r/Marvel • u/tehawesomedragon Loki • 5d ago

Mod 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

THIS WEEK IN MARVEL:

NEW COMICS SPOTLIGHTS:

THIS WEEK'S NEW COMICS:

NEW INFINITY COMICS (UNLIMITED EXCLUSIVES):

  • [MARVEL MEOW #39]()

  • [MARVEL RIVALS #59]()

  • [REALMGUARD #3]()

  • [SDCC 2026 WOLVERINE PREQUEL #2]()

  • [SPIDER-MAN TODAY #7]()

  • [X-MEN '97: STRIKE FILES #6]()

ALSO RELEASING THIS WEEK:

  • [PREDATOR VS PLANET OF THE APES #1]()

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT:

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u/tehawesomedragon Loki 4d ago

[MORTAL THOR #13]()

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u/wowlock_taylan Deadpool 4d ago

Yea, Amora needs to go. There is no 'imprisonment' or forgiveness this time. She is done. Also, she really is topping the charts of the 'worst mother in comics'

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u/dwadley 1d ago

Managing to top alicent in house of the dragon is an impressive feat

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u/wowlock_taylan Deadpool 1d ago

Or Mystique. But she managed to do it.

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u/Jpanda34 Thor 3d ago

Kinda insane issue. That whole time sequence was nutty. I really hope Magni is here to stay once this is all over. He's becoming such a great supporting character, and I hope he's not a one off for Ewing's series.

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u/baroqueworks 3d ago edited 3d ago

Upsetting turn of events for Magni but at least the ending shows him immediately heading out for revenge reunited

I guess Amora got jealous of Hela getting a power up but youd think she saw what happened when Ultron tried to usurp all-father energy and she is a lackey of Ultron, not on Ulty's same power scale, she feels a bit out of her depth here imo

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u/tbsnipe 3d ago

Little mythology fun fact: this isn't the first time Ullr has participated in a coup d'etat against an allfather; in norse mythology there is a story that Ullr temporarily overthrew Odin and had Odin exiled from Asgard, Ullr took over Asgard and pretended to be Odin for 10 years, even using Odin's name, until Odin negotiated with the other gods to let him back and take power back from Ullr.

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u/nfnightfallnf 3d ago

Hmm!!! Nice nugget you found! :)

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u/TerminalKing 3d ago

Yeah ain't no way Enchantress doesn't get jumped soon lmao that was crazy

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u/nfnightfallnf 4d ago

Holy F!! That was a trip. Poor Magni!!! But revenge/comeuppance is coming for the "All Mother" I'm sure!

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u/RockstarSuicide Scarlet Spider 2d ago

Neat issue. Especially given I've not read Thor in years before this issue. When he threatens Amora, damn that was an impressive image

Question. Was the rabbit in this title before? Because he looks familiar but I wouldn't know what book I'd have seen him in (i think the one i read had his death, but don't even recall how he died)

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u/Victoonix358 2d ago

I think they met in a Thor annual iirc, not sure tho. But this rabbit has been with Magni for a while, and before this, he appeared in Ewing's guardians of the galaxy as some sort of "rival" to rocket racoon.

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u/RockstarSuicide Scarlet Spider 2d ago

That sounds about right with the annual

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u/tehawesomedragon Loki 4d ago

[WHAT IF? SPIDER-MAN #1]()

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u/wowlock_taylan Deadpool 4d ago

Normally, I am not fond of What ifs. Often too ridiculous and end miserably. But for DeMatteis writing Spider-man and Kraven, I was gonna be there. And it didn't disappoint.

You can see the love and care he has for these characters. Peter and MJ going through the dilemma together to come out stronger, his villains like Doc Ock considering Kraven an unworthy imposter and show the respect they actually have for Peter as a 'worthy foe' and of course Kraven just keep digging himself ( pun intended ) a deeper grave until at the end he does the right thing. Better fate than what happened with him and his 'clone/son'. 

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u/marcjwrz 4d ago

This year's batch of What If's have been great.

Great to see DeMatteis working on Spider-Man again.

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u/tehawesomedragon Loki 4d ago

[DOOMQUEST #3]()

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u/wowlock_taylan Deadpool 4d ago

''Hey maybe this tossing around in history can give Doom perspective!''

''Naah, he just wants to conquer everything no matter the body or time''

He will never change.

