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Marvel Comics Cancels Their Empyre Promotional Pins

Published Sun, 07 Jun 2020 10:26:49 -0500

Once upon a time, Marvel Comics planned quite a launch for their big event comic Empyre. But the week that Diamond Comic Distributors closed its doors to new comics and stopped shipping out new product, was the week that Marcel Comics was due to debut its first Empyre comic books. Empyre: Fantastic Four #0 and Empyre: Avengers #0 are currently being held at Diamond Comic Distributors warehouses and Marvel did not publish the titles digitally. It seems Bleeding Cool were among the very few to somehow end up with copies – as well as Empyre #1 which would also have been coming out in a week's time.

The big new event from Marvel Comics, masterminded by Dan Slott and Al Ewing, with zero issues drawn by Pepe Larraz and RM Guera from House Of X and Power Of X, with Valerio Schiti kicking off #1. Marvel planned to have been entering its biggest promotional activity for the story of a Skrull/Kree Alliance after the ending of the war, under the leadership of Hulking, heading to Earth for a bit of a barney. The Cotati were involved, as well as the Skrull family from Meet The Skrulls, the Celestial Messiah and the Swordsman from Avengers, and the Skrull and Kree team seen in Incoming #1.

The event has now been shrunk a little. Bleeding Cool has reported that the number of spin-off books curtailed. Union, Stormranger, Wakanda, all gone. The Empyre Magazine originally planned for release in April will now be full of titles that no longer exist. Also Marvel will no longer publish second printings of the first three issues on the same day of publication, which was always a bit weird.

Midnight launches from comic book stores would have including promotional postcards, exclusive variants, and sets of Empyre pins to be given away. But now it seems, as well as the midnight launches, that the pins are going away. Retailers have been notified by Marvel that the promotional items have been cancelled. Those desperate ae enough can still order these though and maybe pretend.

Empyre #0: Avengers is now planned for June 24th and Empyre#0: Fantastic Four is now planned for July 8th, with #1 on July 15th. Just without the pins. You might also get to see the lined-up creator PR interviews and exclusive first looks for both the main series and tie-ins featured on Comicbook.com, SYFY Wire, Screen Rant, AV Club, CBR, Newsarama and an Empyre State of Mynd column every week on Adventures in Poor Taste.