It took a spot of digging, but I got all of this series, the
Omega issue, and the Daredevil-lead
War Scrolls from the dollar bins. There were like 21 tie-in issues for this month's issue alone; and I don't think I read any of them at the time! From 2019,
War of the Realms #5, "The World Tree is Burning" Written by Jason Aaron, art by Russell Dauterman.
Along with being a traditional big ol' crossover event, I think this was maybe Aaron and Dauterman's swan song to cap off their
Thor run. (Looking at Aaron's
last collection, there was maybe some
King Thor after that.) The Dark Elf Malekith and his forces had torn through the Ten Realms and established beachheads all over earth: he had a few familiar allies, like Ulik, the Enchantress, and Loki's father Laufey. Laufey had eaten Loki in an earlier issue, taking him off the board...for now. Daredevil has a surprisingly central role in this one: he had taken the sword of the injured Heimdall, which had expanded his senses to a godly degree. Here, he tells Thor that Yggdrasil the World-Tree was growing in the sun, and Thor tells him to nail him to it. (It's a Norse god thing, Odin had done it probably more than once!) I suddenly feel like they missed a trick, not giving DD the old spacey-face Captain Mar-Vell used to get with cosmic awareness!
Various bands of heroes team-up with surviving gods, to counter-attack: the Punisher also has a surprisingly large role, which would lead into his
Punisher Kill Krew mini-series. Spider-Man has a fun appearance here, with the corpse-eating Spiders of Hel, who seem to have taken a shine to him, to Spidey's chagrin. (Aaron writes a great crossover Spidey: he's not the main guy, but helps out and has jokes!) Jennifer Walters was a thicker, less-articulate She-Hulk at the time; which seems to be super-attractive to large chunks of Malekith's forces, but an issue of
War Scrolls points out she was seeing Thor at the time. And while several characters, including fallen Valkyrie
Brunnhilde, wanted her to live her life in peace, Jane Foster returns to the fray, picking up a hammer again.
For reference, this was about the same time as the start of the Krakoa era, and most of this series would've been on racks while
Avengers: Endgame was in theaters!
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I can’t even imagine just how balls to the wall tripped out Matt had to be when he got his sense leveled up to such a degree. Talk about sensory overload!
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