Before Thor experiences Love and Thunder he'll have to deal with Lightning and Lament

A June Thor special from Marvel sure sounds like a companion♏ to Love and Thunder, doesn't it?

Thor: Lightning and Lament
Thor: Lightning and Lament cover art (Image credit: Marvel Comics)

Before Thor experiences Love and Thunder on July 8, he'll h𝐆ave to deal with Lightning and Lament in June. 

Thor: Lightning and Lament is a new one-shot special publishಌing on June 29 that is almost certainly part of an e꧙ffort to stock the shelves with new Thor titles for the release of Thor's fourth MCU installment just a week later.

And the similari🗹ty in titles doesn't sound like an accident either.

Thor: Lightning and Lament is written by longtime Marvel editor and writer Ralph Macchio and illustrated by artist Todd Nauck and is "brimming with an adventure worthy of the G𓆉od of Thunder," serving as a perfect entry point to the Thor mythos.

The publisher says it's time for Thor's 6𓆉0th anniversary in 2022, but we kind of think the movie has something to do𒆙 with it too.

Marvel adds that the unpredictable story is packed with "fresh insights" into not only Thor, but his brother Loki, his faღther Odin, and their "intense and dr🌌amatic family dynamic" as well.

In Lightning and Lament, Thor (rocking his old school duds, by the way) has abandoned Asgard in its hour of need, leaving the magical rea🎉lm in the 𝕴hands of Loki, with its rightful ruler, Odin also absent. Under assault by trolls, and with Sif near death due to a wound suffered in battle, Macchio and Nauck post the question can anyone save Asgard from annihilation?

Look for Marvel's full June 2022 solicitations later in March.&꧙nbsp;

Yes, Thor turns 60 in 2022, and so does Love and Thunder co-star Jane Foster - who had her own time wielding Mjolnir. Find out all about 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:how Jane Foster became Thor in Marvel Comics.

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