THE MARVEL UNIVERSE IS COMING TO AN END IN MAY 2015
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BY JOSHUA YEHL
MARVEL COMICS / 20 JAN 2015
The Marvel Universe as you know it will be coming to an end.
Today at a live press event at Midtown Comics in New York City moderated by Marvel PR man Chris D’Lando, Marvel Comics’ Executive Editor Tom Brevoort and Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso announced that the Marvel Universe will smash together with the Ultimate Universe and will be replaced by Battleworld -- a mashup of many different Marvel realities.
Take a moment to compose yourself.
This huge development has been in the works for some time in Jonathan Hickman’s years-long Avengers saga. The heroes have been trying to stop a series of universe-ending “incursions” where two universes collide with one another. The inciting incident to May’s eight-part Secret Wars event will be when the heroes fail to stop the regular and Ultimate universes from crashing together. The resulting Battleworld will the the Marvel Universe going forward.
“This is putting an endcap to decades of stories and starting a new era. When you see the scope of the event, [you will] see what we’re willing to do. This is a place where we’re going to be bringing new pieces onto the board and taking old pieces off. You guys will be yelling and screaming, loving and hating in equal measure,” Alonso said.
It was clarified that Battleworld will be the Marvel Universe during, through, and after Secret Wars. None of this is an Elseworlds, What If, or any other kind of alternate reality -- it’ll be the setting for in-continuity stories that will all count going forward.
Late last year, there were a batch of teaser images harkening back to big Marvel events and such, and during the press conference it was revealed that each of those teasers will be a new comic book series. However, those are just the tip of the iceberg. Many new comics will be announced within the next two weeks, both ongoing series and limited.
In addition, D’Lando said that Marvel will be partnering with the likes of Hasbro, Funko, UpperDeck, and more to make new products to get fans excited for Secret Wars. He also mentioned that the Marvel games team will be coming up with some new “interactive content” for fans. Could a Secret Wars video game be on the horizon?
For those wanting to read Secret Wars, Marvel will be releasing a free Secret Wars #0 comic on May 3rd’s Free Comic Book Day that will act as a primer to get you ready for the event. Both Secret Wars #1 and #2 will be released in May, written by Hickman with art by Esad Ribic.
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Cool.
Been meeting to get myself back to the comic shop one day Maybe tax returns. -
battle world is a dumb name.
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Meta_Conscious wrote: »battle world is a dumb name.
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World of War
just simply naming the entire planet "Arena" would sound better than "Battle world" -
I feel like the X-Men, Fantastic Four and Spider-Man will all be downplayed even more than they already have been recently as a result of this in favor of The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Immortals, Captain Marvel, Black Panther, etc.
I don't even understand how Sony has rights to Miles Morales. If Disney can get away with Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver just by not calling them "mutants", why can't they just use the Ultimate Universe versions of some characters? They already do with Nick Fury. -
Whatever happened with that kid Apocalypse from Wolverines X-Force story? And that baby that Arch-Angel Apocalypse impregnated in Lady Famine?
This "Battle-World" seems just like the thing an Apocalypse would be around for. I don't know what happened with the kid, but with Arch-Angel gone, they'd need to pick a new one. I remember something about their being Celestials sleeping on Earth, waiting for the end of the world. Setting sounds like some survival of the fittest ? , so it makes sense one of those factors would come into play. -
Meta_Conscious wrote: »battle world is a dumb name.
suggest one.
it really doesnt need a name, just do the ? . -
Marvel never downplay Spider-Man
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Meta_Conscious wrote: »battle world is a dumb name.
The name was already around from the original "Secret Wars" ...............so it was always going to happen.
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so basically they are doing what DC has done dozens of times I predict this is going to suck and ? up a lot of ?
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so dope that both spiderman in 616 and ultimate universe are the popular ones
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Yup and basically the real beyonders are gonna make the the worlds come together like the OG beyonder made the heroes come together
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its not like dc, its basically all the alt universes + 616 will become 1 world/universe and will remain that way
its away for them to get rid of things like AvX -
CottonCitySlim wrote: »its not like dc, its basically all the alt universes + 616 will become 1 world/universe and will remain that way
its away for them to get rid of things like AvX
THATS EXACTLY LIKE WHAT DC DID BEFORE LOL
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StoneColdMikey wrote: »CottonCitySlim wrote: »its not like dc, its basically all the alt universes + 616 will become 1 world/universe and will remain that way
its away for them to get rid of things like AvX
THATS EXACTLY LIKE WHAT DC DID BEFORE LOL
not quite. Marvel's past continuity won't change if i'm not mistaken. They've been planning an Ultimate Universe merger with the 616 for years. I guess they just decided to utilize all of their altnerate universe characters, which isn't a bad idea. It looks like this is a way to somewhat match up the comics with the movie continuity -
DC's had to blow up their continuity every couple years cuz its always a mess......
I have a strong suspicion that this new "mashup of many different Marvel realities" is going to be one where the Fantastic Four don't do much and there are very few mutants. -
? like this is the reason I stopped reading comics.
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Secret Wars #1 dropped today!
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"When the Ultimate Universe and the regular universe meet, that's when you know Marvel has run out of ideas."
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Is there like a prequel to this? I downloaded bcotton's link and it seems like you're just thrown into the mix. Doesn't seem that bad nonetheless
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Is there like a prequel to this? I downloaded bcotton's link and it seems like you're just thrown into the mix. Doesn't seem that bad nonetheless
I read an article on IGN and apparently if you didn't follow all of Hickman's runs on both his Avengers comics you won't know wtf is going on. -
yea all the avengers and new avengers has been the lead up to this