A chronological reading order for Marvel’s War of the Realms event, including all the crossovers and tie-ins.
Marvel is kicking off their first major event centering around Jason Aaron’s Thor: War of the Realms by Jason Aaron, Russell Dauterman, and Matt Wilson. Thor has participated in several other Marvel events, but never had one of his own. It’s actually amazing that it has taken this long since Aaron’s run with the character is the longest one going at Marvel right now. While the event itself doesn’t start until April, there is plenty to read beforehand to get ready, and the prologue issues start next month. All the included issues are listed by release date at the moment, but they will be updated weekly as the books come out.
The main book, along with any tie-ins that are critical to the main story are in bold. Tie-ins that are still worth reading and enhance the overall story are not bolded or italicized. And issues that contribute to the event, but are not critical to the main story (and can most likely be skipped) are in italics.
Background Reading
There is really only one bit of recommended reading, but it’s a big one: Jason Aaron’s whole run on Thor, starting with Thor: God of Thunder. Comic Book Herald has a great Thor reading order that can help with that. There is also a great retrospective of the whole run over at Multiversity Comics that goes right up to Mighty Thor #700 and the current series. But if 6+ years worth of comics feels like a little much (and it is), Marvel has conveniently thrown a few key issues into a collection called War of the Realms Prelude. The only addition I would add is Thor: God of Thunder #12, one of the best issues of the whole run, and really the first issue that sets things in motion for War of the Realms.
I’ll be keeping a running list of changes for anyone curious about the reasoning behind parts of the order. Check out the full changelog for details.
So without further ado
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