When the cosmic dust settles after Secret Wars…the Marvel Universe will jump forward in time 8 months.
You may remember Jonathan Hickman set his final Avengers, New Avengers arc called Time Runs Out 8 months in the future. The final incursion is history, we’re two chapters into Secret Wars and we have new clues about what’s next.
Marvel Executive Editor, Senior Vice-President and Secret Wars Editor Tom Brevoort confirmed the upcoming status quo.
“In the same way that events jumped forward in time eight months in AVENGERS and NEW AVENGERS during the lead-up to Secret Wars, so too when we enter the new Marvel Universe eight months will have passed for all of the characters as well,” he explained on Marvel.com. “This provides our creators, even apart from Secret Wars, to drop into exciting new situations and status quos on the fly. So look for surprises and mysteries and changes galore as series resume in the NEW MU.”
After the first two chapters of Secret Wars, this week sees the first of several tie-in series set in the new Battleworld reality including Planet Hulk and A-Force.
“As we’ve been saying, the building blocks of the NEW MU are being established throughout the various SECRET WARS titles, with every series contributing something to the NEW MU—whether that something is a character, a place, an environment, an object, a status quo, or any other thing that you might think of,” said Brevoort.
August solicits are out this. It could be another month before we learn new titles this fall in the post-Secret Wars Marvel Universe.
By Editor