COMICS: MARVEL Are Relaunching SECRET WARS In 2015

COMICS: MARVEL Are Relaunching SECRET WARS In 2015

Fans have been awaiting a huge Marvel announcement from NYCC, and this appears to be it: Next May, Secret Wars returns for a year-long event with writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Esad Ribic on board. Could this be the direction the MCU will take too?

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By MarkCassidy - Oct 09, 2014 05:10 PM EST
Filed Under: Comic-Con
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This just in from New York Comic Con: Marvel has announced plans to publish a new Secret Wars, from writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Esad Ribic, as a year-long event starting in May 2015. The news was revealed tonight at an offsite event at Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N. in Times Square. Apparently the story will kick off at the conclusion of the currently running "Avengers" and "New Avengers" storyline, "Time Runs Out." Hasbro, Hot Topic, and Upper Deck will be handling the tie-in merchandise. Notice how the teaser image from Alex Ross features various different incarnations of some of Marvel's biggest characters? Well Marvel Senior VP of Publishing Tom Brevoort says that none of the characters depicted in the pic are random and all are pulled from Marvel's 75-year publishing history. "However massive you think this is, let me assure you it is bigger than that. It's by far the craziest thing I've dealt with."

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PAF
PAF - 10/9/2014, 5:38 PM
SLAY ME ESAD RIBIC!! Love his art.
ruadh
ruadh - 10/9/2014, 5:38 PM
Ugh. Secret wars was such a major event when I was a kid. This is just the nostalgic tugging kinda thing I can't resist.
ruadh
ruadh - 10/9/2014, 5:39 PM
Omarvls, wasn't the Cap one just Secret War?
PAF
PAF - 10/9/2014, 5:39 PM
Oh shit they got American Dream from Spider-Girl's (May Parker) world (MC2). Nice.
NovaCorpsFan
NovaCorpsFan - 10/9/2014, 5:41 PM
This should be fun
TheBatmanRules
TheBatmanRules - 10/9/2014, 5:41 PM
HECK YEAH!
PAF
PAF - 10/9/2014, 5:41 PM
Looks like Old vs. New here.
BlackPhillip
BlackPhillip - 10/9/2014, 5:42 PM
Thor vs. Whor!
SageMode
SageMode - 10/9/2014, 5:43 PM
That creative team though. Hickman and Ribic? Hell YESS.
duncboy
duncboy - 10/9/2014, 5:44 PM
What exactly was the story of Secret Wars? Looks like some sort of Infinite Crisis type story
Desrow
Desrow - 10/9/2014, 5:45 PM
Marvel pulling a DC now??...
MarvelWeiner
MarvelWeiner - 10/9/2014, 5:47 PM
Now they're pulling shit out their asses, yay!!!
TheBuoyWonder
TheBuoyWonder - 10/9/2014, 5:47 PM
I'm pretty sure I've seen this before.
ruadh
ruadh - 10/9/2014, 5:48 PM
Isn't that what writing is? Pulling it from your ass?
BritishMonkey
BritishMonkey - 10/9/2014, 5:48 PM
Oh please let it be good.
patrat18
patrat18 - 10/9/2014, 5:48 PM
Is that Miles Morales? [frick] yea!
MrBender
MrBender - 10/9/2014, 5:50 PM
Could these DC groupies sound more ignorant? No, Secret Wars is not a reboot.
MrBlackJack
MrBlackJack - 10/9/2014, 5:53 PM
SageMode
SageMode - 10/9/2014, 5:54 PM
You could tell who's wet behind the ears when it comes to people thinking that this is some Marvel reboot/retcon spectacle.

Smh.
sikwon
sikwon - 10/9/2014, 5:55 PM
@Melkaticox... you say that like Spideys black costume didn't turn out to be Venom! And "some super villain" was the Beyonder. Secret Wars was the crossover event that started crossover events. It's also am event that if the powers that be so desired could lead to a Fox/Sony/Marvel type crossover movie or movies. As the Infinity Gauntlet story opens then introducing the Beyonder is easy. I don't think it would effect the MCU but major comic events can no longer be ignored. They have adapted versions of some of the biggest and best Marvel story's already. Civil War, Secret Wars, Age of Ultron, Infinity Gauntlet are some of the biggest and we've seen (or will see) versions of most of those. SW was excellent.
MrBlackJack
MrBlackJack - 10/9/2014, 5:55 PM
Sweet!
ruadh
ruadh - 10/9/2014, 5:56 PM
Probably throwing some fuel on the fire, however...I can't make everyone completely out, but I don't see any Fox-owned characters in there...
PeterDarker121
PeterDarker121 - 10/9/2014, 5:57 PM
Did someone say HASBRO?

'Secret Wars' is NICE, but I want the BIG announcement at this years NYCC to be the return of mah man to Marvel....
LeonNova
LeonNova - 10/9/2014, 5:58 PM
I have the physical collection of Secret Wars signed by John Beatty himself, I always was a big fan of the story, and the loose adaptation of it in the '90s Spider-Man animated series, so I hope they don't screw this up. I would love to see them do this in the MCU, too bad they don't have rights to Spider-Man or Fantastic Four characters. Although that would make a great 2 or 3 part epic if Marvel, Fox, and Sony could all get along. And since the story doesn't even take place on earth, they wouldn't have to go through the hassle of explaining why The Avengers, Spider-Man, and the X-Men haven't existed in the same universe up until that point. Not that that will ever happen anyway...
PAF
PAF - 10/9/2014, 6:07 PM
@Desrow

Educate yourself please.
staypuffed
staypuffed - 10/9/2014, 6:08 PM
oh my God yes!
I am stoked!
ruadh
ruadh - 10/9/2014, 6:09 PM
Looking things up on Wikipedia is hard.
PAF
PAF - 10/9/2014, 6:09 PM
Y'all "comic" fans better go ahead and educate y'all selves.
TheRationalNerd
TheRationalNerd - 10/9/2014, 6:10 PM
Captain America: Secret Wars confirmed.

Same thing with Avengers: Age of Ultron comic.
fatcobra
fatcobra - 10/9/2014, 6:10 PM
It looks like there are multiple alternate universes crossing over here. I spot Supreme Power Hyperion and Classic Hyperion duking it out, Starbrand from the New Universe,Cap's daughter from MC2, ect.
TheRationalNerd
TheRationalNerd - 10/9/2014, 6:11 PM
Check out Black Panther in the back though. :O
MisterBatfleck
MisterBatfleck - 10/9/2014, 6:11 PM
0_0

Bring. It.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 10/9/2014, 6:14 PM
Say what you will..you know you're all reading this!
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