is one of the most dangerous entities in the Marvel Universe. No one knows this more than the Olympian God of War, Ares. In the 2006 "Ares" miniseries by writer Michael Avon Oeming and artist Travel Foreman, Mikaboshi's demonic forces kidnapped Ares' young son, Alexander, and used him as a pawn in a scheme to annihilate the Olympian pantheon of Gods. Ares and his brother Hercules foiled the dark god's plot, but not before he murdered their father Zeus.
Later, when the alien Skrull Empire invaded Earth, they didn't want to simply conquer the people of the planet: they wanted to defeat the divine beings associated with it as well. A "God Squad" was assembled in order to take down the Skrulls' two deities and their army of slave gods created from the various cultures they had conquered. Hercules was placed in charge of the group and, much to his chagrin, Mikaboshi was also made a part of the squad. The God Squad was successful, the Skrull deities were destroyed, but Mikaboshi was left behind in the Skrull Gods' dimension. He took advantage of the opportunity to take control of the fallen deities' army and since then, he and his forces have been growing more powerful, rampaging across galaxies and realities and enslaving more alien gods.
This October, the"Chaos War" event storyline begins when Mikaboshi, now calling himself the Chaos King, and his army arrive on Earth. Once here, they'll prepare for their endgame - the destruction of all reality. Ares, the Greek god of war, won't sit idly by and let that happen. Though he may have recently been murdered by the Sentry during "Siege," being dead isn't going to prevent him from wading full-on into the Chaos War in the November one-shot "Chaos War: Ares" by Oeming and artist Stephen Segovia. We spoke with the creators and their editor Mark Paniccia about the project.
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