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How Do You Survive The End Of The World In Secret Wars#1 Anyway? (Speculative SPOILERS)

Published Thu, 07 May 2015 19:00:50 -0500

Yesterday the Marvel and the Ultimate Universes ended in Secret Wars #1. Earth collided with Earth, only a few made it out in a "life raft" and of those, some still didn't make it.

Or did they?

The comic opened with Doctor Doom, Molecule Man and Doctor Strange meeting the Beyonders, carrying on a storyline that began in New Avengers. And the narrator stating quite clearly that God exists.

But which god would this be? And who is speaking now?

Those who have read the original Secret Wars series may recall that Doom himself had a little encounter with that Beyonder.

And after an initial failure…

Ended up the victor.

Note that Jonathan Hickman is bringing back all sorts of references to the original series. Such as the life raft that Valerie built with a little help from everyone else?

Being a spitting image of the craft the Beyonder used to kidnap the Marvel Super Heroes for the Secret Wars all those years ago.

So when in those final scenes, as Reed Richards loses his family (and fingers) to the void…. we see a face.

Has Doom done it again? Taken the powers of the Beyonders to become a god? And might e be minded to save the family of the Fantastic Four? Maybe save them… for later?