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Marvel Universes Ending, or Merging, or... Something; Marvel Secret War 2015
Topic Started: January 20, 2015, 5:06 pm (75 Views)
Dr Archeville
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Since January 2013, there's been an ongoing story going through the Avengers and New Avengers comics where universes are colliding into and wiping each other out. And now these "Incursions" are finally coming to a climax. From Newsrama:
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The Marvel Universe, as we have known it since 1961, is ending.

Yes, you read that right.

During a live "Secret Wars Kick-Off" press event at New York City's Midtown Comics, Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso and Senior Vice President of Publishing and Executive Editor Tom Brevoort confirmed that the eight-issue series Secret Wars will represent the end of both the Marvel Universe and the Ultimate Universe.

Saying that the mainstream Marvel Universe and Ultimate Universe would "smash together" during the upcoming Secret Wars crossover event, Alonso and Brevoort went on to elaborate that, by the time Secret Wars #1 hits the stands, every world in Marvel's multiverse will be destroyed, with pieces of each forming Battleworld, the staging ground for the Secret Wars storyline

"Once we hit Secret Wars #1, there is no Marvel Universe, Ultimate Universe, or any other. It's all Battleworld," Brevoort said.

Speculation regarding the end of the Ultimate Universe has been rampant, as fans have known for some time that, as of February, Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man will be the sole remaining title in the Ultimate line. What has been less clear is the future of the mainstream Marvel Universe moving out of Secret Wars.

We now know that the Marvel Universe, post-Secret Wars, will be an all new world combining elements not just of the Ultimate Universe and the mainstream Marvel Universe, but possibly bits and pieces of other worlds as well.

"The Marvel Iniverse will be Battleworld, and every single piece of those worlds will be building blocks for the universe," said Alonso, adding that all the universes represented in "Battleworld" will have "legs" moving forward.

Driving home the point that anything will be possible, Alonso also teased the possibility of bring back old characters during Secret Wars. "If we wanted to resurrect Gwen Stacy," he said with a smile, "this would be the place to do it."

While Marvel already teased earlier this month that the company would launch The All-New, All-Different Avengers, after having confirmed Avengers and New Avengers would end in April, Alonso confirmed that Marvel would be launching a "wealth" of new series, both ongoing and minis, during Secret Wars.

The events of Secret Wars represent what Brevoort described as "the culmination of Jonathan Hickman's plans from when he first came onto Avengers and New Avengers."

Brevoort added that Marvel's Free Comic Book Day issue, Secret Wars #0 written by Hickman, will bring readers "up to speed" for the event before it begins in may with Secret Wars #1 and an oversized issue #2.

So Marvel's "HUGE BOMBSHELL ANNOUNCEMENT" is something DC did 30 years ago. Except there's no real reason to do it, other than to generate hype.

Rumor is one of the other universe to be pulled in will be the universe of the 1990s X-Men cartoon. Though I'm betting they'll all be slaughtered, much like another cartoon version of Marvel characters were slaughtered in a comic.
Edited by Dr Archeville, January 20, 2015, 5:19 pm.
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Verser Wallace
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Uhg. This feels like a massive step backwards for Marvel. Also feels like they could have done this earlier between the Cancer Verse and Ultimate Galactus. I just feel/fear that this is just a vehicle to bring the comics in line with the cinematic universe which I feel would be a big mistake.
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I am cautiously interested in what comes f this. I think some cool things can happen but also nervous an aware about hoe bad this could go
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I'm deeply worried given the way Marvel treats its queer female characters that any lesbian characters the Marvel universe has will be the first to wind up either killed off or erased entirely

I haven't forgotten how the last DC reboot saw almost ALL of their queer women characters erased from that universe

I don't have much optimism that this event is going to make the Marvel universe a more welcoming place to women like me :(

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