Alex Spencer

TIM: (Minor spoilers if you’ve avoided promo for War of the Realms) The “open your eyes” line feels so directed towards Daredevil that it has to be foreshadowing for what’s going to happen to him during this event.pic.twitter.com/l38Fnyaa5P

This panel does a great job of selling the premise of this entire event – the clashing of mundanity and epic scale, an incursion of things that shouldn’t be here. Plus, the frosting-up of the windows is an A+ detail.pic.twitter.com/jeHfgTUOwD

TIM: The background of this panel features both Thori terrifying a Dark Elf into submission, and one of my favourite minor tropes: a fantasy creature getting absolutely blatted by a car.pic.twitter.com/o5GTZqx8AD

Asgardians misunderstanding heroes’ names and turning them into fantasy titles is a hoary old trope (cf. “Man of Spiders”, in this very same issue) but for some reason I love this one. CAPTAIN OF AMERICA.pic.twitter.com/v8XSiwmkXI

The one dud note in the issue for me was some of the dialogue given to Daredevil and Dr Strange. The glib quippiness is dialled up to Spidey/Iron Man levels – presumably to contrast with the Asgardians, but it means Midgard's heroes don't feel distinct from *one another*.pic.twitter.com/tXjvIMPneA

Cap’s voice, though, stays distinctive. Steve Rogers is one of very few characters who could deliver this kind of line while looking completely unfazed.pic.twitter.com/B7hhmaOLzq

As already established, Dauterman is the master of tilted action panels. But where do you go from there, when you need to sell an especially powerful impact? HULK SMASH PANEL BORDERS, natch.pic.twitter.com/YMYSjWzkPg

Our villains enter. “Lords of Midgard” is a callback to the title of a 2016 Mighty Thor arc, but I’m intrigued by the choice to put it in a logo font. Does that mean it’s their official Team Name? Should we be expecting a Lords of Midgard spin-off book?pic.twitter.com/tj2RX7U7WO