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Preview pages from THOR: GOD OF THUNDER #2

Meet Young Thor, hero of the Viking Age.

WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN #20 cover by Nick Bradshaw

I've been wanting that "Strangest Heroes of All" blurb for a while now. Looks nice, right?

WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN covers for January

WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN #23, by Nick Bradshaw. Wolverine vs. Frankenstein's Monster!
WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN #24, by Ramon Perez. Date night!

THOR: GOD OF THUNDER #4 cover by Esad Ribic

Meet King Thor, the last god in Asgard.

A Note to X-Men Fans

I've had a lot of people on twitter this week calling me a monster. Even more than usual. For which I would sincerely like to say "thank you."

The angry words have all been in response to the ending of WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN #18, which features something terrible happening to one of our characters. Never before have I been so excited to have so many people telling me to go to hell. Believe it or not, I actually found it all rather endearing. Because it means you care.

As WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN prepares to begin its second year, I just wanted to take a minute to say how grateful I am to everyone out there who has embraced the series. The story of the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning obviously has a different sort of setting and tone than any X-Men book we've seen in a while. But I've been thrilled and overwhelmed by the response.

This is exactly the sort of comic I want to be writing right now. So thank you for allowing me to continue to do so.

WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN has always been about change. About school and parenthood. About growing up. About family, both the good and the bad kind. And as with any sort of family drama, there will occasionally be upheaval. That's where we're at right now. As we enter the second year of the series, we'll see the cast of the book shaken up a bit. We'll see new mutants, both good and bad. New teachers. New villains. New romances. New rivalries. But also the continuation of all those character arcs already set in motion, from Quentin to Iceman, from Idie to Husk, from Krakoa and the Bamfs to the all-new Hellfire Club. Nothing that is happening now is by accident. It's all part of the overall story. And it's all leading somewhere. I hope you'll stick with us for the journey.

So thanks again for all the hate mail. I truly appreciate it. Thanks for caring so much about a new character. In the newest and most oddball of X-Men books.

As always, thanks for reading.

My New York Comic Con Schedule

Friday·All-New X-Men panel from 12:15-1:15pm·Join the ReEvolution panel 1:30-2:30pm·Signing at the Marvel booth from 3-4pm  Sunday·Signing at the Marvel booth from 3-4pm

Daniel Acuña's THOR GOD OF THUNDER #3 variant

Me at MorrisonCon

All photos from Pat Loika's Flickr set.

Gosh Comics Signing

This, I believe, will be the first appearance in England by a member of the Aaron family since my ancestor Sir Beauregard Cumbercobb Aaron was forced to flee those shores or risk imprisonment over unpaid dormouse buggery fines. Let's hope the statute of limitations has passed on all that.

My MorrisonCon Schedule

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 
11:00 AMTHE EMPTY PAGE: MORRISONCON WRITERS ON WRITINGIt has been said that an author's greatest nemesis is a blank page. MorrisonCon's talented wordsmiths discuss their processes in transforming the empty page into the masterpieces that we have come to love. This group of comics innovators exposing the aspects of comics writing and the comics business that we as readers never get to see and delve into the depths of the creative process at your behest.

Featuring: Grant Morrison, Robert Kirkman, Jonathan Hickman, Jason Aaron, JH Williams III
 5:00 PMCREATION MYTHS: SCIENCE, RELIGION & MAGICJonathan Hickman and Jason Aaron are architects of worlds of science, magic and myth. Bringing their unique and perhaps conflicting perspectives together, these two authors sit down to discuss the brink of human understanding and beyond. Is Arthur C. Clarke's belief that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magicâ€� correct? Hickman and Aaron discuss how the theory holds up, and take an analytical journey through hard science to theoretical hypotheses to the work of the Gods. What inspirations are drawn from centuries of theological doctrines and the course of scientific discovery and how are they be applied to modern storytelling?

Featuring: Jonathan Hickman, Jason Aaron

6:00 PMTRIAL OF THE SUPERGODSAs day one comes to a close, use that last un-blasted brain cell to join our guests in some light-hearted trivial revelry. Master of Ceremonies, James Sime, will lead the festivities, taking our guests to task with your wiliest, wildest, or wackiest tests of trivia which can be submitted throughout the day in the MorrisonCon Salon. A perfect bit of madcap fun to cap off an intense day of creative energy!

Featuring: Everyone!


SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
11:30 AMPAGE ONE, PANEL ONE: A COMICS WORKSHOPJung's concept of the Collective Subconscious suggests that ideas live within all of us awaiting emergence. Participate in a collaborative comics workshop illustrating this theory facilitated by former Marvel talent coordinator, Bon Alimagno, in which you and some of MorrisonCon's guests team up to act as equal creative colleagues to bring one of these shared ideas to fruition under a Creative Commons license.

Work alongside with some of the brightest minds in comics. Create live art together.

Featuring: Jason Aaron, J.H. Williams III, Chris Burnham, Bon Alimagno, + special guests

I'll also have some signing times sprinkled in there as well. Other than that, I'll just be hanging around, enjoying the madness. I'm expecting to have a blast. Hope to see you there.