Yo-Yo Posted March 20, 2015 Report Share Posted March 20, 2015 I saw this up on polygon this week, hard to believe they are doing this but once I read the article I understood why. Seems like they've been shaking things up at Marvel and want to start fresh to make things even better. I think that's how it'll work out. Via Polygon: To hasten the death of the entire universe, Marvel Comics will end 33 comic books, according to David Cabriel, Marvel's SVP of sales & marketing. The casualties will amass as a result of the Secret Wars storyline, which will begin in May. By the time Secret Wars wraps up, the Marvel universe will reset and be free of much of the continuity that built up over the years. Here's the list of books that "will be reaching their 616 Finale over the next few months," according to Gabriel: All-New Captain America All-New Ghost Rider All-New X-Men Amazing Spider-Man Amazing X-Men Angela: Asgard’s Assassin Avengers Avengers World Captain Marvel Cyclops Deadpool Elektra Fantastic Four Guardians 3000 Guardians of the Galaxy Hulk Inhuman Iron Fist: The Living Weapon Legendary Star-Lord Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man New Avengers Nightcrawler Nova Rocket Raccoon Secret Avengers Spider-Man & The X-Men Spider-Man 2099 Storm Superior Iron Man Thor Uncanny X-Men Wolverines X-Men Here's how it works: There are a lot of stories being told simultaneously in the Marvel Comics universe, which is technically a multiverse, given that some stories take place in separate planes of reality. Marvel's primary reality is called Earth 616. Think of that as the realest of the fake worlds, the one where most stories focus and where most everything happens. Every once and a while, comic book publishers like to press the reset button on their rat's nest of storylines and characters, where sometimes decades-long storylines determine what can and can't be done. It makes things simpler, bringing them back to basics. DC Comics did it a few years ago with its New 52 series. This year, Marvel will perform that reset with Secret Wars. As Marvel announced at a press event in January, by the time Secret Wars is over, only select pieces of story will carry over to the new world. "Imagine there's two pizzas," editor-in-chief Axel Alonso said in January. "They're going to smash together. You're going to have all-new toppings. Some toppings are going to drop off. You're going to yell about some that are missing. You're going to love the new ones that are there. That's the new Marvel universe moving forward." "SECRET WARS IS UNLIKE ANY EVENT EVER PUBLISHED" But if Marvel's going to make a universe-sized omelette, it's going to have to break some big eggs. And that means that 33 comics are going away, at least for now. Gabriel said Secret Wars will "affect every title in some way shape or form." "Secret Wars is unlike any event ever published," he said. "It’s not just an event with a few tie-ins, it’s an entirely new publishing line, an entirely new television network’s fall line-up if you will. It’s not unlike what was done in the 1990s with Age of Apocalypse. Even then, that was just the X-Men titles. But this is so much more. The entire Marvel Universe will be affected in some really shocking, really surprising ways. And that’s just the beginning of the fun!" Marvel told each comic's creator what would happen and is allowing them to end their comic books as they see fit. "Now in a perfect world, we’d have stopped every book with its April issue, putting out a nice clean May Previews catalog," Gabriel said. "Everyone would have seen upfront all those titles that had their finale, and all those titles that were starting fresh. But things don’t always go so easily. "Instead we gave our creators the option to end their stories the way they wanted to; we let them tell 'Last Days' stories if they wanted to; we let them tell Secret Wars stories if they wanted to. So in the end Secret Wars truly has been a creative driven process." The Secret Wars series will take place under three banners: Battleworld, Last Day and Warzones. According to Gabriel, "Last Days are the past, Battleworld is the present, and Warzones are the future." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Iacovelli Posted March 21, 2015 Report Share Posted March 21, 2015 its nothing new, how many times have DC done Crisis series to reset the comic, thats why they have new 52 . secret wars is marvel's answer to dc crisis AVC Online:atari-video.club VGS website: http://videogamesummit.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosweargamer Posted March 21, 2015 Report Share Posted March 21, 2015 ...but they all come back as zombie comics in a couple months The No Swear Gamer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtJuo040EOCTVziObIgVcg Host of The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Iacovelli Posted March 21, 2015 Report Share Posted March 21, 2015 the real fun is reading crisis from last to start lol I did that with the first cris on infinate earths series I young lol AVC Online:atari-video.club VGS website: http://videogamesummit.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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