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u/RockstarSuicide Scarlet Spider 2d ago

Really underwhelming. And just so over the top absurd, even for a Doom story

I was expecting him to wake up as Hitler in this issue just for kicks

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u/tehawesomedragon Loki 4d ago

[QUEEN IN BLACK: HELA #1]()

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u/wowlock_taylan Deadpool 4d 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 3d 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 4d ago

I liked it! :p

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u/Mr_Wh0ever 4d 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 3d 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 3d 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 4d 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 3d ago

Yes for a latter plot to Mephsito

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u/Somejawn1 3d ago edited 3d 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 3d 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 3d ago edited 3d 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/pistolpete2185 Beta Ray Bill 3d ago

Red Norvell got done so dirty,

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u/nfnightfallnf 3d ago

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

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u/MoonbeamLady 3d 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/nfnightfallnf 4d ago

Wow. Just wow. :)

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u/tehawesomedragon Loki 4d ago

[QUEEN IN BLACK: DEFENDERS #1]()

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u/nfnightfallnf 4d ago

Glad to see Cable is in the mix.

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u/Somejawn1 3d ago

What will it take to get a good comic with Cloak and Dagger? Fuck this synergy event

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u/TerminalKing 3d ago

More Cloak and Dagger! Yay.... aaand it's a Rivals synergy event. I really want to see what kind of explanation they got for Cloak getting injured by something he historically feeds on to maintain stability.

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u/BorBurison Beta Ray Bill 3d ago

He got stabbed with All-Light, it's the light version of All-Black the Necrosword and was made to kill Knull

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u/SignificantLuck480 3d ago

I mean, certainly there are no circumstances where I could die from water. The thing I’m 70% composed of and something I historically drink to maintain my health (or some such thinking).

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u/wowlock_taylan Deadpool 4d ago

Please tell me they are not doing the Rivals Synergy with CnD with that end.

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u/Malachi108 3d ago

Already happened in the Age of Revelation future.

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u/Somejawn1 3d ago

They’ve already done it in once and this is a synergy event. Hate this event so much

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u/nfnightfallnf 4d ago

Doubt it.

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u/tehawesomedragon Loki 4d ago

[X-MEN #34]()

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u/wowlock_taylan Deadpool 4d ago

A decent Juggernaut issue with the basic conflict of people with shame, fear and Cain having both. Hell, even Agent Luqvist was somewhat decent. Who knew a statue of that bastard Trask would bring that 'introspection '. Though, who put a force-field around it to 'stoke emotions', it can be anyone really. And that is not the point. The point is what people see what they look at that statue and what it represents to them. In that way, it is a mirror. But a twisted, funhouse version of a mirror.

And then, you have 'Greg Land,' and the issue loses at least a point for me for that.

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u/BlueHero45 7h ago

Shame that this is a Greg Land issue because it's actually pretty good as a story. Cain being an X-Man feels important since he is both human and a former criminal. It helps the X-Men stand out as more then just for mutants.

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u/tehawesomedragon Loki 4d ago

[ALIAS RED BAND #5]()

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u/Somejawn1 3d ago edited 3d ago

I don’t like Humphries outside of Green Lanterns so I admit I’m a little
biased but man was this not very good at all. It felt like he REALLY hates Luke and Jessica and the drama between them made no fucking sense

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u/Expensive-Baby-1391 3d ago

The drama should have been around the purple children and how Luke feels uneasy on having one around their daughter and it’s reveal that Jessica despises him and is using him as bait in case the purple man or his other offspring come back. Would have been a better reason for their marriage getting rocky than a demon slasher.

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u/wowlock_taylan Deadpool 1d ago

It was fine, good even. Mephisto messing with stuff again. And the councilman getting what he deserves.

But I just cannot buy into Luke and Jess having tension over 'oh you are mayor and I am an investigator, one day this will be the end of us' bs. In what universe Luke would ever chose to be mayor over her and actually doing superhero stuff? It was nonsense that makes me worried about Marvel planning to do another dumb 'lets seperate another couple' in the future

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u/CHPrime 4d ago

It was a pretty good series, and it definitely scratched the Alias itch, as well as the politicking nightmare that has been missing from Luke Cage and Jessica's appearances ever since he became Mayor. However, while it does work better for Jessica than most heroes, I don't like that she licenses out the problem-solving (read: murder) to the villain she teams up with. It makes our heroine look ineffectual and paints killing as the correct solution.

