The Marvel Universe comes to an end!! Secret Wars 2015

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Ok comic book fans, yesterday Marvel announced at a press conference at Midtown Comic to end all announcements! Marvel Universe as we know it will be coming to an end! Let us take a moment to remember the universe that many generation grew up on...... R.I.P Marvel Universe 1961-2015. But don't stress True Believers, from Death comes Life. Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso and Senior Vice President of Publishing Tom Brevoort both discuss the May-debuting event series from Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic.

The big news delivered during the event is that the Marvel Universe and Ultimate Universe will combine in the inciting incident of "Secret Wars," in an "incursion" as described in Hickman's "Avengers" and "New Avengers" run. The end result is Battleworld, which has been previously partly revealed by a series of teaser images drawing off of past Marvel history -- and it's not just those two prominent universes that will be colliding.

"The Ultimate Universe, the Marvel Universe, they're going to slap together," Alonso said. "Imagine two pizzas: They're going to combine toppings, some toppings are going to drop off. And that is the Marvel Universe moving forward. It's more than the Marvel Universe and the Ultimate Universe, it's all the universes you can imagine. That is the Marvel Universe going forward."

The series of previously released teasers only represent about half of the Battleworld landscape, as revealed by Marvel. Multiple announcements are planned over the next two weeks for more stories tying in to "Secret Wars."

The news has raised many questions, including what Marvel's publishing line will look like as a whole during the course of "Secret Wars"  and what shape the Marvel Universe will be in after the event. We will bring you more as it soon as it's out.


by Sean Tucker

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What to expect from Marvel's April 2015 Comics

Punisher Goes Legit

Previous solicits have established that Spider-Gwen will introduce new twists on numerous elements not just of the Spider-Man mythos, but of the larger Marvel universe. With this solicit for April's

 

Spider-Gwen #3, we're getting our first glimpse of one of those twists.

Frank Castle, AKA the Punisher, has deep roots in the mainstream Spider-Man mythos - he first appeared as a villain in Amazing Spider-Man #129 - so it's fitting that he'll appear as a different kind of nemesis for Gwen Stacy/Spider-Woman.

 

Interestingly, Frank Castle was created by Gerry Conway a mere five issues after he wrote Gwen Stacy's death in Amazing Spider-Man #121

 

 

 

All-New X-Men #40

Brian Bendis has been teasing the Utopians for a while now, with prospective images showing them as a mutant collective comprised of characters such as Pixie, Callisto, Colossus, and even Adam X who were associated with the X-Men's Utopia era.  Last seen during AvX when it was sunk by the Phoenix Five, Utopia was an island headquarters off the coast of San Francisco designed to be a haven for mutants. With Magneto's solo title dealing with the legacy of Genosha, it seems fitting that Bendis should be revisiting the concept of a mutant nation in All-New X-Men.
It's been over a year since Bendis last promised an appearance for the Utopians in 2014, and it was September that he last mentioned it, so the Utopians have been in the works for a long time. Exactly who they are and what their relationship to the X-Men might be remains to be seen.

Wolverines

With Logan still dead, his various extended family members are still filling his place in the Marvel Universe. It may seem weird that Marvel's most popular mutant is absent from its publishing line, but time has proved that when it comes to Wolverine, more is more. What's better than one nigh-unstoppable mutant samurai? How about a half-dozen of them?  Of course, it seems Marvel wants at least some of us to think that Logan is on his way back to the land of the living - however, that silhouette paints a dramatically different picture, showing a Wolverine-esque figure with not three, but four claws on each hand.
So who does this point to? Our best guess is Romulus, the manipulative villain who has been behind the scenes of many events in Wolverine's life, and the lives of his similar "Lupines." But is the return of Romulus really "the moment we've been waiting for?" Maybe Marvel has another twist in store for us yet.

Secret Wars Prelude

It's no secret that Marvel's next big crossover is supposed to be a real game-changer, bringing in elements of Marvel's various publishing lines and alternate realities, possibly leading to what many speculate will be some kind of reboot, or at least a reworking of their timeline and core reality. With this many balls in the air, a Secret Wars Prelude collection seems like a no-brainer. What is a little less clear is exactly how the titles assembled in this collection feed into the larger story of  Secret Wars. A selection of issues of the original Secret Wars, a recent Fantastic Four comic, and stories featuring Miles Morales and the Ultimates aren't exactly a clear roadmap - but they may provide some clues.
Highlighting the end of Jonathan Hickman's Fantastic Four, a series which lead directly to his ongoing story of the collapse of Marvel's multiverse, it's a safe bet that Secret Wars will tie directly in to the conclusion of that collapse. Likewise, it makes sense that the Ultimate Universe is receiving some love, since it seems likely that some elements of that timeline - particularly Miles Morales - will find their way into the mainstream Marvel universe at the end of Secret Wars - whatever that may look like.




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