WHO DESTROYS THE MARVEL UNIVERSE?

New Avengers #6 courtesy Marvel
New Avengers #6 courtesy Marvel

As we build up until the final weeks of Avengers, New Avengers, the start of Secret Wars and the end of the Marvel Universe we’re watching for clues and signs.

Who caused the death of the Marvel Universe?

Jonathan Hickman’s epic Avengers run began with incursions from other Earths threatening to destroy ours. When heroes fail the Marvel Universe will be destroyed and only Battleworld remains as Secret Wars rage.

But what started the incursions?

We could have seen a big blatant clue in Guardians Team-Up #3 by Sam Humphries this week. This issue is a Chapter Six of the Black Vortex crossover between Guardians of the Galaxy and X-Men but two words send my mind reeling. Continue reading WHO DESTROYS THE MARVEL UNIVERSE?

OLD MAN LOGAN, New SECRET WARS And New MARVEL

Old Man Logan #1 courtesy Marvel
Old Man Logan #1 courtesy Marvel

Secret Wars leads to Battleworld – the new Marvel reality divided into Warzones bases on classic comics stories.

Brian Michael Bendis and Andrea Sorrentino revisit the future world of Old Man Logan, based on the storyline by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven.  Wolverine was almost the last hero standing in a world conquered by super villains who goes on a last stand road trip.

How does each Warzone affect the ongoing Secret Wars by Jonathan Hickman and the aftermath? Bendis is not blatant but gives us a lot of ponder about the the impact of Logan and what’s after the war: Continue reading OLD MAN LOGAN, New SECRET WARS And New MARVEL

KATE PRYDE in X-MEN YEARS OF FUTURE PAST

Years of Future Past #1 courtesy Marvel
Years of Future Past #1 courtesy Marvel

A new generation of readers cheer for #StarKat but long before Kitty Pryde fell for Star-Lord of Guardians of the Galaxy, she was in love with Colossus.

What if Kitty and Colossus married and had a child?

When Secret Wars launches this summer X-fans will return to the nightmare future of Days of Future Past and a married Peter and Kate.

Marguerite Bennett and Mike Norton return to this timeline created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne. In the classic two-part adventure Kate Pryde travel into the past, took over her younger body and stopped an assassination that led to a future in which mutants were hunted, imprisoned or executed by giant Sentinels. This is one of the most powerful and influential X-Men storylines and the inspiration for last year’s hit movie. Continue reading KATE PRYDE in X-MEN YEARS OF FUTURE PAST

MARRIED SPIDER-MAN IN SECRET WARS

Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #1 courtesy Marvel
Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #1 courtesy Marvel

Spider-Verse featured nearly every man, woman, teen or version of a Spider-hero.

Thanks to Secret Wars, Spider-Man…married with kids…is back.

Following up on the earlier Renew Your Vows teaser, Marvel made it official with the June previews.

Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows by Dan Slott and Adam Kubert may be one of the most romantic of the Warzones books as they explore what if Peter Parker and Mary Jane stay married and had a child. Continue reading MARRIED SPIDER-MAN IN SECRET WARS

CAPTAIN MARVEL & CAROL CORPS In BATTLEWORLD

Captain Marvel goes to war.

Captain Marvel and the Carol Corps #1 courtesy Marvel
Captain Marvel and the Carol Corps #1 courtesy Marvel

Carol Danvers will lead a strike force over the skies of Battleworld in a new Secret Wars: Warzones book.

Marvel announced Captain Marvel and the Carol Corps by writers Kelly Sue DeConnick, Kelly Thompson and artist David Lopez.

The book introduces a new Captain Marvel. In the birth of Battleworld a new Marvel reality and Carol Danvers emerges.

“This is our Carol if the situation had been different,” DeConnick told Marvel.com. “She comes from a different world, but her personality traits are essentially the same.”

“All the core stuff is the same,” Thompson added. “She’s got powers. She’s a hero. She’s a pilot. I think that is one of the things I find most interesting about [this series] actually. She’s a very defined person and changing her environment and circumstances—she’s still that person.” Continue reading CAPTAIN MARVEL & CAROL CORPS In BATTLEWORLD

SECRET WARS SQUADRON SINISTER

Squadron Sinister #1 courtesy Marvel
Squadron Sinister #1 courtesy Marvel

Hyperion is an Avenger right?

Wrong.

Secret Wars brings heroes from multiple time periods of past.

Marvel revealed a major group of villains will make a major comeback in a new Secret Wars Warzones book.

Marc Guggenheim and Carlos Pacheco will bring back the Squadron Sinister. Imagine a evil version of the Justice League built to take down Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Continue reading SECRET WARS SQUADRON SINISTER

LAST DAYS OF BLACK WIDOW

Black Widow #19 courtesy Marvel
Black Widow #19 courtesy Marvel

The End of the Marvel Universe is coming.

How will Marvel’s deadliest spy spend her Last Days?

When Secret Wars begins, heroes and villains of the Marvel Universe will know how much time they have left before the world ends but how they spend that time is the theme of Last Days.

The Black Widow has been making up for her past with covert missions in her solo book by Nathan Edmondson and Phil Noto.

As the writer explains Natasha is looking to her past in her Last Days: Continue reading LAST DAYS OF BLACK WIDOW

MARVEL Assembles A-FORCE, All-Female AVENGERS

A-Force courtesy Marvel, a Mashable first
A-Force courtesy Marvel, a Mashable first

Assemble the A-Force!

Marvel announced its first all-female Avengers team on The View and via Mashable.

The roster will be She-Hulk, Dazzler, Medusa, Nico Minoru and others including a new superhero: a cosmically powered woman named Singularity.

A-Force will be co-written by Marvel exclusive writer G. Willow Wilson (Ms. Marvel) and Marguerite Bennett (Angela: Asgard’s Assassin, Lois Lane one-shot) with veteran X-Men artist Jorge Molina.

The new super group assembles when the current Avengers team disband in the midst of Secret Wars and this all-female team will “take over and lead the way” according to Marvel. Continue reading MARVEL Assembles A-FORCE, All-Female AVENGERS