Al Ewing

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Al Ewing is a British comics writer born on August 12, 1977. He started in 2000 AD with four-page Future Shocks, later writing Judge Dredd stories and co-creating The Zaucer of Zilk and Murderdrome. He also contributed to Solar Wind, FutureQuake, The End Is Nigh, and created the mobile comic Murderdrome.

Moving to American comics, he wrote for Dynamite Entertainment (Jennifer Blood and The Ninjettes) and published Pax Britannia novels, including Pax Britannia: El Sombra, a steampunk series.

In Marvel Comics, Ewing has written Mighty Avengers, Loki: Agent of Asgard, New Avengers, U.S.Avengers, Ultimates, Rocket, Royals, and The Immortal Hulk. The Immortal Hulk received Eisner Award attention, and Marvel earned a Diamond Gem Award related to it. He also co-wrote the first year of the Doctor Who comic for Titan.

Ewing won a GLAAD Media Award in 2021 for Outstanding Comic Book (Empyre) and was nominated for Guardians of the Galaxy in 2021 and 2022. He joined Venom (vol. 7) as co-writer with Ram V starting in 2021.

During Marvel’s Krakoan Age, he wrote S.W.O.R.D., X-Men Red, and Resurrection of Magneto. In 2023 he was announced as the writer of The Immortal Thor, which began in 2023. In 2024 he was announced to work on Absolute Green Lantern for DC (scheduled for 2025) and All-New Venom with Carlos Gomez; Metamorpho: The Element Man, with Steve Lieber, was planned for late 2024.

Personal life: Ewing has a brother, Tom Ewing, who writes about music and pop culture, and he created the Freaky Trigger site. He publicly came out as bisexual at the end of Pride Month in 2021.