MARVEL.COM: Hela is our titular Queen in Black. Where do we meet her at the start of this story?
EWING: She’s starting her plan to take Midgard—as in, Earth—for herself, backed up by an army of Marvel’s deadliest alien races all bonded to symbiotes, so we’re getting right into the action. But if you want to see how this whole plot got started, the answers are in the QUEEN IN BLACK: HELA special.
MARVEL.COM: On top of the main series, you’re also writing a handful of tie-ins for QUEEN IN BLACK. Where do each of these series fit in the larger story?
EWING: I’m writing a couple of specials – in QUEEN IN BLACK: HELA, Karnilla of the Norns tells the tale of how Hela started all this, and which forgotten Thor tried to prevent it. QUEEN IN BLACK: THOR, meanwhile, is a tale of Beta Ray Bill and the Mortal Thor, Sigurd Jarlson—how they react to Hela, and how Hela reacts to them. And finally, in VENOM, we get to see the war against Hela from the point of view of the characters in that book—Dylan, Mary Jane, and obviously the Venom symbiote himself. It’ll be a fun time!