Ragnarök the doom of the gods has finally occurred But the long-held belief that evil would be destroyed along with the gods in that final conflagration proved false Only the gods died The Nine Worlds collapsed & became the Dusk Lands a vast twilight realm inhabited by men trolls demons & shattered kingdoms under the tyranny of the Great Enemies After hundreds of years a single god emerged into the post-Ragnarök world Thor the God of Thunder But Angantyr the Lord of the Dead has discovered his reappearance & unleashes his draugar the undead walkers against the Thunder God seeking to destroy the last vestige of the former worlds & the only hope for the present one Meet the Author Over the course of his career Walter " Walt" Simonson has written & drawn nearly every major character from both Marvel & DC Comics with his run on Marvel&s Thor from 1983 to 1987—in which he created the character Beta Ray Bill—being a particular standout His other notable works include an adaptation of Alien with his Manhunter collaborator & close friend Archie Goodwin; Star Wars; The Fantastic Four; & Orion & Elric In the 1980s & 1990s Simonson resurrected the concepts from his college thesis creating an original graphic novel & miniseries featuring the Star Slammers In 2014 Simonson launched Ragnarok with IDW Publishing a creator-owned series that once again brings him back to his beloved Norse mythology