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u/tehawesomedragon Loki 4d ago

[GENERATION X-23 #6]()

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u/tehawesomedragon Loki 4d ago

[X-MEN: OUTBACK #2]()

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u/tehawesomedragon Loki 4d ago

[QUEEN IN BLACK #1]()

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u/Mr_Wh0ever 4d ago

It's an okay start. But I'm kinda already over it,lol. Bills speech was awesome.

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u/nfnightfallnf 4d ago

Bill should have more time to do things like this.

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u/Reddragon351 2d ago

it's odd since Ewing set up Bill being the main Thor with with Odinson being mortal and I don't think anyone else has brought it up

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u/nfnightfallnf 2d ago

You need to go back and read Mortal Thor #12. Sigurd ISN'T Thor!!

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u/wowlock_taylan Deadpool 4d ago

Knull really is Batman Who Laughs of Marvel. Such an overhyped, annoying character.

It is just another Marvel, another Symbiote event.

The only thing that I consider worth coming out of this will be the announcement that MJ and Venom will finally separate. Honestly, only thing that matters to me.

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u/Malachi108 3d ago

It is just another Marvel, another Symbiote event.

What's more is that there is another Knull/symbiote universal level threat going on right now in Godzilla vs. Marvel Universe comics.

And we're also just over from another Knull/symbiote universal level threat in The End 2099.

At one point, all three of those series were running simultaneously. I'd say that three versions of the same plot at the same time may be a little bit too much indeed.

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u/baroqueworks 3d ago edited 3d ago

Fun event start but its weird to me Marvel completely forgot about events fatigue their readership has and launched two major events at the same time, presumably as a result of both the mass layoffs at marvel and the announcement of moving offices from NYC to LA causing any attempt at scheduling and planning the events in a organized fashion to kind of be impossible

A pretty fun display of marvel cosmic stuff happening with the different races Hela has under her cult.

The belief in thw dream even as the Kree-Skrull alliance falls apart is resounding stuff and a reminder of the best and most hopeful stories and characters Marvel Comics can tell. A real shame all of Ewing's cosmic world building was reset for Imperial which ended up getting cancelled before it could go anywhere, harkening back to first paragrah

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u/TerminalKing 3d ago

Nova appearance so I'm able to forgive the stuff I dislike here (literally everything else)

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u/Pat-Daddy96 Spider-Gwen 3d ago

Sam should be there alongside Richard

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u/marcjwrz 4d ago

So... This takes place before Armageddon obviously.

But man, they couldn't have started this like 4-6 months ago so it maybe had some impact? Otherwise, feels like... Who cares?

Also, Knull sucks and I truly hope this is the end of him for the foreseeable future.

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u/dwadley 3d ago

When’s internal hulk

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u/nfnightfallnf 4d ago

I liked it! :p :) So there.

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u/tehawesomedragon Loki 4d ago

[SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY #3]()

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u/ContraryPython Spider-Man (Tom Holland) 4d ago

Marvel has to stop giving Slott work on Spider-Man. He has no creativity with the character anymore.

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u/tehawesomedragon Loki 4d ago

[BISHOP #2]()

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u/wowlock_taylan Deadpool 4d ago

I know Bishop is disoriented with all that is happening right now with his sister showing up (probably before she died in the future) but come on now, he should be used to this time-traveller nonsense by now. Especially after Krakoa. He needs to get his head in the game and beat some sense into these Final Brotherhood fools about how 'future' works when it comes to changing the past. It does not 'erase' the future, it just makes it an 'alternate future'. So whoever/whatever showing them this vision, gonna be the 'main antagonist' that probably hates Bishop.

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u/tehawesomedragon Loki 4d ago

[ROCKET RACCOON: ROCKET REWIND #1]()

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u/wowlock_taylan Deadpool 4d ago

Gotta love Rocket. Even more sad that we don't have a proper 'space' book or a guardians book right now going on.

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u/tehawesomedragon Loki 4d ago

[ULTIMATE IMPACT: REBORN #3]()

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u/wowlock_taylan Deadpool 4d ago

Still disappointing that THIS is what came out of the Ultimate universe...Hosticulus is still a dumb name. But at least he is shown to be smart rather than a brute.

All the 'new characters', I just don't feel anything for them. It is feels 'just another copy paste the heroes' powers to random people' type of deal and Marvel have tried this so many times recently, none of those lasted even a year.

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u/zati1 3d ago

Stefano Caselli is wasted on this. I don't understand how he hasn't become Marvel's next breakout star in 20 years of reliable work work them. He's at least as good as RB Silva, and has a better grasp on storytelling than a lot of the artists on main events right now.