One of Marvel’s greatest warriors you probably never heard makes a major comeback thanks to superstar writer Jason Aaron (Thor, Wolverine and the X-Men, Original Sin) and artist Mike Del Mundo of Elektra and X-Men Legacy.
Secret Wars: Warzones is taking us back to classic periods of Marvel history but in Weirdworld. Aaron calls it a realm of fantasy and 70’s B-movies filled with barbarians, sorcerers and dragons with one mythic warrior armed with lightning bolts and a big sword to rule them all.
Thor? No, Arkon!
I still remember way back in Uncanny X-Men Annual #3 Storm was kidnapped by Arkon. The mutants journeyed to this world of barbarians and mystics only to learn Ororo agree to sacrifice herself to save the planet.
Aaron gives Marvel.com his take on the long lost warrior last seen in The Avengers in the 80’s.
“He was once a great king and conqueror. The lord of the warlords. A badass barbarian ruler who’s been trained to kill since birth with sword or axe or hardened bolts of lightning that he keeps in a quiver on his back. But when we meet him in WEIRDWORLD #1, he’s lost and alone in a land he can’t explain or understand. A world where he has to fight every day just to survive, as each bend in the road brings new horrors, new monsters, new awful ways to die or go mad. All Arkon wants is to find his way home.
“If such a place even exists anymore. If it ever did at all.”
Aaron expanded on why this warzone may be the strangest in all of Battleworld:
“Expect lots of the weirder and more arcane bits of Marvel history mixed into one big crazy stew,” he explains. “A motley crew of characters, from a host of different books. Weirdworld is where lost things go. And it is a place unlike anything we’ve ever seen in the Marvel universe.”
Prior to kidnapping Storm, Arkon abducted Scarlet Witch in a plan to save his world’s energy rings, which acted like the sun for Polemachus. Arkon and the Femizon warrior Thundra went from war to love and ruled the extra dimensional world.
By Editor