"Don't be surprised if we come back to that story at some point in the near future," teased Marvel's Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso regarding Marvel's November 2011 "Point One" . Now it seems that may just be happening with the murder of Uatu the Watcher May of next year
Retailers have even begun receiving a postcard from Marvel, featuring the chalk outline of The Watcher, bloody smears where his eyes would be without any creator names on the card.
In the 2011 Point One a pair of space-suited figures crept around a slumbering Uatu, The Watcher and caught glimpses of stories and events yet to come, including Avengers vs. X-Men, Sam Alexander as Nova, the return of the Scarlet Spider ,and Age of Ultron. The issue ends with the duo leaving Uatu's home as he began to awaken,saying that The Unseen would soon kill the Watcher, "and all of his secrets will be ours."