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Remaking The Marvel Universe, Slice By Slice – And How Mister Fantastic Fits Into It All

Published Wed, 26 Oct 2016 07:00:03 -0500

Last updated Sat, 29 Oct 2016 17:43:39 -0500

New Avengers #17 may have nothing to do with Civil War II as its cover promises. But that's all for the good. In this case it's about what happened after Secret Wars.

And how exactly The Maker, the evil Ultimate Reed Richards survived, and survived in the malleable, sliced up version of the last eighteen months.

And it seems it was all a bit of fun by Molecule Man, Owen Reece, the man remaking the multiverse with the good Reed Richards.

So every universe has a piece of The Maker in it. Every universe is flawed, has evil, has chaos. Welcome to the very definition of the Marvel Universe, and the answer as to why Franklin and Reed Richards would make universes with, you know, cancer. And Thanos.

And now he wants more. Even more than President Obama.

So what other books are redefining Marvel reality? Well Extraordinary X-Men has a new name for the Bleed between realities. Because someone noticed that another comic boom company was using that one.

The Lettuce.

Sorry, The Lattice. Typo. And the Old Ones are coming. Talking of old ones…
Looks like Tony Stark is dead. Or missing, Or something. But as well as rewriting the present and the future, today Marvel rewrites the past. A flashback in All-New All-Different Avengers #15 to the early days of The Avengers gives a reference to social media, replacing Rick Jones' shortwave radio communication system. concreting the idea that the entire Marvel Universe is now post 9/11.

While in today's Marvel Previews, we see Avengers .1, also written by Mark Waid, making references to bandwidth.

Basically, the past is catching up with us. Marvel Previews also looks at Inhumans Vs X-Men #0 and the Beast's attempts to cure stuff eight months ago.