, and asked what book I'd want to do it in. So I called Marvel Executive Editor Tom Brevoort – I was in the middle of outlining my larger epic seven-year Thor arc I'm planning to do – and I asked him if anyone had done the origin of Galactus' old universe, or what had killed it?
