COMICS: New SECRET WARS Tie-In, SIEGE, Is The Night's Watch Of The Marvel Universe
Kieron Gillen will be writing a new Battleworld series for Marvel titled SIEGE, which is described as a multiversal Night's Watch. Hit the jump for more details and artwork for the Secret Wars tie-in.
During Marvel's upcoming comic event, Secret Wars, writer Kieron Gillen will be leading a new series titled, SIEGE. He discussed the creative process saying he "just started extrapolating from what was only a relatively small detail of the world-building, and thinking all the fun you could have with it," the writer also describes the series by saying, "the easiest way to sum it up is if the Night’s Watch [from ‘Game of Thrones’] had an even more impossible task, and were recruited from across the entire marvel Multiverse."
The series will follow a ragtag team on Battleworld with the mission of defending the Shield barrier from the evils that lay south of the barrier, and will be, as Gillen put it, "spiritual sequel" to his S.W.O.R.D. series. The title will include characters such as S.W.O.R.D.'s Abigail Brand, Miss America Chavez, Kate Bishop, Leah from Journey Into Mystery, Illyana Rasputin, and a group of Baron Sinister clones named "The Endless Summer."
STORY BY: Kieron Gillen
ART BY: Felipe Andrade, and Various Artists
RELEASED DATE: July 2015